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Making . Created Can I Play That. PM at @DescribedVideo working on Audio Description and Sign Language. He/they

Flint, MI
Joined August 2017
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1 year
My partner showing interest in my hobbies.
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1 year
My morning chat with Bess the 96 year old Zelda fan about how she's enjoying the game. (Games are good for you, tell everybody.)
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1 year
I'm going to tell you a story that's the opposite of the hearing for the first time inspiration porn, OK? I stopped wearing my hearing aids at work because they give me a headache and 8-9 hours of active listening just to follow conversations left me too tired to function.
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4 months
Bess passed away on Monday evening (peacefully, in her sleep, at 97) so it feels appropriate to share this essay about her love of BOTW again. Spend some time sharing games with somebody you love this week.
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Coty Craven
1 year
My morning chat with Bess the 96 year old Zelda fan about how she's enjoying the game. (Games are good for you, tell everybody.)
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5 years
You know what I'd really love to happen? For this to get 20,001 views just so I can screenshot it and post a reply to that Reddit guy that said only 20,000 people would benefit from Deaf accessibility.
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The reality of being laid off by Epic while being treated for skin cancer has hit me and woken me from a not sound sleep and I don't think there are words for how furious I am at the company, the leadership, their greed...all of it.
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I did so WITH the support of my little team because they'd prefer I be comfortable and not in pain at work than experience the magic of straining to follow conversations that hearing aids facilitate.
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5 years
Game devs, please stop trying to make your subtitle appearance fit the style of your game. Subtitles and captions are supposed to serve a purpose, not be a design element.
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4 years
@heystaceykay He's perfect! Congratulations to you both!
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2 years
Can we redo the CDC but staff it with only immunocompromised and disabled people?
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8 months
Coming back to Twitter to share that I've been laid off from Epic and am once again looking for full time roles in accessibility and/or production. I also have years of experience in game accessibility and content accessibility.
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5 years
I really wish people understood what a dangerous thing it is to knowingly expose immunocompromised people to their "minor" illnesses. Minor to you is debilitating to us.
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She also shared some sage advice about my tendency to give up on a game if I fail too many times to do something: "I fail at making it to the bathroom sometimes and I don't get mad. It happens. Why am I gonna get mad when I fail at this because I can't hit a button on time?"
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It's a HUGE trauma. Your job is part of your identity, no matter how many people tell you it's "just a job." A layoff takes away your routine, your security, a big part of your social circle. It's a trauma that needs to be grieved and processed.
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Kate Sánchez ➡️ SGF
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When I got laid off last year someone told me "job loss is trauma" and that was when I finally let myself process what happened instead of pushing through it
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Playing #TheLastofUsPartI and turned on the speech haptic vibration because it seemed like a really cool feature and after a couple minutes with it on, had to stop so I could cry a bit because it caused me a memory I'd not thought about in YEARS. 1/
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4 years
When your existence is so objectionable and horrifying to people that this headline and article actually got approval from an editor.
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Coty Craven
11 months
Folks I think we need to have a chat about the difference between subtitles and captions. Videos on social media that have any kind of sound at all need captions. Music playing? Caption it. Dogs barking? Caption it. Someone screaming inaudibly? Caption it.
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2 years
I had College Hunks Hauling Junk come help me move heavy living room stuff around today and this is the third time I've used them. I will NEVER tire of becoming the coolest person alive when they ask about all the video game stuff. (Now things fit in my apartment!)
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Sooo since both Playstation and Xbox have either refunded or removed Cyberpunk from the store because it's unplayable, they're going to implement that same refund policy when disabled people can't play games, right? RIGHT?
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Coty Craven
6 months
Want a game with no accessibility considerations? Cool. You get no UI, no menus, no volume sliders, no tutorials, and no map. How do you level up? Who knows. How do you craft things? Nobody knows. Enjoy.
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Since you're not a developer, no. Game devs should and will care about accessibility. To ensure as many players as possible can easily play videogames without issues. Is it unfair? No. But this world is unfair to begin with. And there's a choice we make to deal with it.
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I've been busying myself with a new project that I'm VERY excited about (CIPT levels of excited). Coming soon: the Game Content Triggers Database So no one will ever have their day or therapy progress ruined by unexpectedly finding traumatic content in a game!
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5 years
@darth Tali was just adopted a week ago and settling in is exhausting.
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We didn't get a review copy of one of the most anticipated games of the year so we couldn't have this info before launch but it's time for an accessibility thread for #DeathLoop .
