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Some people prefer to control player characters with the keyboard characters W, A, S, and D, and others prefer to use arrow keys. Be sure to include both options. Note: It's vital that you consider all of your users when programming. If you write code that works only for you, it's very likely that you'll be the only one who uses your application. More importantly, if you seek out a job writing code for money, you are expected to write code that works for everyone. I highlighted the next sentence: Giving your users choices, such as the option to use either arrow keys or WASD (it's called accessibility), is a sign of a good programmer.

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Some people prefer to control player characters with the keyboard characters W, A, S, and D, and others prefer to use arrow keys. Be sure to include both options. Note: It's vital that you consider all of your users when programming. If you write code that works only for you, it's very likely that you'll be the only one who uses your application. More importantly, if you seek out a job writing code for money, you are expected to write code that works for everyone. I highlighted the next sentence: Giving your users choices, such as the option to use either arrow keys or WASD (it's called *accessibility*), is a sign of a good programmer.
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13 barn owls in a trenchcoat (hauntedowlbear@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 28-Dec-2023 01:36:18 JST 13 barn owls in a trenchcoat

I'm not here to dunk on specific tutorial writers, as the piece about PyGame that I found this in is both pretty old and generally okay at its job, but offering a choice between WASD and arrow keys really isn't what I'd consider to be an example of accessibility.
Further, the way they defined WASD in the code examples that follow would make their directional control schema entirely useless on non-QWERTY keyboards.
Like, absolutely, yes, encourage new developers to consider that not everyone's configuration is the same as their own.
But this kind of feels like the concept of accessibility is being missold here.

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