Coty CravenFormer Director of Operations and Workshop FacilitatorThey/Them
In 2014, Coty co-founded a deaf accessibility video game review site and in 2018, four years of hard work became Can I Play That?
Coty is the owner and Director Of Operations and Business Development for Can I Play That?, a captioner, and an accessibility consultant in the video games industry.
Four years of rating and reviewing video games and being part of the #a11y community has allowed accessibility and how essential it is that we do our best to ensure all people have equal access on the web, in games, and out in the world, to become the center of Coty's life, both personally and professionally.
Coty is also a fiction writer, has a BA in sociology, an MA in English, and an MFA in fiction writing. They use none of these degrees in their captioning work for Epic Games but hey, at least they learned cool stuff, right? Coty talks about video games, their dogs Tali and Tater, and accessibility/inclusion a lot on Twitter.
Review unit provided courtesy of Sony Interactive Entertainment. This story starts with our hero (EIC, whatever) fearing they are about to be arrested. 7:50 AM, there’s a knock on the door. The dog starts barking her head off. Moments before, a police car with lights and sirens pulled up in front of my apartment building. […]
When Susan (co-founder of CIPT and my partner) died, I was ready to throw in the towel on this site and the a11y community as a whole. I’d never felt particularly connected to the community and I knew that continuing to work on what we’d built together would only compound my grief. We’d launched CIPT […]
Another remake, another lost opportunity to improve on the original game’s level of accessibility. That’s what Mafia: Definitive Edition is. In a year filled to the brim with remasters and remakes in which every single one of them hasn’t given so much as a thought to improving any aspect of accessibility, I’ve all but given […]
I’ve been sick for 34 years. When I was younger, my disease would ebb and flow, painfully inflamming every joint in my body for months on end and then it would vanish just as quickly as it came. As I’ve gotten older, the unpredictable waves of illness and disability have become more of a dam […]
Coming into Marvel’s Avengers as a complete novice to all things Marvel and Avengers feels…right. It makes the game feel that much more special and removed any expectations I may have had about what the various superheroes should or should not be able to do. I’ve watched Iron Man once on Disney+ but there was […]
Google Stadia, the virtual console/game service/whatever you want to call it, launched to very mixed reactions on November 19, 2019. At launch, there were 22 games available with only one of them, Gylt, being a Stadia exclusive title. As curious as I was about how well the service would work, the fact that I already […]
Once upon a time, in preparation for the arrival of the most highly anticipated games, I’d work on lowering my expectations for how accessible they’d be. I expect nothing, so on the off chance subtitles were done well, I can be pleasantly surprised. After doing this sort of reviewing for six years, it’s necessary to […]
It’s very hard for me to review games when I know people at the publishers and studios behind them and know they’re trying their hardest to push for accessibility, especially when the game I’m reviewing just misses the mark. Rocket Arena is one of those games. EA is doing such good a11y work and yet, […]
Courtney takes a vacation inside of Red Dead Redemption 2: "It’s nice to have a break, however momentary, from thinking about how bleak everything feels."
♫ Ohhhhhh! Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! Absorbent and yellow and porous is he! SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! ♫ I am an adult with two graduate degrees in English and literature. Two of them. And yet, here I am giddily reviewing SpongeBob, with the theme song having been stuck in my head […]