Global Accessibility Awareness Day is event that takes place on the third Thursday of every May, with the goal of raising awareness about digital accessibility. For many years now the games industry has been embracing it.

In 2025 this has continued again. Some of the efforts are not public knowledge, companies holding private internal initiatives, individuals sending emails around their teams, and so on. But many are public knowledge.

If you’d like to get involved but haven’t planned anything, it’s not too late! Even just sharing your favourite talk or article with your followers or colleagues makes a difference. Here are two great links to share:

Playlist of GAconf talks by disabled people talking about their lived experience

Free game accessibility training, an online course developed by Microsoft

As the day goes on I’ll be updating this page and trying to keep track of as much as I can, but there will be some that I have missed. Drop me a line on twitter if you know of anything that isn’t on here yet!

Ian Hamilton

The 8th annual GAAD game accessibility trivia quiz
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Keywords

Collection of resources
https://x.com/KeywordsStudios/status/1921868358237962486

Sony

History of PS5 & accessibility, from launch to 2025
https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/accessibility-and-ps5-our-history-of-features-from-launch-to-2025/

Twitch

Dragon Games PVP D&D showdown
https://x.com/stevesaylor/status/1922012610611876299

And a couple of quotes to finish on –