Right, in about an hour I'm gonna be doing some live co-working on the @manycatsstudios.bsky.social twitch. Help me get my work done by being my own personal panopticon ✨

A couple of table top game designers came together to build an open-source colour identification system that is colorblind friendly. It uses symbols and color theory. For example: the symbol for green is a mix of the one for yellow and blue. colorsym.com/#

Another successful year of Impact - Three years and counting!! Follow these amazing folks!!

As with many others, you'll find me at Develop Conference in Brighton next week, plying my accessibility trade with the rest of the @manycatsstudios.bsky.social crew, speaking professionally and generally being a grown up... allegedly.

Okay y'all, so about that whole thing where indie games are supposed to keep the games industry alive while AAA melts.... We really need to figure some way for indie game devs to get money DURING the process and not after. I have been working three jobs (including the game) for over two years now.

The irony of perimenopausal breakouts of zits is likely what has been getting me carded/IDd in the supermarket for CBD sleepy drinks is not lost on me.

Please follow all the Cohort members! @memopotato.bsky.social @lozzagilbert.bsky.social @magnemiteboy.bsky.social @shazshanghari.bsky.social @laurakbuzz.bsky.social & Mikey "Too Cool for BluSky" Starovoytov

Another successful year of Impact - Three years and counting!! Follow these amazing folks!!

Our Low Vision #Accessibility Review of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is live! We test @ubisoft.com 's new game to see if all that shines is gold. Let's sail and find out! Written by @victorbranco.bsky.social . Read the review here: www.gameaccessibilitynexus.com/blog/2026/07...

I am a firm believer that accessibility cannot die. Tides may rise and fall, but accessibility is inevitable. Players know it, most businesses know it. The future is accessible. Let’s support each other during this time. Remember how far we’ve come, and how much further we will inevitably go 🫂♥️

With the recent news this form is open once again. If you've been in a (massive) layoff and feel like my products could help you in your career, please feel free to request any for free. Please don't abuse this, thank you. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Inspired by the great @kenney.nl, if you've been hit with one of the horrendous #gamedev #layoffs, we'd love to give you things. Offer ends when form is closed. 💚 lab.to/YSClaim

It's a difficult time in the games industry for many developers. Managing upheavals like layoffs, restructuring, & uncertainty can take a toll both mentally & physically. Check out this blog with a few tips and tricks on how to check in with and take care of yourself.

Today is a chippy tea kind of day

God, it looks like a LOT of Accessibility specialists were hit by today's layoffs at Xbox, inclusing some of their most senior accessibility folks. This feels like a REALLY bad sign for accessibility at Xbox going forward. A huge amount of skilled talent being thrown out as part of this "shake up".

It has been a really rough day and I appreciate the outpouring of support from everyone. The amazing @stevesaylor.net once said something like "every company should have an Elisabeth," and now is your company's chance! I'm on the job market after layoffs and looking for my next role.

imagine if they fired every band member every time an album came out

Hope is an act not a state of being. It requires talking about and sharing to grow. It is hard to hope but I'm gonna ask you for it anyway: If you're a game dev and have stories of what makes you hopeful for the future of games whatever that may be and would be willing to talk about it, get in touch

If you've been affected by the layoffs/reorgs today at Xbox, feel free to ping me if I can make intros to anyone in my network, you want to get tea (even online,) or want to shoot pixels on the internet for a while. Reminder that being laid off doesn't say anything about your performance or value.

Reply to this to send love to my team in Lyon and I'll make sure they see it 💕

lets hold hands and scream into the void, as a treat

I'm currently writing this report for @aftermath.site. If any member of any accessibility team was impacted by the layoffs, please reach out through email, messages, or my signal –4129804478.

Join our FREE interactive webinar with Susi Bauer to discover workplace accommodations and support you can implement to help yourself and people with ADHD on your team. 📅 Wed 22 July 2026 🕙 10am - 11am BST www.ticketsource.com/safe-in-our-...

