Smilegate signs MOU with Korea Creative Content Agency to develop game accessibility improvement research for the visually impaired
Jul 02, 2025
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Smilegate announced on the 1st that it has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Korea Creative Content Agency to develop guidelines for improving access to games for the visually-deaf.
The two companies decided to secure specific information on the expected level and demand of the visually-deaf people to improve their access to games and the process of using games, and conduct research that will serve as the basis for the development of strategies in the game industry and the improvement of the government's policies and systems to improve actual accessibility. Through this, we build a guideline for an implementable range.
It also said that it plans to discover real cases of improving accessibility to the visually-audibly disabled and establish a consensus in the game industry before confirming sustainability. As a cooperative organization, Smilegate will actively cooperate by consulting and sharing information on the overall research and providing empirical-based cases. It is also marked as a cooperative organization in the official research report published by the Korea Creative Content Agency. In addition, the two sides agreed to cooperate with each other to promote voluntary participation in the industry, such as holding report-related presentations and forums after the end of the research period.
Smilegate Diversity-Inclusion Chief Executive Officer (CDIO) Baek Min-jeong said "Game accessibility is one of the key strategies to connect more diverse users and markets"We hope that practical guidelines will be developed through this study, leading to an improvement in the level of accessibility across the industry and the spread of an inclusive development culture"
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
