Add another showcase to your calendar folks. The Access Ability Summer Showcase for 2024 has been announced. It is a showcase featuring “recently released and upcoming video games made by disabled game developers, and featuring accessibility settings and design choices aimed to help ensure more disabled gamers are able to play.”
The showcase will air live on Friday 7 June at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific, 4pm UK time.
The showcase is designed to give everyone watching a full breakdown of the accessibility settings on offer in each game so that gamers will know that they’ll be able to know for sure that a game is designed with them in mind. You can watch last year’s showcase below:
Although we’ve seen huge strides in making games more accessible to everyone in recent years, the accessibility options in games often varies wildly from game to game, even from the same developers, so it’s important to celebrate good examples of accessibility in games. The hope being that more and more games will do their best to make games accessible to everyone.
Keeping some surprises for the show, it has been announced that there will be games coming from Whitethorn Games, PlayTonic and Fiction Factory Games. They’ll also be giving away game keys for Rainbow Billy: The Curse of Leviathan.
The Access-Ability Summer Showcase 2024 will be aired live on Twitch.TV/LauraKBuzz, as well as published as a YouTube Premiere on Youtube.com/LauraKBuzz.
ASL, BSL, and Audio Described versions of the presentation will also be available at the same time.
The showcase will be hosted by Laura Kate Dale, a disabled gamer, accessibility consultant, and host of weekly youTube show Access-Ability, where she discusses ways that video games can improve accessibility for disabled players.
I’m very much looking forward to seeing what is revealed at the Access Ability Showcase, gaming is such a great source of joy that everyone should be able to experience it.
