Welcome to Ctrl, Alt, Access, a new video / audio Podcast series hosted by LauraKBuzz and Arevya, a pair of accessibility consultants and advocates, discussing video game accessibility news and opinions. Join us every other Thursday for an hour of news and opinions, alongside guests, and contributions from listeners and

Around four months ago, in early December 2023, PlayStation officially released the Access Controller, an accessibility focused input device featuring a circular design, customisable buttons around the outer edge, a large analogue stick, and input ports for external accessibility switches and buttons. I first got to go hands on with

Mollie is a disabled content creator and DEI advocate. Her work focuses on pushing for inclusivity within the gaming space and industry, being incredibly vocal of how games themselves can be a better representation of the gaming community as a whole. Mollie can be found on Twitter at @littlemotac_ Within

All direct-feed gameplay footage in this video review was, unless otherwise stated, captured using a single PlayStation Access Controller during gameplay, using no additional input switches. Gameplay footage where I’m on camera was captured using a combination of up to two Access Controllers and a Dualsense. Originally announced back at

Last week, I got to spend seven hours trying out PlayStation 5’s new Access Controller at a press event that took place in London, and I have a LOT of complicated thoughts about how it compares to the other major accessibility controllers available in the console space. My name is

The very first episode of Access-Ability, back before this was a weekly recurring segment with its own series name, was published three years ago, in January of 2020, and since then a lot has changed for the better with regards to accessibility in the video game industry. While there’s still

So, another year is now over, and with the new video game releases basically finished until 2023, we here at Access-Ability thought that we should get with the times, and organise our own accessibility focused Game of the Year Accessibility Awards show. While this year’s awards will be focused largely

https://www.eurogamer.net/why-dont-we-talk-more-about-cognitive-accessibility I was recently interviewed by Eurogamer as part of this article about cognative accessibility and video games. As someone whose disabilities often impact memory and mental processing, a lot of the accessibility tools I value are often not thought of as acessibility tools at all.

I was not a formal accessibility consultant on Wayward Strand, but I was still able to help improve the game’s accessibility settings all the same. In Wayward Strand, an indie game which just released at the time of posting this article, players take on the role of a 14 year

Often, when I publish episodes of Access-Ability, I’ll get someone either in the YouTube comments, or on Twitter, responding to the episode by saying something like “this is really interesting, but doesn’t affect me personally”. That’s not necessarily surprising, but I think it overlooks the fact that for many people, your current level of gaming ability will not last forever, and accessibility support that doesn’t impact you today may in the future.

While the overall industry has been making positive strides forward in terms of more games becoming more accessible, as an industry we can’t so much as guarantee a game will definitely feature accurate subtitling for deaf and hard of hearing players, let alone any consistent application of more intensive accessibility support.