@cariwatterton
Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales. Witch who crafts, making games with my partner in crime and owns an unhealthy amount of board games. Has a black cat called Toothless.
The game achieved an awful lot but there are limits. Steve Saylor can play and did a review, but gamers totally without sight like SightlessKombat need sighted assistance.
Just make sure to check the full features list to see if it has what you need: atomfall.com/accessibility (or Steve’s review!)
I want a big team hug 😂
Just how many games there were across all these award categories and the fact a AA category was viable just proves how much work studios are doing for accessibility!
Huge congratulations to everyone, and yes this has made my year a little bit 😅🖤
An enormous amount of work and effort went into this - I’m so incredibly proud and humbled 🖤
To me there are so many puzzle pieces that make up holistic accessibility, and one of those is actually informing players how your game can support them. More accessibility trailers please! 👏
So pleased for you!! Incredible work ☺️
Incredibly well deserved, huge congrats!! Keep doing amazing things 🖤☺️
BSLGG launched today, a community-led initiative to create a glossary of gaming specific terms in British Sign Language (BSL).
@bslgg.bsky.social aims to help Deaf gamers, game developers, and BSL interpreters more effectively communicate gaming terms and names.
caniplaythat.com/2026/01/06/b...
Thank you for being on top of the promo 🥳
Come chat navigating accessibility with @cariwatterton.bsky.social and me this March at GDC!
schedule.gdconf.com/session/acce...
This is free to submit to, and includes an accessibility category 👀 Get on it people!
#indiedev #accessibility
SURPRISE! A new Keeper update just dropped with some EXCITING features!
🖤 NOIR MODE 🖤
A custom-tuned black & white experience!
⬅️ ULTRAWIDE SUPPORT➡️
For maximum immersion!
👁️ HIGH CONTRAST MODE 👁️
Accessibility options for players with vision impairments!
More Info: youtu.be/watch?v=Qhyf...
Marking International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Electronic Arts adds eight more accessibility patents to their patent pledge today, making them free to use. They also open sourced colorblind simulation filters for their accessibility tool Fonttik.
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Today’s Community Soapbox highlight features @sightlesskombat.com, an award winning, multi-credited accessibility consultant and gamer without sight.
Unsurprisingly, his biggest barriers involve gaming independently with no sight at all.
caniplaythat.com/2025/11/27/s...
interested in reading how someone with cognitive and mobility related disabilities plays games? check out my Community Soapbox segment on the Can I Play That! huge thanks to @abitofaccess.com for including me in this fantastic series! #GameAccessibility #GameA11y #DisabledGamer #Accessibility
Yes!! For me, the overwhelming feeling of being able to actually parry in JEDI: Survivor after not being able to do it the whole of Fallen Order 🥹🖤
The talk videos from our event - @ga11ygathering.bsky.social - are up! Huge thanks to the wonderful speakers, sponsors, and volunteers who made it all possible 🖤
Really excited for this and the first four interviews are all incredibly informative and approachable.
I can see this series being a great way to introduce someone to accessibility in games through the stories and experiences of players with lived experience. Thank you to all the contributors ☺️
😞 it’s a shame for such a cute game!
Exactly! And yea quest markers are a huge help! And especially in larger games that you have to play across many days/weeks/months.
In my experience good level design is an organic helper too, with clear points of interest and different visuals for different zones to help break it down.
Yea if it hadn’t been a super short game I think I would’ve but it down, but at least with it being ~8 hours it meant I could play it across a few days and keep the routes fresh in my mind. Got lost so often though 🥲
I still finished the game as I enjoyed the cosy vibe, simple gameplay, and charming narrative. But I’d love to see some extra features added to reduce barriers and enable more people to enjoy it too 🖤❄️
This review mentions “high contrast scenery” but don’t mistake it for high contrast mode. The art style is beautiful, but often very hard to tell an interactive object from a static one, which resulted in me getting stuck for ages because I hadn’t realised I could destroy a thing to open a new path…
I finished this game and enjoyed it, but sadly lacking in some areas of accessibility for me.
This review mentions the lack of quest markers and map - both things that greatly support my memory and cognition. It also flared up my pain in my hands from a lot of movement and taps/holds…
The GAconf Awards (@gaconf.bsky.social) return for its fourth edition, recognizing and celebrating the efforts made in game accessibility across 20 categories in 2025.
Voting is now open to the public, and closes November 30th. Winners will be announced in January.
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Huge congratulations to every single developer, consultant and team member in the nominees. I hope you’re all incredibly proud!
It’s great to see my boss, Tülay, nominated for the incredible work she does and the Stumble team for their wheelchair cosmetic. 🖤
And to my old family on Atomfall 🍻🖤
Just me causing havoc as usual 🙄
For this Indie Spotlight Marijn played An Unplayable Game?!
Limited controls and a few assists turn this free game into a thoughtful exercise in accessible game design. Showing that accessibility isn't about removing challenge, but making it possible.
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Free UK game accessibility conference coming up in a few weeks!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-access...
#gamedev #accessibility
Games for Blind Gamers 5 starts Feb 2026! Our community supports developers in making games accessible through planning and research. Join the jam and the challenge! itch.io/jam/games-fo... #GameJam #GameDev #Accessibility #BlindGaming #IndieDev #AudioGames #A11y
Just played this myself and that Timing Assist feature is completely new to me. What a great feature! I hope other games learn from this and iterate on it, I definitely want to see it again.