MIDI Association partner Soundwithoutsight are excited to announce their next Monthly Meet-up on Thursday 21, August 2025-a presentation and Q&A with the award winning and multi-credited accessibility consultant and gamer SightlessKombat who will share how audio innovations are improving access to gaming.
You can click here to register for the event or on the button below.
SK, real name Ben, has worked on games such as God of War Ragnarök, Sea of Thieves, and Gears 5.
As well as consulting with developers, SK shares his knowledge and experience through accessibility reviews on his website, streams on Twitch and YouTube, as well as presentations at events such as the Game Accessibility Conference and Axe Con.
https://linktr.ee/sightlesskombat
Ben is also Accessible Gaming Officer at the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
This session will feature footage from games that have innovated in the accessibility space over the past few years, highlighting how audio can be used to enable access for players with no vision whatsoever.
Ben will cover:
- His career and elements of his work.
- How audio can support with menu and UI narration, audio description, navigation cues, vehicle-based gameplay, and combat, featuring example gameplay footage.
- Future hopes and RNIB’s Design for Every Gamer initiative, including the RNIB Best Practice in Accessible Gaming DevKit.
We also found some very good reference material about accessible gaming at this website- https://caniplaythat.com/.
