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Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social researching disability and TTRPG safety tools forever and ever | also still a linguist | @gameassistyt.bsky.social | @TakeThis.org Accelerate Fellow '25 | @IGDAFoundation.org Grantee | pan-accessibility dreamer | crip and proud | she/her
Safe In Our World @safeinourworld.org The video games mental health charity supporting devs and players 🚀 [No. 1183344] 💚 Check out our linktree for support, helplines and where to find us! 🪐 http://linktr.ee/safeinourworld
The Pudding @pudding.cool The Pudding is a digital publication that explains ideas debated in culture with visual essays. https://pudding.cool/
Email: sup@pudding.cool
Support us: http://patreon.com/thepudding
hang xu @hangxu.bsky.social hang xu
Women-Led Games @womenledgames.com Summer Game Fest Edition: June 4th 4PM PT https://youtube.com/@Women-LedGames | Highlighting women in the games industry, sharing their projects, and their experiences.
Patch | Indie Gaming Magazine @patchmagazine.bsky.social The monthly indie gaming magazine 📖 Shipped worldwide from the UK 🌎
https://linktr.ee/patchmagazine
Sam W @vr-sam.bsky.social Supporting game dev studio relations | 20+ years in games industry, 10+ years in #VR / #AR / #MR / #xR / #SpatialComputing + rando #beer #cats #boardgames #games #food https://linktr.ee/vrsam
Steve Bromley @stevebromley.bsky.social 🎮 games user researcher, author of books about user research | led playtests for some games you’ve heard of, many you haven’t. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here.
Rebecca @softgothkitten.bsky.social She/her, chronically ill, writer.
BA degree in Disability Studies
Anti-eugenics, pro-masking & clean air.
RFK Jr & MAHA hater
Free Palestine
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social Digital Play Journalist for Forbes, BBC, Guardian. Brings games to unusual spaces, festivals and cathedrals. Makes cool stuff:
📕https://mybook.to/whatwashidden
📘https://mybook.to/taminggaming
🎯http://www.ludocene.com
🔎http://www.familygamingdatabase.com
Game A11y Gathering @ga11ygathering.bsky.social An independent gaming accessibility micro conference.
🎓Sharing knowledge 🎤Celebrating speakers ♿Accessible & approachable
Learn more: https://www.ga11ygathering.co.uk/
Clearleft @clearleft.com We are Clearleft – strategic design partners.
https://clearleft.com/
Proud to be #EmployeeOwned 🫶 Also, proudly responsible for
https://uxlondon.com and https://leadingdesign.com/
AbleToPlay | Find Accessible Games! @abletoplay.com 🎮 ✨ The BEST way to find accessible games that fit your needs and preferences.
Thousands of games researched, free, and 100% private.
➡️ Discover accessible games: www.abletoplay.com
🎉 Join the community: https://discord.gg/UwM4hamVqW
Neil Squire Society @neilsquiresociety.bsky.social We use technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with #disabilities. Our programs include: @makersmakingchange.bsky.social.
#DigitalLiteracy #Employment #AssistiveTechnology #Innovation
Makers Making Change @makersmakingchange.bsky.social We connect people with #disabilities to makers who can build affordable #AssistiveTechnology. A program of @neilsquiresociety.bsky.social
Good Trouble @goodtrouble.bsky.social We make AbleToPlay - The best way to find accessible games.
🔗www.abletoplay.com
Arman @armannobari.bsky.social Founder, AbleToPlay (Accessible games discovery)
📜 Ex-YouTube designer, game dev, cancer survivor, he/him, big fan of pizza shaped food 🍕
🔗
🌎 www.goodtrouble.games
Searra Leishman @seawolfly.bsky.social Lvl 37 | Accessibility & UX Designer Manager @hyperluminalUK | She/Her | #a11y | Artist | Amateur Photographer | #DREADpirate 🧠 ADHD
Tiny Onion @readtinyonion.bsky.social Layer by Layer.
A Production House from the mind of James Tynion IV.
Games Done Quick @gamesdonequick.com Video game marathons featuring high-level play by speedrunners raising money for charity. #AGDQ2027 January 3-10
Bryan Veloso @bryanvelo.so Director of Digital Services & Innovation. 🇵🇭 1st-gen Filipino-American. 20-year+ Web Design/Developer Hybrid. OG Web standards bearer. Omni-Hobbyist. Content Creator, Wota, Cat Dad, FFXIV DRK. He/Him.
YRS TRULY @yrstruly.uk A very nice marketing agency for the games industry ☺︎
B Corp certified and a member of UKIE.