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Yesterday I got an invite to be a guest on a podcast to talk about the importance of podcasts having transcripts/captions. Before I said yes or no, I asked if it would have a transcript. The guy actually replied “no, I don’t have the money, but I was thinking you wouldn’t mind.”
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4 years
I didn't include this in my #AssassinsCreedValhalla impressions piece but it's equally important to address. This is a character description in the game. It's absolutely unacceptable to talk about facial differences this way. Writers for games and otherwise need to do better.
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4 years
A fun story for you: A Muslim friend went to the gym today and was there when prayer time came, so she started her wudu ritual in the locker room and everyone thought she was doing some sort of CDC recommended cleansing and a couple people started copying her 😂
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2 years
. @darth I need your assessment of what I've walked in on here. Innocent sister cuddles or...?
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3 years
Because it apparently needs to be said: Captions aren't a suggestion or a "we'll look into it" for large companies/schools/etc. They're basic access that you owe to people you accept money from.
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I'd never known of anyone to do that and thought it was weird so when she was done feeling my voice, I felt hers. Many many memories have faded in the 3.5 years she's been gone but I vividly remember her vocal vibrations and these haptics put me right back there 11 years ago.
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3 years
#GameDevs I made a video for you about #Captions in your games.
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3 years
Don’t mind me I’ll be here having a little cry over Azar in @assassinscreed 🥺😭 I know there have been gender fluid characters in games before but I don’t recall ever seeing such a real backstory for anyone.
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In many games that have dialogue choices, you're not shown the actual dialogue, you're shown sort of the implications of the choice you make. Like here with “Let him work” and “Investigate thumpers.” But here once you hover on your choice, you see what you’ll say!
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My first piece for Polygon!! Seven of the games I feel really worked to further accessibility and inclusive gaming in 2021.
@Polygon
Polygon
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Video games pushed accessibility forward in 2021 more than ever before. Here are 7 standout examples:
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1 year
Finally finished the essay about Bess and BotW that I've been working on for the last 3 weeks.
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3 years
You know my usual game release day accessibility threads where I critique things that need work or are just terribly inaccessible? @GOTGTheGame has ruined my ability to do that because it's just THAT GOOD. So here's a thread in praise of everything they did so well!
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I promise that nobody playing your gothic vampire game with subtitles on is going to see a simple sans serif font and be like "Oh shit, nope, the appearance of this text 100% ruins the game for me, I cannot play any longer!"
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3 years
Good morning to everyone except this red flag meme. Take a full minute and five seconds to listen to this video and tell me if the joke would still be funny and apparent if it was audio only.
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Susan had no residual hearing and when we started dating, she asked if she could put her hand on my chest to feel the vibration of my voice. She said it was a good judge of character if someone had gentle vibrations.
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There are two things in the games industry that desperately need to change if it's ever going to become a sustainable career for anyone: Studios need to be co-op/employee owned. No more one person getting rich of other people's work.
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Just a wee life update.
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Want to know something cool about captions? OF COURSE you do, why else would you follow me? I've been doing research on my work caption content and video view duration is, on average, FOUR TIMES as long for viewers using captions.
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Coty Craven
3 years
Listen, folks. If you're going to make your subtitles this small, don't add any VO to your game so everyone can suffer.
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Just a lil update.
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Coty Craven
3 years
It's fascinating to see non-disabled players making demands of developers and studios when so many of them can't cope when disabled players ask nicely to be able to have this very access and transparency from other games.
@thegamerwebsite
TheGamer
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Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Are Demanding A Roadmap For Future Updates
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Was planning a very grand proposal to my gf for next week, wrote what I was going to say because winging it never goes well for me, sent to a friend to make sure it sounded good, accidentally sent it to my gf. How's your day going?
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LOVE this feature in #JediSurvivor ! Being able to review recent conversation and dialogue is so helpful because like 60% of the time I get distracted because the dogs are doing something and I missed a key like of dialogue.
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4 years
Really disappointed to learn that PAX passed on our panel submission comprised entirely of disabled gamers at the first PAX most disabled people could actually attend since it's online.
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Coty Craven
4 years
Random guy in my building to me while wearing my CIPT shirt: "Hey! Can I Play That! I love that site! Always check it for subtitle info so I can play when my baby's asleep." So again, everybody benefits from accessibility 😁
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Coty Craven
3 years
Wow. Never would have known without a survey.
@NBCNews
NBC News
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Unvaccinated adults are far less likely to wear masks and avoid crowds, survey finds.
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Coty Craven
4 years
I've seen a few captioning/accessibility guides recently that say you need captions *or* an ASL interpreter for videos and that's not quite accurate. You can't assume that all Deaf/hoh people know ASL and many more than Deaf/hoh people benefit from captions.
