Ben Bayliss
@benbayliss.bsky.social
Production Coordinator: Accessibility @ R* | Former EiC | Opinions mine | Deaf 🦻🏻 (he/him)
September 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Hard Wind in Mic Sound Effect
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September 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Battlefield 6 is exciting but feels like HUD overwhelm.
August 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Battlefield 6 is exciting but feels like HUD overwhelm.
Reposted by Ben Bayliss
My professional opinion as a digital accessibility specialist is that if you do what is described here, you’re a dick.
When I see art/comics accounts entering alt text of just one letter (or something else brief and useless), that's an instant block. I can't even imagine the reason someone would do that. For a person using screen reader software it's worse than not including alt text at all.
June 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
My professional opinion as a digital accessibility specialist is that if you do what is described here, you’re a dick.
Reasons why the Switch 2 STT allowing swear words is important.
It let's us, as D/deaf and hard of hearing players, to remain fully involved in communication everyone else has access to audibly, clearly.
It let's us, as D/deaf and hard of hearing players, to remain fully involved in communication everyone else has access to audibly, clearly.
Absolutely! My post was a little vague and should have specified for accessibility 😂
I've played games for years with shoddy speech to text and spent more time trying to decipher weird transcriptions or censored words.
This is a great allowance that will reduce that experience.
I've played games for years with shoddy speech to text and spent more time trying to decipher weird transcriptions or censored words.
This is a great allowance that will reduce that experience.
June 6, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Reasons why the Switch 2 STT allowing swear words is important.
It let's us, as D/deaf and hard of hearing players, to remain fully involved in communication everyone else has access to audibly, clearly.
It let's us, as D/deaf and hard of hearing players, to remain fully involved in communication everyone else has access to audibly, clearly.
This might seem funny on the surface, but this is actually very cool.
Confirmed: Nintendo has freed the F bomb and you can swear in Switch 2 speech-to-text GameChat
The age-old tradition of cursing while gaming is elevated with the Switch 2's GameChat accessibility feature
www.gamesradar.com
June 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
This might seem funny on the surface, but this is actually very cool.
Okay, YUNGBLUD's 'Hello Heaven, Hello' is actually a bop.
Feel like Idols will be the album I delve into.
Feel like Idols will be the album I delve into.
May 29, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Okay, YUNGBLUD's 'Hello Heaven, Hello' is actually a bop.
Feel like Idols will be the album I delve into.
Feel like Idols will be the album I delve into.
Another fantastic GAConf done.
Super grateful to be amongst amazing people these last few days. It was wonderful to meet a large number of you in person for the first time, and was great seeing everyone's work in video game accessibility and advocacy.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Super grateful to be amongst amazing people these last few days. It was wonderful to meet a large number of you in person for the first time, and was great seeing everyone's work in video game accessibility and advocacy.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
April 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Another fantastic GAConf done.
Super grateful to be amongst amazing people these last few days. It was wonderful to meet a large number of you in person for the first time, and was great seeing everyone's work in video game accessibility and advocacy.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
Super grateful to be amongst amazing people these last few days. It was wonderful to meet a large number of you in person for the first time, and was great seeing everyone's work in video game accessibility and advocacy.
Thank you for sharing your experiences.
I was holding out for a Steam Deck. But now I might lean to Switch 2.
April 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I was holding out for a Steam Deck. But now I might lean to Switch 2.
Trigger sensitivity caught me off guard.
Went away to answer the door. Came back to continue listening. Accidental double jab.
Went away to answer the door. Came back to continue listening. Accidental double jab.
March 28, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Trigger sensitivity caught me off guard.
Went away to answer the door. Came back to continue listening. Accidental double jab.
Went away to answer the door. Came back to continue listening. Accidental double jab.
Tried to show as much of my new @stevesaylor.social tee.
March 19, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Tried to show as much of my new @stevesaylor.social tee.
Reposted by Ben Bayliss
Spicy Post of the Month: Disabled people don’t need “special treatment”—they need what should’ve been accessible from the start. It’s not a handout; it’s a correction for bad design in our systems, services, and products.
March 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Spicy Post of the Month: Disabled people don’t need “special treatment”—they need what should’ve been accessible from the start. It’s not a handout; it’s a correction for bad design in our systems, services, and products.
Film developer: "that'll be £14"
Me: "For the larger resolutions?"
Dev:"Ooh no. That'll be more. £15"
Me: "I'll take it"
Me: "For the larger resolutions?"
Dev:"Ooh no. That'll be more. £15"
Me: "I'll take it"
March 1, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Film developer: "that'll be £14"
Me: "For the larger resolutions?"
Dev:"Ooh no. That'll be more. £15"
Me: "I'll take it"
Me: "For the larger resolutions?"
Dev:"Ooh no. That'll be more. £15"
Me: "I'll take it"
Accessibility is good, actually.
February 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Accessibility is good, actually.
I turned emergency alerts off ages ago.
I'm scared that, my phone, which is connected to my hearing aids by Bluetooth, will blare that alert directly into my external acoustic meatus.
Violently pounding my tympanic membranes against the malleus, incus, and stapes — rumbling my cochlea incessantly.
I'm scared that, my phone, which is connected to my hearing aids by Bluetooth, will blare that alert directly into my external acoustic meatus.
Violently pounding my tympanic membranes against the malleus, incus, and stapes — rumbling my cochlea incessantly.
January 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I turned emergency alerts off ages ago.
I'm scared that, my phone, which is connected to my hearing aids by Bluetooth, will blare that alert directly into my external acoustic meatus.
Violently pounding my tympanic membranes against the malleus, incus, and stapes — rumbling my cochlea incessantly.
I'm scared that, my phone, which is connected to my hearing aids by Bluetooth, will blare that alert directly into my external acoustic meatus.
Violently pounding my tympanic membranes against the malleus, incus, and stapes — rumbling my cochlea incessantly.
Happy to say that as the year begins, I'm now moving up to 'Production Coordinator: Accessibility' at R*!
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January 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Happy to say that as the year begins, I'm now moving up to 'Production Coordinator: Accessibility' at R*!
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January 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Went to the mountains.
Got the car beached on ice.
Got free.
Went home.
Went to the beach.
What a day.
Got the car beached on ice.
Got free.
Went home.
Went to the beach.
What a day.
January 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Went to the mountains.
Got the car beached on ice.
Got free.
Went home.
Went to the beach.
What a day.
Got the car beached on ice.
Got free.
Went home.
Went to the beach.
What a day.
Highly tempted to get an insight into @topher.io's world by purchasing these diary parts in Fallout 76... 👀
January 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Highly tempted to get an insight into @topher.io's world by purchasing these diary parts in Fallout 76... 👀
As the new year rolls in and people prepare... I've turned my hearing aids off and going to sleep. 😏
December 31, 2024 at 11:46 PM
As the new year rolls in and people prepare... I've turned my hearing aids off and going to sleep. 😏