Email us at hello@yrstruly.uk 💌
🌐 yrstruly.uk
derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
Sen. Jabari Brisport @jabaribrisport.bsky.social New York State Senator in District 25. Chair of Committee on Children and Families. Former public school teacher. Socialist. 🌹
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov Sen. Sanders of Vermont, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, is the longest-serving independent in congressional history.
SEIU_ORG @seiu.org Official Bluesky of SEIU, a leading voice for labor & progressive change for working people. #UnionsForAll #ProtectAllWorkers #1u
Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org We’re organizing against this fascist regime the only way that actually works — with on-the-ground, volunteer-led, communities of people power: https://linktr.ee/indivisibleteam
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
Senongo @senongo.bsky.social Designer and illustrator in NYC. Author of Cross-Cultural Design. VP of Design at Nava.
Latinx In Gaming @latinxingaming.bsky.social Award-winning 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to supporting Latine game industry professionals across the games industry
https://linktr.ee/latinxingaming
Want to get in touch? Email us at contact@latinxingaming.com
The Habibis @thehabibis.show The Habibis is three game developers, inshallah, drinking some good Arab Tea, inshallah, each week, inshallah. @fawzi.zone & @osamadorias.bsky.social & @ramiismail.com discuss games & media & life as a bunch of Arab game devs living all over the world
Etienne de Martel @piment.gay 🖤🩶🤍💜 | https://piment.gay | (he/they) Principal programmer at Eidos Montreal, specializing in making others fitter, happier and more productive. I think you should care about other people. Trans rights are human rights.
Game Accessibility Nexus @gamea11ynexus.bsky.social Your resource for accessibility in videogames! Game reviews, guidelines, articles on assistive software and hardware, interviews and more. #a11y
Web: gameaccessibilitynexus.com
BIGMODE Games @bigmode.bsky.social indie game publishing, go bigmode!
bigmode.com
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue I work on @securedrop.org
Former fed at 18F "deleted" by DOGE
🔗 https://skiles.blue/
Lindsay @not-young.bsky.social Director 18F, formerly Sunlight Foundation
Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social Delivered effective, efficient, and secure digital services for the American people until we were forced to stop on March 1, 2025. Not an official government account. Reposts are not endorsements. Our new website: https://18f.org/ #AltGov
Sarah Higley @codingchaos.bsky.social An inveterate oddball who writes about accessibility online. Offline I'm trying to start a crow army in my backyard, but so far all they do is yell at me for peanuts.
https://sarahmhigley.com/
Descriptive Video Works, A Keywords Studios Company @dvworks.bsky.social At DVW, we believe accessibility means access for all. Our team spans six continents and we provide #Accessibility services in over 18 different languages. #DEIA
rikki poynter @rikkipoynter.bsky.social my links:
http://linktr.ee/rikkipoynter
nsfw bluesky:
https://bsky.app/profile/rikkipoynterxoxo.bsky.social
NothingHappenedToday (Ed Harrington) @edharrington.bsky.social I mostly create at night. Mostly.
https://www.neatoshop.com/artist/Ed-Harrington
Amer I’m Here 🌎 @amerimhere.bsky.social 
Colleen Tighe @colleentie.bsky.social illustrator, motion designer, over-explainer
colleentigheart.com
Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com Independent LGBTQ+ journalist, mom, D&D DM. Tips: http://ko-fi.com/erininthemorn // Booking: http://erinreedwrites.com // Venmo erin888
Bylines @TheGuardian.com, @advocate.com, @xtramagazine.com
Subscribe to support my journalism www.erininthemorning.com
Sean Vinci @seanvinci.bsky.social Drummer & Recording Engineer from NY
seanvinci.com
Paul Georges @pgeorges.bsky.social Currently Senior Technical Product Manager at Epic Games
Previously Staff Software Development Consultant at Unity Technologies
Game dev, cyclist
The gremlin looking thing is Henri
Opinions are my own
(he/him 🏳️🌈)
Jarvs | Indie Insights 🎮♿🏳️🌈 @jarvdusa.bsky.social 💡Founder & Director of Jarvs' Indie Insights
♿ Award Winning Accessibility Advocate & Marketing Hero
🖖 @TrekCentral.net Host & Writer
🪄 @playwitchspire.com CM
🏳️🌈LGBTQ+
https://www.jarvsindieinsights.com/
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
NWU🎮♿ @nothingwithoutus.bsky.social NWU is a non-profit aimed at building community, awareness and inclusion for accessibility and disability within the gaming industry and gaming communities.
Rui Craveirinha @metavideogame.bsky.social Associate Lead UX Researcher at Rockstar North.
