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I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about how blind and low vision gamers are taking the video out of video games with Cornell University

professor Andrew Campana. Then you'll learn about a recently discovered

fossil that shatters the record for the oldest DNA we've ever found.

Let's shatter the record for satisfying some curiosity. for the And I'm not just saying that because I'm a gamer.

In 2020, people spent nearly 12 billion dollars on gaming in the US alone.

But not everyone gets to join in in the fun.

Blind and low vision players have to use workarounds

to play video games.

I mean, video is in the name.

But there's a revolution happening,

and today's guests is gonna tell us all about it.

Andrew Campana is an assistant professor of modern and contemporary Japanese literature

in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University,

and he's been researching how communities of

blind and low vision players stay in the game. Here's what he told us when I asked

him how blind people are playing video games. As long as games have existed really,

there have been a lot of initiatives to make them more accessible

to different types of people.

But video games, you know, the biases in the title, that the video right there, the assumption that you know you need to see in order to play these things.

But turns out that's not totally true. I mean, if you go back to the 70s, there was even electronic games like Simon or

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