Talking to blind and partially sighted gamers about accessibility? Definitely underrated, as Robin says. 🎮

He and Jonny were at @egx talking about how developers can create titles that people with sight loss can enjoy.

We know it’s not easy, which is why we’ve assembled a panel of blind and partially sighted gamers – like Robin and Jonny – to put games through their paces and give feedback based on lived experience.

Find out more at rnib.in/DesignForEveryGamer

[Video description: Our panellists on-stage at EGX, sitting in front of a screen with the white and pink RNIB: Design For Every Gamer logo. Robin speaks first, he wears a black RNIB cap and t-shirt and blue jeans, reading from his iPad. Jonny speaks second, wearing a matching RNIB cap, as well as a sage green t-shirt and plaid blue shirt. In the middle of them is Robin Sloan, who has short brunette hair and stubble and wears black glasses. He nods and smiles as the other speak.]

[Video transcript:

Robin: And one of the biggest things that helps me to learn is talking to blind and partially sighted people. Very underrated. Yeah. They've always got interesting things to share.

And I think for all of us, that's one way that we just constantly expand our toolkit and and, you know, we're able to do more and understand more because we're listening to people's experiences.

Jonny: I think just having conversations with people teaches you different things that you didn't know before. And I guess particularly for students, which we're talking about, they may not have come across blind or partially sighted people before.

So if you could get in every room and talk to them and talk about which games they want to play, which I would say is all of them because everyone loves games. So it's just thinking about talking to them and learning from what accessibility features they would find useful.