Mattel163 Drops Colourblind-Friendly Update ‘Beyond Colors’ In Skip-Bo Mobile, UNO! Mobile And Phase 10: World Tour

Mattel163 is making a significant move toward inclusivity with a great update designed to make popular card games more accessible for everyone. They’re rolling out colourblind-friendly decks for UNO! Mobile, Phase 10: World Tour and Skip-Bo Mobile, with the new feature called Beyond Colors.What Is Beyond Colors?This update is a thoughtful enhancement for the roughly 300 million people around the world who have colour blindness. They’ve revamped traditional card colours by representing them with distinct shapes like squares and triangles. All players can clearly distinguish between different cards now.If you want to activate the Beyond Colors feature in Phase 10: World Tour, Skip-Bo Mobile and UNO! Mobile, it’s pretty straightforward. Simply tap your avatar in the game, navigate to your account settings and enable the Beyond Colors deck under card theme options.For Beyond Colors, Mattel163 collaborated with gamers who have colour blindness to make sure these new symbols are effective and user-friendly. This initiative is part of Mattel’s broader commitment to accessibility. They’re on a mission to make 80% of their games colourblind accessible by 2025.For the update, Mattel163 along with experts in colour vision deficiency and the global gaming community has worked on solutions like patterns, tactile clues and symbols. It helped them ensure that colour wasn’t the only way to tell the cards apart.The shapes used in Beyond Colors are consistent across Phase 10: World Tour, Skip-Bo Mobile and UNO! Mobile. So, once you get the hang of them in one game, you’re good to go in the others. So, go ahead and check out these games on the Google Play Store: UNO! Mobile, Phase 10: World Tour and Skip-Bo Mobile.And before leaving, do check out some of our other recent news. Japanese Rhythm Game Kamitsubaki City Ensemble Drops Soon On Android.