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.

Chad continues the special series looking at the Games For Blind Gamers 5. Continuing today we start interviews conducted with members of Games For Blind Gamers, highlighting all of the amazing work done by the community who spent all of February 2026 creating blind accessible games that are free to play and totally blind accessible.

Chad and Simon are back with another episode exploring different aspects of Dissability and technology.

We explore 3D printing and design for people who are blind. talking about Edis a blind designer and his website for budding engineers with sight impairment.

https://accessible3d.io/

We talk about accessibility issues with the removal of real banks and Ticket offices in train stations

Finally we talk about our thoughts around AI and the benefits and dangers to people with Disabilities.

Starting today to celebrate Global Accessibility Day Unsyted Radio starts a series of 6 episodes where Chad explores the people and games behind the Games for blind Gamers 5 hosted in February 2026.

This special series of interviews conducted with members of Games For Blind Gamers, organisers and game developers.

Over the next 5 weeks Chad will be highlighting all of the amazing work done by the community who created blind accessible games that are free to play and are totally blind accessible.

Todays episode Chad talks to Eric The primary host of the game jam. He is not the only host but he is the longest serving member. He has also been a pivitol game developer and has created and submitted a game for all five game jams.

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-5

Chad and Simon take a look at the Games for blind gamers entry and 4th Place Winner :Delvers Folley. Simon Learns how to play with Chad as his guide.

to see all games of the Games for blind Gamers Jam entries.

https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-5/results

When looking to help people with technology can you go to far where a person looses their agency. Chad and simon explore technology services provided to people with disabilities and chronic illness and how you ballance accessibility with a persons agency.