Global Accessibility Awareness Day is an event that takes place in May every year, a day aimed at getting people talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility.
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May 2017
The rapidly changing landscape of accessibility for blind gamers
May 17, 2017 | 0 Comments
May 18th is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD), so as part of that I’d like to shed a little light on some recent advances in the field of accessibility for blind gamers.
Accessibility for blind gamers has been a difficult area for the games industry. And under-served audience who want content, developers who want to offer it, yet often an unnecessary technical barrier between. That is finally starting to change.
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Feb 2017
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Game accessibility at GDC 2017
February 5, 2017 | Comments Closed
A nice selection of sessions and events are taking place over the course of GDC week this year, both at the conference itself and at other fringe events.
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Feb 2017
Game accessibility at CSUN17
February 4, 2017 | 0 Comments
CSUN16 was a record year for the number of game related sessions, but CSUN17 has upped the game again.
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Dec 2016
Game accessibility quotes of 2016
December 30, 2016 | 0 Comments
2016 has been a momentous year for accessibility. Not just in the advancements that have been made, but also important because of the things that have been said, and the people who have been saying them. This post is a compilation of some of my favourite accessibility quotes from the year.
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Oct 2016
VR & accessibility
October 31, 2016 | 0 Comments
Virtual reality brings some fantastic opportunities for people with disabilities. New experiences, therapeutic benefits, even accessibility for people who have better head control than hand control. But it also brings considerable new barriers, with great potential to lock people out from these benefits.
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Jun 2016
An exciting month in accessibility
June 19, 2016 | 0 Comments
Accessibility in gaming is never a dull field to be working in, the pace of change is ever accelerating. So often I find myself thinking what an incredible month it has been, topping anything that has gone before. The past month – mid May to mid June – has been no exception.
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May 2016
GAAD quotes
May 20, 2016 | 2 Comments
Through the course of this year’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day there were all kinds of great things said about accessibility in gaming. These are a few of my favourites. Continue Reading →
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May 2016
Global Accessibility Awareness Day
May 20, 2016 | 1 Comment
May 19th’s Global Accessibility Awareness Day is an an annual event ‘to get people talking, thinking and learning about digital accessibility and users with different disabilities’. It runs across all industries, and this year saw a big increase in the game industry’s involvement. Continue Reading →
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Apr 2016
GDC16′s accessibility sessions
April 6, 2016 | 0 Comments
This year’s GDC Vault (video archive from the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco) is now up, meaning that recordings of several of the accessibility talks are now freely available online. Continue Reading →