Ep 16: CAA's 2024 Accessibility Retrospective - Ctrl, Alt, Access

Ctrl, Alt, Access

Ctrl, Alt, Access reaches the end of its first year. Let's look back on a year of accessibility updates. 00:00 – Intro 00:50 – Looking back at the podcast 02:00 – Looking back at the accessibility year of 2024 02:20 – Game Awards 2024 05:35 – Year of High Contrast Mode 07:15 – Year of Cognitive Accessibility 12:50 – Year of Audio Description 16:30 – Senua's Saga: Hellblade II 19:00 – Indie Games of 2024 24:40 – More Accessibility controllers 27:15 – Year of Remakes 29:45 – What we look forward to in 2025 30:11 – What we hope Nintendo will bring with Switch 2 31:05 – Audio Description outside cut scenes 31:50 – PS Access Controller for PC 34:05 – Nintendo have Co-controller support and Accessibility tags in store 35:00 – Access Controllers work on all consoles 35:50 – Mental Health as the sixth accessibility category 38:20 – Tone indicators in games and BSL in captions 40:40 – Communication accessibility 45:20 – "Design for ever gamer" and "Best practise in gaming" for blind gamers 46:50 – IRIS plugin 48:00 – Where to find us