Steam is testing new accessibility options for Steamos, such as UI zoom

Valve today released a new Steam client beta, which focuses on adding accessibility options on PCs and Steamos on handheld PCs, such as Lenovo Legion Go S and Steam Deck.

Specifically, it adds a UI zoom option for high contrast modes and reduced motion switching as well as other screen reader and color filter settings. These options are now available in the Accessibility submenu, which is now part of the settings menus for Steamos and Big Tuperation Mode. The following image fully shows what this new menu looks like. With these additions, Valve now recommends Steam users who need features such as screen readers to use large picture mode instead of standard Steam clients.

Steamos will specifically see specific benefits from screen readers and color filter updates. For screen readers, players will now be able to adjust their pitch, speed, and volume and always hear every item it reads out is highlighted. Meanwhile, there are now some filters called grayscale, inverting brightness and inverting colors, which one can use to adjust the way steam and the way steam and game is displayed when using Steamos.

All of these features are still part of the Steam client beta at the moment, and when Valve quits exactly, Valve is not shared yet. It works to improve accessibility options on Steam and tease “These new settings are just the first availability of accessibility features we are dealing with,” he said. In the blog post. Steam also adds tools to enable game developers Highlight accessibility features In their game.