Ep 16: CAA's 2024 Accessibility Retrospective - Ctrl, Alt, Access
21Ctrl, 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