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- Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools
- The screen reader is SteamOS only; most other features are also coming to Big Picture Mode.
- The screen reader is SteamOS only; most other features are also coming to Big Picture Mode.
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- Jun 19, 2025, 1:00 PM UTC
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- Adi Robertson
- is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011.
- Valve is introducing accessibility features for players with disabilities in its latest beta for Steam Big Picture Mode and SteamOS. The features — listed in full and
- explained here
- — include options to modify the Steam UI, like a high contrast mode, as well as a built-in screen reader for SteamOS.
- In its post, Valve describes the features as “just the first accessibility features we’re making available.” For now players on both Big Picture Mode and SteamOS will get:
- A scaling slider for text size
- High-contrast mode to make buttons and text more visible
- A “reduce motion” toggle that disables some animation and screen transition effects
- SteamOS devices (at this point, the Steam Deck and Lenovo Legion Go S) can also find:
- A screen reader with adjustable pitch, volume, and reading rate, enabled and disabled either through settings or with a two-button shortcut
- A color filter that affects both the Steam UI and any games you’re playing — you can choose between grayscale, inverted display brightness, or inverted display colors
- The features are available on a new Accessibility tab in the settings, seen below for SteamOS.
- This is the SteamOS version — Big Picture won’t get the color filter or screen reader.
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- Earlier this month Valve also
- started letting Steam users
- filter games by accessibility support — including some options similar to the ones above, as well as adjustable difficulty and speech-to-text or text-to-speech chat. It’s encouraging players with disabilities to suggest more features in
- a discussion thread
- (a mono audio toggle is looking popular.) And for anyone who doesn’t need these features, while I haven’t been able to try the beta yet, it sounds like might all be getting a bare-bones universal
- Kurosawa mode
- .
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