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Hi.
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Coty Craven
2 years
CW mental health, suicide 3 years ago today I was making plans to end my life. I was out of money, meds, and food, and losing my home. Then a friend took a chance and offered me a contract job at Epic. Soon that contract job becomes permanent. I never imagined a life so good.
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My partner and I took our hijabi neighbors grocery shopping today so nobody would bother them & we were given baklava in return. There are lots of ways you can offer allyship and safety right now, being an escorts is a good one if your friends and neighbors are feeling unsafe
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3 years
It's so beautiful 🥺😭🏳️‍🌈
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It's here!! The Game Content Triggers Database is LIVE! I hope people find it helpful. Please take some time to read the "How To" page to learn about how the DB works before diving in and using it.
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Coty Craven
5 years
High time for me to tell you something good, Twitter, since all I've talked about in the last couple months are the two worst things that have ever happened in my life... GUESS WHO IS A PROUD (contract) EMPLOYEE OF EPIC GAMES??? That's right, ME! I'm a captioning copy editor!
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Coty Craven
6 months
Indie devs! The Game Content Triggers Database is launching this Friday! If you’d like your game(s) included in our launch, please send me a DM and I’ll share the easy submission process. (Yes you have to follow me to DM, it’s the only way to keep trolls away on this hellsite.)
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1 year
Manual saves are an accessibility necessity. That's all.
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Coty Craven
1 year
Hi, friends! After months of sorting my shit out in therapy and understanding I can actually be who I WANT to be, I'm going by a new, non gender specific name. Coty. Like Courtney but minus some letters 😁
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2 years
I know I’m going to regret it but I’m very curious to know what, exactly, I’m not supposed to mind, either the podcast about accessibility not being accessible or that he’s about to ask me to do the transcription, so I replied to ask.
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Coty Craven
4 years
People have been talking recently about how the pandemic will make the world more accessible. I hate to be a downer but no, it won't. It'll make it a different kind of inaccessible. Until the needs of disabled people are given the same importance as thoseof abled people.
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Coming December 1st! The Game Content Triggers Database! Launching with a limited collection of about 25 games, with content trigger tags vetted by mental health pros. Game collection will grow over time, likely based on game popularity and dev submissions.
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Coty Craven
4 years
I'll be damned! Twitter seems to have enabled Media Studio for all users, allowing EVERYONE to add captions to their videos!
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Coty Craven
4 years
I never realized how powerful I was until today. I single-handedly forced a whole company to change their game with one tweet. Next I'm taking the presidency. I won, not Biden. Then I'm gonna make COD and Dark Souls actually fun. All with tweets.
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Coty Craven
3 years
I know those ASCII symbols are an easy way to make your tweets stand out and emphasize words in your tweets, but listen to this, especially if you run a brand account, and see if you can make it to the end.
@kentcdodds
Kent C. Dodds 🌌
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You 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 it's 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ to 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗲 your tweets and usernames 𝖙𝖍𝖎𝖘 𝖜𝖆𝖞. But have you 𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 to what it 𝘴𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 with assistive technologies like 𝓥𝓸𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓞𝓿𝓮𝓻?
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The Great Pottery Throwdown is the very best show. That's all. I'm sitting here judging the people's pottery skills like I could make anything more than a blob.
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Coty Craven
3 years
I had the pleasure of doing an accessibility review for @chicory from @FinjiCo and friends, this has a level of inclusion I've not seen since TLOU2. Check it out here
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Coty Craven
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I have won the soul of a "video games rot kids brains" parent! Kid wanted to play games, mom wanted him to get better at reading. I suggested allowing the games but with subtitles on/sound off and guess what? Kid got better at reading! Now mom wants more game recommendations 😁
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Coty Craven
3 years
@OhMyMithrandir @pcgamer Beige and gray Kate. Only beige and gray are allowed.
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I'm on BOTW right now and since it's not bloody and gross, I decided to show her that game. Now we are at Target buying Bess her own Switch so she can play Zelda when she goes back home to Missouri on Wednesday. Bess likes me. Mission accomplished.
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Coty Craven
2 years
Last time punching out as a contractor for Epic, Monday begins full time at Epic!!
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Coty Craven
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Hi, I'm Coty and I'm looking for work in the games industry! I was the platform producer for the Epic Dev Community most recently. Before that, I founded and managed Can I Play That (CIPT) which I like to think made a pretty big impact on the industry.
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The Bess + Zelda situation has evolved.
