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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. Every successive year the games industry has been embracing it to ever greater levels.

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A common question around accessibility is where to start. What to concentrate on if you’re late in development, have limited resources, aren’t familiar with the topic. I’ve often seen developers paralysed by this, wanting to do good work but overwhelmed by the possibilities and worry of getting it wrong. 

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No GAconf this time around as it has shifted to September in Seattle, but there are still loads of great accessibility happenings over the course of GDC week.

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2019 was a year of huge change in the accessibility field, with progress across every corner of the industry – post on that coming soon. But public discourse was dominated by just a few topics – text size, difficulty options (and off the back of that how accessibility relates to creative vision), and subtitling.

Below are a few things gamers and developers have said over the year that stood out for me, covering those topics but also some others too. It’s a long page, but an easy read. Some of these quotes are inspiring, some are thought provoking, some have practical advice – and some are a wake-up call.

It’s also a handy list of awesome people to follow on twitter!

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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. Every year the games industry has been embracing it to ever greater levels.

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Only a few game related sessions at CSUN this year, though some great material being covered –

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Every year the pace of chance accelerates. 2017 saw advances on a scale never before seen, and 2018 trumped that by considerable margin. I hope this post will share a sense of that change, of where the industry is currently at, and where it will be heading in future.

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Yet another record breaking year for the number of accessibility sessions and events that 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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2018 was a vintage year for inclusion of gamers with disabilities, with all kinds of lovely firsts.

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This year Develop made a specific call for submissions on accessibility and inclusion. The result of that is a record breaking year for Develop, a huge increase in the amount of disability related sessions, covering a wide range of topics.

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