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By Laura Dale December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 All Posts

Ep 16: CAA’s 2024 Accessibility Retrospective – Ctrl, Alt, Access

00:00 – Intro00:50 – Looking back at the podcast02:00 – Looking back at the accessibility year of 202402:20 – Game Awards 202405:35 – Year of High Contrast Mode07:15 – Year of Cognitive Accessibility12:50 – Year of Audio Description16:30 – Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II19:00 – Indie Games of 202424:40 – More

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By Laura Dale December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 All Posts

2024 Video Game Accessibility End of Year Recap

2024 is finally coming to a close, and as is tradition here on this channel we’re taking some time in December to look back on everything that happened in video game accessibility this past year. It’s a classic end of year recap, aiming to catch you up on a year’s

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By Laura Dale December 6, 2024December 6, 2024 All Posts

Ep 15: GA Conf USA 2024 Panel Discussions – Ctrl, Alt, Access

Took us a month to catch up, but here’s a recap of 16 hours of accessibility talks and panels worth knowing about. 00:00 – Intro02:00 – DAY 102:10 – Update from the industry04:55 – Accessible DOOM mod08:15 – Servers up, Everyone is welcome18:25 – Tourettes IRL22:40 – Developing in the

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By Laura Dale November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 All Posts

Generic Photosensitivity Warnings Protect Liability, Not Users

As someone with an unlimited movie pass, a birthday gift from my lovely wife Jane, I go to my local cinema pretty regularly. However, recently I’ve noticed something new snuck in between the trailers for new movie releases and information about age ratings for the feature film. Seemingly regardless of

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By Laura Dale November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 All Posts

What Is Video Game Accessibility Consulting?

So, if you’ve been following my social media presence the past few weeks, you’re probably aware that I’ve appeared in the credits of a few recent video games for work that I’ve done as a consultant. Specifically, I appeared in the credits of Life is Strange: Double Exposure last month

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By Laura Dale November 21, 2024 All Posts

Ep 14: We’re Tired, and Consulted on More Games! – Ctrl, Alt, Access

Sometimes, fluctuating disabilities mean you have to pivot plans, and that’s okay x 00:00 – Intro03:52 – Arevya played Super Market Simulator, Botany Manor05:30 – Steven Spohn and Mark Barlet are leaving AbleGamers08:40 – FDG 2025 will have the theme “Accessible Worlds, United Through Play”10:35 – Laura and Arevya have

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By Laura Dale November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 All Posts

Board Game Accessibility (Rebellion – Joyride)

I started posting weekly videos and articles under the title Access-Ability almost five years ago now, in January of 2020, and in that time the series has almost exclusively focused on accessibility in video games. At times the series has dabbled in other related topics, such as LGBT and Disability

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By Laura Dale November 8, 2024November 8, 2024 All Posts

Touring Accessibility in Dragon Age: The Veilguard

Hi everyone, LauraKBuzz here, and it’s time for another episode of “Laura gives a disclaimer before she discusses accessibility”. I worked as a Cultural Consultant on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. While I can’t currently be very specific about what work I did on the game, I want to acknowledge that

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By Laura Dale November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 All Posts

Ep 13: An Eventful But Accessible Week in Gaming – Ctrl, Alt, Access

We both had a pretty chaotic time this week if we’re honest haha 00:00 – Intro01:15 – Laura consulted on Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Life is Strange Double Exposure12:12 – Arevya called out SpillExpo19:00 – Arevya talks Mario Party Jamboree,I’m on Observation Duty 7, and Corekeeper25:20 – Laura talks

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By Laura Dale October 24, 2024October 24, 2024 All Posts

Touring Accessibility in Life is Strange: Double Exposure

Hi everyone. My name is Laura Kate Dale, otherwise known as LauraKBuzz, and last week I got to announce that I worked as an accessibility consultant on Life is Strange: Double Exposure. While I can’t publish a traditional accessibility review of this game, due to having a conflict of interest

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By Laura Dale June 4, 2026June 4, 2026 All Posts

Ep 44: Arevya Worked on a Really, Really Cool Game! – Ctrl, Alt, Access

00:00 – Intro00:30 – Arevya went to Nordic Game02:45 – Laura is working on Access Ability Summer Showcase03:50 – Life Below11:03 – Directive 802017:02 – 007 First Light23:40 – PlateUp!26:07 – Pictonico30:13 – Mina the Hollower34:50 – PlayStation Studios Accessibility Community Council37:38 – Ubisoft starts implementing Accessible Games Initiative tags38:18

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