Credited on Still Wakes the Deep, Bloodlines II, Cyberpunk 2077 Phantom Liberty, Little Nightmares III.
Former Games HCI Professor and Critic for IGN Portugal
Rosabelle Armstead | Donut 🍩 @rosabelle.bsky.social Accessibility @ Xbox
ex. Media Molecule
Dreams PS4 • [REDACTED]
Hobbyist artist
all opinions my own
coda, she/her 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/rosabellearmstead
OneSwitch @one-switch.bsky.social Accessible Gaming, switch access, accessible gaming history. Bits and bobs.
OneSwitch.org.uk
RossMinor - Game Accessibility @rossminor.bsky.social Multi-award winning #blind #accessibility professional, consultant, and content creator with a passion for gaming and tech! \ rossaminor@gmail.com \ RossMinor.com
Anna Waismeyer @risukora.bsky.social (She/Her) Accessibility Research Lead @ Xbox. Neurodivergent and passionate about game inclusion and accessibility
Opinions are my own. 
Nickie Harper-Williams @heytalvi.bsky.social Photographer, music lover, cat lover. Paints landscapes when she has time.
Lifelong Warcraft fan and has big Labrador energy :D
Mainly on Threads - fantasticophotography 
Cari 🍉 🔜 Develop / GA11y Gathering / GAConf @cariwatterton.bsky.social Gaming Accessibility Person. she/her
Worked on ⚛️ Atomfall, 🔫 Sniper Elite and 🐉 Skye Tales.
Witch who crafts, owns an unhealthy amount of board games and has a black cat called Toothless.
Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social Founder of Psychgeist and DLC Leadership Program. Visiting Researcher at University of Cambridge. Chocobo wrangler. All opinions mine.
It's Topher Winward! ✌️ @topher.io Joy finder && software developer.
Accessibility, videogames, webdev, cloud, gardening, birding, gratitude.
he/him 🏳🌈🌎
Working at @Rare.co.uk on @SeaOfThieves.com and beyond~
https://topher.io
Jessica @jessicaroache.bsky.social #a11y & corporate comms at Ubisoft
Brannon Zahand @brannonz.bsky.social Senior Gaming Accessibility Program Manager for @Xbox. https://linkedin.com/in/brannonz #a11y #disability #gamingforeveryone He/Him
The Game Accessibility Conference @gaconf.bsky.social Two days of talks and networking exploring accessibility for disabled players, hosted by the IGDA'S accessibility SIG. #GAconf
☕Rhianne Gorman-Murphy☕ @rhianneman.bsky.social Writer & Narrative Designer | Ex Square Enix & Sumo Digital | 30 under 30 '24 | LARP lover and tea drinker
https://linktr.ee/rhianneman
Jennissary @jennissary.bsky.social Producer for Live and Interactive Audio Description at Descriptive Video Works (she/her), veteran, parrot owner, #A11y #DescribeEverything
https://linktr.ee/jennissary
Aiden Straw(berry)hun 🍓 @astraww.bsky.social God’s absolute favorite princess - Creator Theydy on MLB the Show - Prev. Pokémon Go via Premier Comms + Assassins, Siege, XDefiant - EGL ✨fashun✨model and stylist - #A11y - AKA Daisy! 🌼 (joy/ful)
Jazmin Cano / JC_3D 🔜 GDC @jc-3d.bsky.social I make VR games as accessible as possible through design, research, and playtesting! Senior UX Research Specialist @OwlchemyLabs.com #GamesAccessibility #XR #A11y #ADHD
This gamer is also a pastel color enthusiast, crafter, and a libra ✨ ⚖️
Assistiv Labs @assistivlabs.com Assistiv Labs builds tools that help developers & accessibility professionals create a more inclusive web.
https://assistivlabs.com
Jazzlyn Stone @jazzlynstone.bsky.social Director of Communications, Tiny Onion • Writer • She/Her 🇲🇽/🇩🇪/🇺🇸/🏳️🌈
Thomas Logan @techthomas.bsky.social Owner of Equal Entry, Accessibility Activist, Musician, 🏳️🌈 🇺🇸 Co-Organizer of A11yNYC, A11yVR, and A11yTokyo meetups
contact@equalentry.com for accessibility auditing, training, and legal support
Cameron Cundiff @ckundo.bsky.social Software engineer at Asana and accessibility nerd. Founder of A11yNYC meetup.
Equal Entry @equalentry.com Equal Entry audits technology and produces training on accessibility. Contact@equalentry.com for accessibility auditing, testing, and legal support.
Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com I make websites and maybe games?
Blogging at http://joshwcomeau.com.
He/Him 🌈
Bruce Lawson @brucel.bsky.social Web standards a11y lovegod who leverages synergies at Vivaldi browser. More posts & conversation at @brucelawson@vivaldi.net. This is broadcast-only, as I've been disappointed by non-Fediverse platforms before. Musician. He/ him. Personal views. RT≠+1.
rem / Remy Sharp @remysharp.com Smart enough to know he's not smart enough.
🌮
📍Brighton, UK
Simon Collison @colly.com Creative director & digital designer, human, etc. Music and art as Site Nonsite: https://bsky.app/profile/sitenonsite.com
CSS-Tricks* @css-tricks.bsky.social * A website about making websites: https://css-tricks.com
Most posts brought to you by @geoffgraham.me
Eric Meyer @meyerweb.com Armchair rocket scientist graffiti existentialist. Old enough for it to hurt when I stand up, not old enough to have stopped noticing. Agnostic in principle, atheist in practice, #CSS guy, mzungu. I’m only here for the food.
Mat “Wilto” Marquis @wil.to Melee DPS.
I’m https://wil.to
I wrote https://piccalil.li/javascript-for-everyone
I wrote https://web.dev/learn/javascript and https://web.dev/learn/images too, way back when.
I make https://multipa.ge, y'know, when I get a chance.
jenn schiffer 🍦 @jennschiffer.com human genius
jennschiffer.com
Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social I try to be helpful. Bike-riding dog butler and mold connoisseur.
Use your employer's money to buy Just Enough Research: www.mulebooks.com/just-enough-research.
Enjoy clickens.chicken.pics when you need a break.
San Francisco. She/They/Friend/Sir
Geri Coady (ジェリー) @gericoady.bsky.social Colour-obsessed illustrator. UK immigrant. Author of Color Accessibility Workflows from A Book Apart. http://hellogeri.com 日本語 OK
zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social “King of Web Standards”—Businessweek. Ava’s dad. OG web designer. Automattician. Composer. zeldman.com + alistapart.com. Author “Designing With Web Standards.” Founded Happy Cog. Taught MFA IXD @ SVA NYC. Co-founded A Book Apart & An Event Apart (RIP).
Whitney Hess @whitneyhess.bsky.social I am a coach, writer, and UX designer on a mission to put humanity back into business. I believe empathy builds empires. (She/her) #blacklivesmatter #resist ✡️
Tyler Fentie @tjfentie.bsky.social (He/Him)
Accessible gaming lead @ Makers Making Change | T1D, engineer, and maker | My tweets do not represent the organizations I work for | EIT, ATP
Daretti_IRL @darettiirl.bsky.social C6 Quadriplegic | Wheely Chill Guy | Disabled Veteran | Goblinmaxxing | MTG is hand therapy | Girudo Ambassador | #goadvibes #goadvibesonly | mikethequad@gmail.com
Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social Monotropic semi speaking adult writing about neurodivergent play & adventures. MTB, digital a11y, AAC user, podcast host & lion tamer (he/him)
IllegallySighted @illegallysighted.bsky.social Hello, my name is Jesse Anderson, a.k.a. IllegallySighted on many areas around the Internet. By day, I am an assistive technology specialist. I am also a technology, game, and XR Accessibility advocate and consultant.
Frank Chimero @frankchimero.com Another designer in New York
Rizel Scarlett 🇦🇬🇬🇾 @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social Tech Lead, Open Source Developer Relations @opensource.block.xyz
Prev:Dev advocate at GitHub. Graduated from Resilient Coders.
In my free time, I like to annoy my husband and binge watch reality tv shows.
I'm a new mom.
#BlackSky
izzy kantor-jagan @izzydragon.bsky.social senior campaign manager @ YRS TRULY 🎮 prev. Life is Strange (square enix)
brighton based 🌈 she/her
women in games awards nominee for Comms Impact '24 ✨
Mollie Evans🔜 Develop Brighton✨🪫 @littlemotac.bsky.social Overly smiley disabled creator, advocating for more inclusion in games (she/her)✨Director @nothingwithoutus littlemotac@gmail.com💌
https://linktr.ee/LittleMoTAC
James Tynion IV @jamesthefourth.bsky.social I write a lot of your favorite comic books about monsters, UFOs, dead kids, and murder ladies. Eisner Award Winner. GLAAD Media Award Winner. NYT Bestseller. Tiny Onion Boss Guy.
Brooklyn, NY | He/Him | 🏳️🌈
https://linktr.ee/jtynioniv