In a press release issued Thursday, San Francisco-based Twitch introduced they’ve made “vital steps to assist all creators and customers in our group via improved Twitch merchandise” in an effort to make their platform extra accessible and inclusive to all. These steps embrace instruments and assets for customers and staff alike.

“‘You’re already one among us’ is so core to our values that it greets everybody getting into our most important foyer in huge neon letters at our San Francisco headquarters. To us, this doesn’t simply imply players and creatives; it’s for everybody, regardless of their pursuits, background, or skill,” the corporate stated.

Along with the schedule of streamers with disabilities Twitch highlighted on International Accessibility Consciousness Day, one other notable point out is the launch of the company-wide Accessibility Statement that Twitch says “affirm our dedication to each accessibility and inclusive design.”

Twitch additionally shared particulars on initiatives created internally to assist staff with disabilities. One such useful resource group is known as the Entry Capability Guild. Guild co-founder Joanne Soo, a senior product supervisor, commented on this system: “As an individual born with a incapacity, I’ve lived via many hurdles which have hampered my profession progress and social life,” she stated. “I co-founded this guild as a result of it touches a really deep a part of my id, and I needed to create a platform to assist other people at Twitch discover a group that may assist them in order that they don’t have to undergo the identical struggles I did.”

The corporate additionally encourages customers to help with maintaining the platform accessible by using their Stream Closed Captioner software, which permits customers so as to add captions to their streams for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

This yr marked the primary time Twitch celebrated International Accessibility Consciousness Day—and it received’t be the final.

“[It’s] time to maintain going. We’ll proceed creating documentation, working to appropriate and forestall technical errors, internet hosting future empathy classes, and spotlighting streamers with disabilities in order that we will be certain that regardless of your skill, you’ve received a spot on Twitch.”