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3 years
I have not one but TWO hot takes for you today! Accessibility needs to start being factored in to a game's overall review score AND inaccessibility needs to be a no-questions-asked refund reason.
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Coty Craven
5 years
Reading more comments on game accessibility articles this morning and I have a question: Why are disabled gamers considered entitled for expecting to be able to play a game but it's perfectly normal for people to lose their shit should a game launch with bugs?
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Subtitles are for situations where there is just someone talking. Like a lecture. Or if you're a hearing English speaker watching a movie with French dialogue. Then you'd turn on subtitles. Subtitles alone do not cut it for accessibility for most videos.
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Coty Craven
4 years
Sooo CNN called. How's your day, friends?
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3 years
The idea of not dying instead of dying was really appealing.
@SecondGentleman
Douglas Emhoff
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What motivated you to get vaccinated?
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Coty Craven
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And perhaps my favorite feature is the timer that shows how long since your last save. No more compulsive saving because you can’t remember when the last one was!
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Coty Craven
8 months
Just applied for a producer role with Bungie, please think good thoughts that I will be once again employed soon.
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Coty Craven
4 years
I really don't like being *that* person but a video about accessibility should have more than auto-generated captions 😑
@IGN
IGN
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We take a look at the accessibility options of DOOM Eternal, including colorblind modes, UI customization, and more:
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Coty Craven
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Hearing aids aren't an on/off switch. And hearing and listening are not the same thing. Listening takes a hell of a lot of mental effort when you have hearing loss with or without hearing aids.
@Ben_Bayliss
Ben Bayliss
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People don't realize how exhausting wearing hearing aids can be. People also misunderstand the reality of using them because they don't cure deafness. There's still a lot of struggles on top of feeling obliged to wear them because no one will accommodate you.
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Coty Craven
3 years
Last week at GAConf I said I was tired of having the same criticism of subtitle text size. Now games are mocking me.
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Coty Craven
1 year
Deb regretting learning about FF took off but I'm afraid the only thing I have to promote is my dogs. Look at them.
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Coty Craven
2 years
Hot take of the day: The biggest barrier to new apps being made accessibly is the insistence that people should just be born knowing all about accessibility. Shaming people for not knowing what they don't know is not helping anybody. EVERYBODY has to start somewhere.
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Coty Craven
5 years
Once again, I'm stunned by the accessibility at a game's launch by @Ubisoft . Every game should start this way with menu narration on by default (on PS4) and the option to turn subs and select text size before you play a thing. #TheDivision2
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Coty Craven
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A freebie for you courtesy of the @CanIPlayThat workshops! Know all about social media accessibility? Use this checklist to make sure you've got everything you need. Want to learn how to do these things? We've got workshops for that!
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Coty Craven
5 years
You know what would be awesome for people to stop doing? Using disability and disfigurement as the horror part their horror manuscripts (games too but looking at Pit Dark and damn it's pretty rampant.) Do better, writers.
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Coty Craven
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Game trailer with music, sound effects, and singing? Caption it. Captions depict sound of all sorts, not just speech. Captions provide accessibility and immersion for Deaf/hoh people.
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Coty Craven
4 years
In case you were worried Assassin's Creed is the only game I want to ruin, I can't wait to also ruin Demon Souls for you. Might be time for the angry men to find a new hobby because this that you hate is the future of the games industry. You're welcome 😊
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Coty Craven
2 years
Good morning. Here are the subtitles in Deep Rock Galactic. Game devs, the purpose of subtitles is to *read* them, not give your player exercise by getting up and walking to the TV every 15 seconds to read the microscopic text.
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Coty Craven
4 years
GF, who is a burn victim and spent many years ashamed of her scars, was sitting beside me when I came upon this bit in the game and the look on her face...I was embarrassed that this was her impression of this industry I love so much.
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Coty Craven
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The Hailey mission in #SpiderMan2 is the most accurate depiction of being Deaf I've ever seen with her communicating with hearing people. From the flower shop owner being completely missed except for the emotion he was conveying to using a chat message to talk to people.
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Coty Craven
8 months
Job hunting in the games industry is just constantly wondering when you'll be employed again and how long before you're laid off again. Super healthy. Love it.
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Coty Craven
2 years
I hope the population at large never gets old or becomes immunocompromised because ceasing to matter as a human will be a rough transition for them.
@oni_blackstock
Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
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“…for older and immunocompromised people, it is not “rational” for the population at large to continue “to disrupt our lives.””
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Coty Craven
4 years
My collection of accessibility guides, all in one handy place: Accessibility for Writers: Game accessibility: Accessibility for Educators: Easy caption creation:
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