I am currently actively seeking new clients to work with. If you're looking for a cognitive accessibility consultant, sensitivity reader (LGBT or Disability topics), or a mock reviewer, please reach out. Also looking for freelance news /reviews / guides work. [email protected]

Following the collapse of Unbound, I'm selling the last remaining physical copies of "Things I Learned From Mario's Butt" and "Who Hunts The Whale". Signed Copies of both available now! Mario's Butt: laurakbuzzstore.com/collections/... Who Hunts the Whale: laurakbuzzstore.com/collections/...

Mojang recently added closed captions to Minecraft Bedrock Edition (they were already available in Java Edition). The captions can be adjusted in position, types of sounds, and duration. Directional indicators help to know where the sounds come from. caniplaythat.com/2026/07/02/m...

Librarians, I love you, and I will hold your hand while I say this: Your Disability Pride Month booklists should not include books by nondisabled people about disabled people. We have a saying—it’s been around for a long time now: Nothing about us without us.

First time with my tablet in a long time, figured I would paint something I know well (I love bugs, a lot a lot)

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Disability has changed my life, but it hasn’t taken away my capacity or capability for joy. Happy #DisabilityPrideMonth to everyone finding their own way through grief, growth, and happiness. ❤️❤️ Love you! ☮️

The ultimate neurodivergent desire fulfilled - I am doing therapy right 😂😂😂 (in seriousness getting validated that I have been making the right decisions about my health and psychological safety has been *chef's kiss*)

Impact would not be what it is, without its judges. By having each years previous cohort have input, they help shape what Impact is year after year, and it helps reduce bias, and promotes a fairer outcome 🎉💚💛🧡

July is Disability Pride Month! Join me in helping make a more accessible and inclusive future. Let's kick off the month with a small but useful thing: enabling the "Require alt text before posting" checkbox in BlueSky's Accessibility settings. It's sadly per-device, so remember it on new ones!

what if the real video games industry was the people who made the games along the way

Industry friends--looking to do a Game Developer podcast episode about localization. Any cool folks in the community that I haven't met yet?

Oh and while we're here, can we stop pitting disabled people against each other, making us compete for resources like animals or making comparisons about who gets to be disabled enough or abled enough to be or do anything? tysm

It is Disability Pride Month! This year, disability pride for me is: 1. Accepting my disabilities and how they fluctuate. 2. Accepting myself because of and despite disability. 3. Trying to be rebelliously positive and joyful in the face of widespread normalised ableism.

We're closing out the month with another tech review thanks to the folks at Epomaker. Marijn tested the Epomaker HE108, a keyboard with Hall Effect switches, and found its many customization options can provide a more accessible keyboard experience. caniplaythat.com/2026/06/30/e...

Every morning I carefully and methodically apply my Absolute Fucking Clown makeup, for another day in The Games Industry™️

Great opportunity to push yourself to do something scary (eek public speaking)

Our first Impact Day last year was so wonderful, you can see the talks from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6e... We love new voices and new perspectives, so consider submitting a talk for this year!

So, I hate to ask, but I need financial support. I need to replace some PC components or I can't continue to work, and it's pretty urgent. I hate to ask for financial support, but if you can afford to help me out, 0lease let me know. PayPal.me/laurakbuzz

Our first Impact Day last year was so wonderful, you can see the talks from last year here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl6e... We love new voices and new perspectives, so consider submitting a talk for this year!

Hats off to Mikey for showing us the hiding abilities of the blind. #MecchaChameleon

Fun (not fun) fact about Thalassophobia - it can be triggered by seeing things like sharks in games. I just googled if the shark in the Treasure Island level in Escape Simulator did anything bad to the player, apparently it doesn't but I can't trust the internet so fingers crossed 🤞

gonna start calling them friendmops friend multiplayer online party games

2026: Shareholder asks Nintendo's board about accessibility. President of Nintendo describes it as a main function of the console, Nintendo's #3 talks about history of blind people playing the Rhythm Heaven series and tackling accessibility from early in dev for the newest one.

As someone who runs due diligence checks on creators, this doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. Riot’s player-base unfortunately has a high number of shitlords, crypto fiends and generally unpleasant people.

Vegetate in the heat with us from 8pm while we play Meccha Chameleon, I guarantee I will troll @thewobblygamer.bsky.social myself but we've got some amazing friends of Cats coming to play too!