A visually impaired gamer named Alexander Stern is suing Sony, Sony Online Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America for not offering features that make their games accessible for people with visual disabilities.

According to Stern, by not including these options, Sony is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The law suit claims that Stern has written several emails and letters to Sony requesting these features for games – mainly on MMOs – and Sony hasn’t complied. The suit also mentions how other companies, including Blizzard, have allowed the use of mods or other third party programs to incorporate features including visual cues or voice overs for gamers with “disability impaired visual processing”.

A group of researchers at MIT are working on a video game they expect to appeal to a broad audience, including a group that, until now, has been neglected: the visually impaired.

The game, titled AudiOdyssey, is based on matching the rhythm of various audio tracks just as a DJ would. All you need is a good ear. If the player makes a mistake, she/he gets an ugly sound and the crowd will start to demand a good performance. To make things easier and more intuitive they adapted the WiiMote so that the game can be controlled by waving it in time with the beats.

AudiOdyssey is still a prototype but the developers hope the…