Laura Dale

Toward the end of last week, I took a few days outside of the Access-Ability offices to travel to EGX, a consumer facing video game convention taking place at the Excel Centre in London. While much of the event was focused on demo booths for small indie projects and upcoming

Emulation is a form of accessibility, that much is a fact, but it’s one that’s often difficult to discuss, because conversations about video game emulation often, if not always, devolve into discussions of the moral arguments for, or against, software pircacy. For most gamers without disabilities, the only reasons to

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

Back in May of 2022, we got news that God of War: Ragnarok, the sequel to 2018’s God of War reboot, would be launching with more than 60 accessibility settings options, when it releases a few months from now on November 9th. While the initial news drop from Sony was

Up until a couple of weeks ago, if you were to check the highest rated section in any VR game storefront, VRChat would have appeared very near the top of your search results. The game, which is more a series of social spaces than a traditional video game, allows players

Below is a transcript of a recent conversation between Laura Dale and Steve Saylor. The transcript appears below unedited, as per our video discussion. [Laura Dale] Hello everyone and welcome to a supplemental little video for Access-Ability. We’ve got a, we’ve got a guest here today. Who’s our wonderful guest

Originally released for the PlayStation 3 back in June 2013, The Last of Us tells the story of Joel, a father whose daughter died during the first night of a zombie-like outbreak, trying to help Ellie, a girl with seeming immunity to the spreading plague, to cross the United States

When it comes to directly comparing all three of the major console manufacturers, and the steps that they’re taking with regards to improving accessibility in video games, I think it’s fair to say that Nintendo is by quite a wide margin making the slowest progress on standardising accessibility support on

When Microsoft released the Xbox Adaptive Controller almost four years ago, it marked the first time a mainstream console manufacturer had made a push for a console to officially support an accessibility controller that was affordable and modular. Supporting 3.5mm connector and USB ports for connecting peripherals, the controller allowed

When The Last of Us 2 originally released back in the summer of 2020, the game saw critical praise for the way it handled accessibility. The game not only managed to cover best practices for accessibility across the board, but it also introduced several new and exciting accessibility settings rarely