Chad and Simon are back in the virtual studio for awide-ranging, heartfelt and often hilarious episode exploring accessibility,gaming, music festivals, technology and the future of the games industry.

Chad shares powerful reflections from his time mentoring young blind gamers at Signal Centers’ summer camp in Tennessee, including the joy of helping young people discover accessible games that give them confidence, agency and independence. Simon also reflects on bringing Games for Blind Gamers titles to the Big Health Day in Gloucestershire and seeing first-hand how inclusive play can create genuine moments of connection.

The conversation then moves from accessible gaming toaccessible live music, as Simon talks about his trip to Download Festival and praises the festival’s commitment to inclusion, from accessible viewing platforms and BSL interpretation to sensory support and a community atmosphere where everyone is encouraged to belong.

Along the way, Chad and Simon tackle bigger questions around disability support, education, assisted dying, social media bans, digital wellbeing, retro technology and the growing influence of older gamers. They also dig into the state of the gaming industry, why indie and retro games matter, and whether accessibility-focused developers could help shape a betterfuture for players of every age and ability.

It is a passionate, funny and thought-provoking episode about inclusion, creativity and the simple belief that when more people can play, participate and be heard, everybody wins.

In part 4 of our special series, Chad Bouton highlights the developers and teams behind Games For Blind Gamers 5, where creators spent February building games specifically for blind and visually impaired players.

For pt 3 Chad speaks to Jesse who is a Software Engineer based in Massachusetts. Outside of work, Jesse contributes to Web Standards work, and small web projects. For the past three game jams Jesse has worked on three separate games as well as accessibility libraries and templates to enable frameworks like PICO-8 and Love2d to be screen-reader friendly.