Ian Hamilton

Entry window is now open for the Develop:Star awards, includes categories for in-game accessibility, EDI initiative, and supporting star.

Full calendar of all award shows that have an accessibility category - docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

For me, I tend to play a lot of games on easy mode because of my attention disorder, and playing on easy makes me able to play. Either by making "long fights" shorter, enabling me to be more efficient for the whole fight, or to avoid me having to repeat the same section of the game thousand of times

It 100% is!

This week we kick started an accessibility-first game jam with the University of Staffordshire. Central to the students’ game jam challenge is a focus on using our principles document produced specifically for the jam. These principles have now been made public! 👀 www.tencent.com/en-us/media/...

Turns out VVVVVV is still a fun game and very accessible. I really appreciate the constant checkpoints and accessibility features. It's still a great game.

Cc @jmflitcroft.bsky.social

What's the next rung below 'bad'?

Epilepsy Information.pptx EPILEPSY AWARENESS Thank you for checking out my powerpoint! Spreading awareness is so important as a lot of people are still unaware of Epilepsy, including people who work in the medical field. Here ...

I want to give people more accessibility advice I love doing it!
If anyone wants me to look at their game, stream, or anything else and give advice, feel free to ask!

The #1 thing I can help with is photosensitivity, you can find tips here too (slides: 15-17)
tinyurl.com/epilepsypowe...
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In addition to needing to play Pokémon Leaf Green with an accessible controller, having to get my glasses from the other side of the room to play the game on the TV when I did not need them during the GBA era is a reminder of how the need for gaming accessibility will come for us all.

Chad Growler standing at the lectern at State of the Browser 2026 in front of a title slide reading “The plateau of accessibility compliance,” including their name and pronouns (they/them).

Chad Growler speaking in front of a slide stating “You can go your entire career without ever saying the phrase disabled person”; a live captioning screen is visible on the left, State of the Browser 2026.

Chad Growler presenting a slide showing a video game map as an example while standing at the lectern, State of the Browser 2026.

Closing slide reading “What should you take away from this?” with three points: “Recentre disability,” “Context is key,” and “Curate your own guidelines,” presented by Chad Growler at State of the Browser 2026.

With their #SotB25 talk „The Plateau of Accessibility Compliance: Where do we go from here“, Chad Growler @kitation.co.uk doesn’t just - surprisingly - talk about video game #a11y, but challenges us to take disability more seriously. #SotB

2026.stateofthebrowser.com/speaker/chad...

No it isn't. FOV needs to match the perspective lines in your room to avoid inducing simulation sickness. So because viewing distances and screen sizes vary, FOV must be configurable.

strongly disagree, it’s a pretty basic accessibility feature for me in any first-person game, i start feeling sick if the FOV is below 90° :(

Looking through the screenshots on the @steampowered.com Fest demo game pages, there are still a large number with teeny-tiny game text. 😕
Mostly RTS/strategy games, but other genres can still have tiny text. 🧐
#Accessibility

I am absolutely begging more devs to have accessibility options for their games for people with tinnitus and misophonia tbh. Shout out to abiotic factor in particular for letting me turn off eating and puking noises.

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It's an honor to be recognized alongside many talented women in the gaming space. Seeing my knowledge sharing of games accessibility resonate with the industry means so much to me.
If you want to to celebrate the powerful voices nominated this year, please vote now through 3/31/26 bit.ly/tghvoting

I play games in my spare time and love watching the Game Accessibility Conference. #SotB26

It's insulting how games have all these accessibility settings these days and will still go "you aren't allowed to bind 1/5th of the keyboard keys, those keys are just not allowed, yes that even includes the arrow keys"

Ah you misunderstood sorry, you might want to delete and repost. Paralympics actually aren't having one, it's an AbleGamers tournament. The tournament is the first step in AbleGamers' campaign to try to persuade the Paralympics that it would be a good idea for them to do it too.

Yeah definitely, a post covering both that and what the game already had would be awesome, nice quick easy win

also, i've implemented content warnings, so optional dialogue that touches on unexpectedly tough topics and personal difficulties is warned of ahead of time.

Oh! I should probably explain that in a steam post, but here's the run down:

-puzzle elements redrawn to not rely on color differentiation
-expanded accessibility settings to include reduced flashing and hiding of common phobia elements
-fixed a bug with screenshake disabling

Literally none of that is true. cc @jamesbergcanada.bsky.social

It's a dev conference, usually 50% AAA, 25% indie, 25% advocates etc. I organise the lineup for it, that's why I was replying to your old tweet 😁 The lineup is mostly planned out for the April conf but still always looking for ideas of talks that might slot in somewhere as things inevitably evolve

Esoteric Ebb key art with a knight holding a broken sword. Behind them is a cleric with a yellow orb in their hand and a nervous green goblin looking at mushrooms.

Options menu showing dialogue text size, dialogue fonts, UI size, colorblind mode, audio sliders, and visual quality options.

In-game screenshot showing contextual outlines on a rock, auto-save feature, and choices of interacting with the rock.

Esoteric Ebb is a CRPG for DnD fans! And yes, you can ruin your DM's day. 😉

The game features UI resizing, custom font choices, text resizing, colorblind mode, and much more to ensure you roll a nat 20...or 1 and blow everything up. That can happen too.

store.steampowered.com/app/2057760/...

Hey there! We found a game that has adjustable text sizes! 😁 Check it out! 👇

bsky.app/profile/able...

"you're saying that autism is worse than polio" is an excellent take

Oh nice! Likewise I won't be either, signed off from the USA for the foreseeable

a man with a beard says i 'm right here Alt: Bobby Singer of Supernatural yelling "I'm right here, ya idjit" at Sam

I wouldn't exist without being autistic (AuDHD). The meatsuit would be here, but I wouldn't be *me*.

I can accept bigotry from anti-vax, they're idjits.

But the rest of y'all? Argue the science, but please stop skipping past your assumptions that it would be better if I didn't exist. Please? /3

a man in a black shirt is making a funny face while sitting at a table in a dark room . Alt: Malcolm Reynolds of Firefly trying to say something, but is visibly flustered as he gestures with his hand. The gesturing ends with his head in his hand as he looks dispirited and resigned

First, understand you're indirectly saying autism is worse than measles, polio, Covid, hep-B, etc.

If vax cause autism, shouldn't folks still vax? That argument is ~never made.

Second, the unquestioned assumption that eugenics preventing autism is a good thing. Folks only argue about the cause. /2

An Oregon Trail video game death screen, with text reading "You have died from listening to RFK JR"

2 questions for society, not just anti-vaxxers, then I'll explain:

1. Why is being autistic worse than what you'd get vaccinated for?

2. Why is 'curing' (ie preventing) autism a presumed good?

Every conversation about this focuses on vaccines not causing autism. That follows the science, sure. /1