QAuDHD Weekly

This week I'm talking self-deprecating humour, clowning around at school and the next stage of human evolution (just as a light topic to finish us off). Then I dive into the emerging role of Accessibility QA within games! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #aqa #classcl...

And we're back! Back again. DJ's back. Tell a friend (OK I'll stop). This week we're back to our double-topic format, with some scientific justification for constantly re-watching the same shows on Netflix and a few tips on ensuring a positive initial experience for players of your games! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future...

SEX! Now that I've got your attention, this week marks a half century of QAuDHD episodes/issues (I know it says 49, but ignore that), so I'm doing a special episode all about... well sex, actually. Just not sex in that sense. Unless you've been living under a rock this past week, I'm sure you can figure out what I mean, and either way - the best way to find out is to read/listen! As always: please...

This week I'll be talking once again about allyship, especially in the wake of recent events in games and the world of entertainment as a whole. I'll also be giving a brief explanation of how to utilise your quality teams as part of any post-launch support efforts for your games! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videoga...

Happy (belated) World Autism Awareness Day! This week I talk a bit about a show that's doing amazing things for Autism Awareness (at least in my opinion) and I also cover off some of the less obvious stumbling blocks that can affect game submissions for console release. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gameq...

It's been quite a busy few weeks for me, with a lot to juggle, a lot of change, some highs and some lows. But I've made it through to the other side and (just about) managed to scrape together today's issue throughout it all, so... yay me! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #a...

In this week's issue I talk about the legitimacy of games journalism, why "popular opinions" aren't all they're cracked up to be, and just a few examples of how to maximise Audio Accessibility with volume controls and subtitles. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #au...

In this week's issue, I give a really positive example of where hyperfocus has helped me to prepare for the arrival of our baby and then, on the topic of fixating on a particular topic, I go into a bit more detail about last week's topic. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future... topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #aud...

This week I kick off with an impression, because why not, before talking about the rising number of autistic diagnoses and the general rise and fall of open bugs over the course of a game's development. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #bellcurve

Returning again to a couple of old topics, this week I dive deeper into the best way to delegate or hand out tasks (especially to us neurodiverse peeps) and a few best practices around Visual Accessibility. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #delegate #accessibility #a11y

Eurika! I had a spark of realisation this week that might almost make it seem like I've planned out my topics in order to eventually be able to tie things together into a single example, but... no. I'm not that organised. It HAS worked out rather nicely, purely by coincidence, however. So that's good! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions f...

Enough! I'm done with negativity. Let's focus on some positives this week. Also... I'm actually not done with negativity, because there's a specific subset of negative testing that I promised to cover as well. But still! As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #n...

So, in keeping with the general feel of world events, and as promised, this week is very much on the negative end of things as I discuss the negative impact of certain high-profile political decisions and the value of negative testing. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #ne...

Happy Mon-yay y'all! This week I start with some exciting (if a little scary) news, followed by a brief overview of one of the unsung heros of testing types. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #positive

One week down... This week I'm covering a topic I never thought in a million years I would have to cover: why autism is not "an excuse". I also cover the subject of making mistakes and how to handle it in a professional manner. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaud...

Good Monday, everyone! This week is admittedly a bit of a rant about the hypocrisy of social etiquette, while also covering my views on bug reporting etiquette. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. #videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd https://gamequality.org/memberships/

The first QAuDHD of the year is here! Welcome to 2025 everyone - and what a year it's shaping up to be... for better or worse. I started the year with a lovely holiday that left me with an awful cold, so I will mostly be complaining about that. But I'll ALSO be covering some Accessibility best practices that fall under the "Motor" category. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know...

The last QAuDHD of the year is here! This week I talk about "Gamergate 2", representation and unconscious bias in what I hope doesn't come off as too much of a rant... If it does, I can just make "rant less" one of my New Year's resoltuons for 2025! Thank you all so much for reading and listening to QAuDHD over the past few months - in a year of highs and lows it has been right up there with the b...

It's CHRIIIIISTMAAAAAAS..... in a couple of days! It has been quite a year, with highs and lows personally and across the industry; yet somehow we manage. Spare a thought for anyone struggling this festive season, and remember that even the ones who seem to be doing well might be struggling in their own way. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for fu...

ALERT! Only one more QAuDHD until Christmas! This week I have a mild heart-attack at work, stay up until the early hours of the morning pushing buttons, and offer my 2c on the best way to make sure your console builds are compliant. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️ #videogames #qa #gamequality...

Two more QAuDHD's until Christmas! I assume that's how you're all counting down the days, right? This week I'll be briefly ranting about why I don't like exams and how tests can be misinterpreted, before following that theme over into how test cases can be misinterpreted, before closing out with some thoughts on familirization and hand-overs when rotating your team. As always: please share, drop i...

Happy first Monday of December! Working from home makes it all-too-easy to just "power through" those days where you're feeling rough, because you figure you can still sift through emails and Slack messages, hold it together enough for a 15 minute meeting, and generally get a few bits done while you relax on the sofa (pretty much my normaly working day anyway). This week I talk about why I'm proud...

Happy Monday, everyone! Last week I confused everyone with my foward thinking reminsicning on looking back at... sorry, I'm doing it again. This time I'll be making things a lot clearer by talking about when you might do Grey Box testing on Grey Box levels and when you might do Gry Box testing on NON-Grey Box levels... or indeed testing with other colour names. Simples! As always: please share, dr...

Good Monday, everyone! Looking forward, I imagine we'll look back on recent events and wonder how far back things went wrong. Yet, looking back, I've realised that I look forward to looking back on things, especially with a view of learning and developing, in order to move forward stronger than before. Anyway, now that's been cleared up, let's get into today's issue! As always: please share, drop...

Last week was... intense, huh? This week, I'm focussing on some bad advice and straight up lies we're told as kids. Then in a less-related-than-I'd-like main topic I'll be giving a brief overview of Compliance in videogames, why it's important and why, despite how important it is, it's often left to the last minute. As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestion...