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 #qaudhd

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

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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 your thoughts/suggestions for future topics.

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #holiday #ill #a11y

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 best things I've done in 2024, and I plan to continue next year and beyond; for as long as I feel like I have something useful to say.

As always: please share, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics.

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #intergalactic

Link to IATs: https://www.learningforjustice.org/professional-development/test-yourself-for-hidden-bias

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 future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd

Also please watch this Viva La Dirt League Video.

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 #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #tga2024

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 in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #box

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 of myself for calling in sick (sort of) last week, and the sorts of things you should be analysing when performing a game quality retrospective.

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 #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #different #retrospective

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, drop in comments and let me know your thoughts/suggestions for future topics. Thank you for reading/listening! ❤️

#videogames #qa #gamequality #autism #adhd #audhd #qaudhd #simples #greybox