Articles related to accessibility as it relates to hobby gaming.
33 posts, grouped by year.
January 4th of each year is World Braille Day. It's a great time to reflect on this nearly 200-year-old tactile writing system that continues to improve literacy and access to this day. To celebrate, I'm going to post the full text of an article I…
Thursday, May 15th, 2025, is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). If you've been following us for any length of time, you'll know how important accessibility is to us. Heck, it's even in our name. So even if you haven't been following us for long, it's…
Learning Disabled and Teaching Tabletop Games is a great article written by James Cole and featured on The Geeky Gimp. IN the article, James talks about his gift of being a great board game teacher and how his experience with having a learning disability has…
I had the honor of being interviewed by Troy Truchon of the Plus or Minus Fudge RPG podcast. We talked about Psi-punk, accessibility, and Fudge.
Dragon Plus had a fantastic article highlighting accessibility issues, but it obscures one important truth about D&D 5e.
Today (May 17th, 2018) is Global Accessibility Awareness Day. I thought it would be a great time to reflect on how far we've come as an industry and how far we still have to go. When I started the Accessible Games blog back in 2010,…
I recently came upon the Modifier Podcast. They've featured two episodes about accessibility in gaming which you should check out.
Accessible Games is host to this month's RPG Blog Carnival The topic: Accessibility in Games.
December 3rd is the United Nations International Day of Persons with Disabilities. To celebrate, we're selling all of our PDFs for 50% off.
I recently came upon this helpful style guide for writing about people with disabilities.
Summer convention season is once again upon us, and that means it's time for a friendly reminder about being aware of yourself and your surroundings while you're interacting with others in large crowds.
This week I show you how to cut through the confusion and upload unwatermarked PDFs to DTRPG.
I get up on my virtual soap box to talk about why I talk about accessibility.
We take a close look at the PDF of Shaintar: Legends Arise and break down its accessibility features.
We're seeking collaborators to help design an Accessibility Best Practices document for hobby games.
Tears of a Machine is a mecha anime-inspired RPG that will be fully accessible to people with print differences.
Summer convention season is here and the chances you'll meet someone with a disability are pretty good. Here are some tips on interacting.
Learn how to set up bookmarks and accessibility tags for your PDFs when using Adobe InDesign CS6 with this step-by-step guide.
In part 3, I discuss why Fudge is a great RPG for people with dyslexia and similar learning disabilities.
Fudge RPG is a universal game that can be adapted to many situations. It's even great for gaming with children or people with disabilities.
Fudge RPG is a universal game that can be adapted to many situations. It's even great for gaming with children or people with disabilities.
Someone on Google+ shared an article about bookmarking PDFs that detailed poor, adequate, and good examples of the practice. I found it interesting and appropriate to the topic of designing PDFs with accessibility in mind ( read my previous post about that topic ). It's…
Game Grids, if this project gets off the ground, is not only going to be something useful for many board game players, but *unbelievably* useful for disabled gamers. The short of it is that these grids offer a place to put tile pieces so they…
Jeremy Friesen of the "Take On Rules" blog recently posted a wonderful article entitled " Helping Other Gamers With Consideration for the Visually Impaired." It is an excellent post in which he talks about his experience at GenCon and helping a visually impaired woman find…
About a year and a half ago, I told you about a new website called Wheelmap that aims to crowdsource knoledge of local businesses around the world and help people with disabilities find businesses that are accessible. ( View the original article. ) It was…
I am currently researching and writing an article (to be posted later) about accessibility in PDF publishing. In particular, I feel that game designers need to really consider how they launch their products in the digital age. There are a lot of disabled gamers out…
Another blog shout-out, this time to The Blind GM. The Blind GM's blog is aligned with the same goals as Accessible Games: to bring gaming to the disabled (in his case, more specifically to the blind). "If my goal is to bring awareness to the…
We wanted to share this link with everyone because we think this blog is not only a great read but a great resource. There's a lot that can be said about speech therapy (har har), and I know that if I had these sorts of…
It's ncie to stumble upon these sorts of things. I was recently browsing a website which specializes in accessibility aids for daily living. The site, Enable Mart ( ) has loads of exceptionally useful items to help people with any number of disabilities. One of…
Disabilities don't prevent you from enjoying hobby games. Here are some observations and tips to help you out.
If you haven't already, read my article about Accessible Runes. After contacting five different sellers on Etsy.com, all of whom hand-craft runes of their own, I found a couple of people who were willing to take on the task of custom making raised runes out…
My girlfriend and I were flipping through a catalogue of accessible daily living supplies when we came upon a few pages of games for the blind and visually impaired. The catalogue includes low-vision and blind versions of several of the most popular American family board…
Someone recently posed the question: "Where can I find rune casting supplies for a blind person?" At first, I wondered what this had to do with accessible gaming, but then realized that this site is, or should be, about more than just board games. Accessibility…
