Public Critique

UA-Chess has gained positive public critique from several sources. More specifically, it was:

• nominated for the final jury decision of the European Design for All Awards set by the European Commission, in the category "AT/Culture, Leisure and Sport";
• listed at the OneSwitch.org.uk web site, which provides resources for moderate to severely learning/physically disabled people, and described as a "highly accessible Chess game";
• listed at the PCS Games web site in a web page entitled "Fantastic Games and where to find them, accessible for the blind";
• presented in the Newsletter of Accessibility Interest Group by PurpleTop of March 2005 in the section entitled "Sites of Interest" with the following short description: "UA Chess is an accessible chess game with a variety of features including sole mouse, or keyboard (or any type of switches emulating keystrokes) or speech recognition input, including an inbuilt screen reader";
• ranked 10th (out of 45 entries) at the One Switch Competition organized by the Retro Remakes web site with a score of 86/100 and received the following review comments: "UA Chess is a brave move at making a game as accessible as it possibly can be, supporting more control methods than a thing with a lot of control methods. It is of course, no more and no less than chess at the end of the day and despite being a fantastic game in its own right, its also not the most accessible of games requiring a great deal of thought, knowledge of rules, moves etc... but nonetheless UA Chess is a very impressive piece of work.";
• suggested in BBC's "Ouch" website, in an article entitled "Ouch Guide to ... Switch Gaming" by Barrie Ellis as a "highly accessible chess game".