Cameron “Oak” Akitt

A black hard-shell suitcase lies flat on a beige textured blanket. The suitcase is covered in colorful stickers of different shapes and designs, including geometric patterns, cartoon characters, Japanese text, space-themed art, and gaming references. The stickers are spread across the front surface, giving the suitcase a playful and personalized look.

In love with the direction my cabin bag is taking. We get so many stickers at work, I never wanted them on my laptop as that get refreshed every so often so I thought they could decorate my bag instead for when I travel with work! 🛫

This is very cool!

Paragons! 🤟🏻

Interesting, the feed is a little chaotic and a scan through didn’t did up too much in the ways of games accessibility but a cool resource! Thanks for sharing it!

Hopefully folks will have personal recommendations for each others work to help me get more contributor’s on my radar 🤟🏻

🕯️Summoning the Games Accessibility Hive Mind🕯️

I’m looking to broaden my radar when it comes to folks doing brilliant accessibility work in and around games, so who should I be paying attention to?

Tag people you admire. Plug your own work. Share names, links and stories. I’m here for all of it!

Really?!

God, please tell me it was positive! 🤣

Photo of stage at develop. The presentation reads: “Games Accessibility: 6 tips from concept to postlaunch”

Thank you to all the lovely folks who joined me talk at #develop

Hopefully there was a little something for everyone to take away and try! 🤟🏻

Happy Disability Pride Month! 🤟🏻

A box of “Lancashire Tea”

Pretty sure this means the war of the roses it back on.

Baine Bloodhoof, a Tauren from the game World of Warcraft holds up a spear from which a rainbow flag is hung. “No life is worth living if we cannot be true to our nature” - Baine Bloodhoof

Happy Pride Month!

I always like to think about this quote from Baine Bloodhoof over Pride:

“No life is worth living if we cannot be true to our nature.”

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

#Pride #PrideMonth #WorldOfWarcraft

Video Alt: The player character walks towards another character stood beside a car. In the bottom right of the screen a Deaf actor uses BSL to sign their conversation.

Character selection screen in Forza Horizon 5. There are a range of different amplification options. Right side hearing aids with a colourful and vibrant Mexican street art design are selected and appear on the player character to the right of the screen.

A car as driving along a road. Subtitle at the bottom say “The whole festival is talking about you. If you can meet me down at the Festival, we’ll talk about what you want to do next.” Within the subtitles the words “talking about you” and “meet me down at the Festival” are in bold, making them easier to read at a glance.

Forza Horzion 5 was the first AAA I consulted on. Keyword highlighting in subtitles and stylish hearing aids to British and American Sign Language!! 🤩

Seeing it come to PlayStation makes me really happy, the team at Playground Games really made something incredible!

Gaming is for everyone! 🤟🏻

This is a great review of the feature, and I'm really excited to learn about the ways it's benefiting other players!

Technical Accessibility Designer (Contract) at Sony Playstation We welcome and encourage everyone who has a passion and curiosity for innovation, technology, and play to explore our open positions and join our growing global team.

Looking for a job in Games Accessibility? Santa Monica Studio is seeking a Technical Accessibility Designer for the development of a new unannounced title!

Good luck, potential future work buddies!

gamejobs.co/Technical-Ac...

A screenshot from the new Audio Focus menu. "Make soft sounds clearer when using headphones. Select the type of audio you want to amplify, and adjust the level" Focus type is selected in the menu, with the "Boost Voices" option highlighted. It reads "Amplify voice chats, character voices and other middle-frequency sounds".

Really excited to see the introduction of Audio Focus on the PS5!

Audio focus provides presets to amplify sounds to meet your hearing preferences, such as "Boost Voices" and "Boost Quiet Sounds".

d/Deaf & Hard of Hearing gamers, let me know how you find it! 🤟

What a wonderful couple of days at the Games Accessibility Conference!

Thank you to the organisers, and to all my fellow speakers for taking the time to share your insights and wisdom. There really is one light of accessibility, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. 🤟🏻

Designed graphic with oil slick rainbow effect and fluting background. There is an image of the cover art for Astro Bot and the BAFTA Games Awards logo sits in the top left hand corner. The text reads ‘Best Game Winner: Astro Bot Development Team‘

Last up it’s the award for Best Game which this year goes to… Astro Bot 🏆 #BAFTAGamesAwards

Banner Graphic for Develop: Brighton 8-10 July 2025 Develop:Brighton Insight : Inspiration : Networking I'm a Speaker! Early Bird Available Now

Excited to share that I'll be speaking at Develop:Brighton 2025!

My talk is: "Games Accessibility: 6 Tips from Concept to Postlaunch"

You can read more about my session here: www.developconference.com/speakers/cam...

#ImASpeaker @developconference.com

Not long to go until #GAconf! Which of you lovely people will I be seeing there?

Really love the range of Accessibility settings present at first bootflow during Atomfall, and their presentation!

Also, the How To Play guide is so cool. Like reading game manuals back in the day! 😍

Huge congratulations to @cariwatterton.bsky.social and all the amazing devs at Rebellion! ✌🏻

Can’t wait to give my first GAconf talk! 🤟🏻

Cameron smiling at the camera pointing at a neon magnemite light.

For Valentine’s Day the very lovely @joemg14.bsky.social got me the perfect gift!

This is an excellent Magnemite 😍

Congrats to everyone at Housemarque on the announcement!! 💙

I’m biased, but that was one hell of a State of Play! I don’t know when I’ll find time to play everything 😭

Huge congratulations to everyone at Housemarque on the cinematic announcement of Saros! 💙

Congratulations!

#GAconf (igda-gasig). Advancing accessibility for disabled players. Hybrid online & Pullman St Pancras, London, April 14th-15th 2025

The next edition of GAconf will be at the Pullman St Pancras Hotel, London, on April 14th & 15th. And hybrid, also free to attend online.

Two days of talks and networking on accessibility for disabled players. Registration now open at GAconf.com!

#accessibility #gamedev

Alt: A Helldivers Fast Recon Vehicle lands where a Jump Pack is about to land. As the jump pack deploys it flips the car when then bursts into flames.

I’ve never had so much go so wrong so quickly…

#Helldivers #Helldivers2

I think it is!