Consulting
Determine what keeps people out
Games, products, events, and spaces. We discover the barriers, help you create an action plan, and give your team the tools to succeed.
Accessibility consulting · Speaking · Adaptive arcades
We live accessibility every day.
Now we help you build it into your library, your event, your game, or your workplace.
We are Vicki and Steve. She spent 15 years making public libraries work for everyone. He spent two decades getting disabled gamers a seat at the table. There is no substitute for lived experience, and we bring ours to every project.
Vicki Karlovsky and Steve Spohn, founders of SVAccessibility
What we do
There is a whole world on the other side of “I can't.”
Playing a game with a friend. Getting into the meeting. Joining the conversation instead of watching it from the side. Small things for most people, whole worlds for anyone who has been left out. We help organizations make room for more people and show them exactly how to do it.
Speaking & workshops
Memorable talks
Real stories and practical ideas for workshops, conferences, and communities. Book Steve, Vicki, or both, in person or online.
Accessible arcades
Bring play closer to everyone
We help libraries and community spaces bring adaptive gaming to where people already gather, from choosing equipment to a full on-site build.
We work with libraries, corporations, game developers, event planners, care settings, and community organizations.
Adapted controllers from Deerfield Public Library’s arcade. Photo: Vicki Karlovsky.
Adaptive gaming
The right controls let everyone play together.
A hub for switches and buttons. A joystick you work with your mouth. An eye tracker that turns where you look into a click. Adaptive gaming starts with the person, then finds the setup that fits.
- Xbox Adaptive ControllerA hub for switches, buttons and joysticks
- QuadStick FPSMouth joystick with sip-and-puff inputs
- Tobii Dynavox PCEyeEye gaze becomes computer control
- Logitech Adaptive Gaming KitButtons placed where movement works
Look around a full adaptive station, piece by piece.
Recognition
Recognized on big stages and in local libraries
Steve’s work has been honored at GDC, SXSW, and The Game Awards. Vicki’s Deerfield programs are featured in a handbook for librarians. Different stages, same goal: more people taking part.
$5M+helped raise for charity across Steve’s career
Steve · GDC 2022
Ambassador Award
Steve accepts the GDC 2022 Ambassador Award for his work in game accessibility.
Nintendo Life · 2021
$1M+ raised in under a year
Steve · Fundraiser
Spawn Together
Steve’s Spawn Together campaign raised more than $1 million for charity in less than a year, ahead of schedule.
ALA Annual · Philadelphia · 2025
Adaptive Arcade at the Library
Steve + Vicki · Presenters
Video Games Are for Everyone
Vicki and Steve’s session on bringing adaptive gaming to public libraries was covered by American Libraries.
GDCAmbassador AwardSteve · 2022
SXSWGame Industry Champion of ChangeSteve · 2020
The Game AwardsGlobal Gaming CitizenSteve · 2018
ShacknewsPerson of the YearSteve · 2020
Tempest AwardsLuminarySteve · 2023
Center for Enriched LivingCommunity Partner of the YearVicki · Library team honor · 2016
XboxCareer collaboration
PlayStationCareer collaboration
Career collaboration
Career collaboration
Career collaboration
Career collaboration
Logitech GCareer collaboration
RazerCareer collaboration
CorsairCareer collaboration
Electronic ArtsCareer collaboration
UbisoftCareer collaboration
Speaking & appearances
Deerfield Public LibraryCommunity connection
Career collaboration
In the mediaWho will you work with
You work directly with Vicki and Steve.
We know what access means to a person and what it takes to make it happen inside an organization.
Vicki Karlovsky
Co-founder · Library and accessibility consultant
Vicki spent 15 years in public libraries, including as Inclusion Coordinator at the Deerfield Public Library (IL), where she developed the PLACE programs for adults with developmental disabilities and created Library Lifelines for seniors and disabled adults. She holds a master’s degree in social work.
Steve Spohn
Co-founder · Accessibility consultant
Steve spent two decades getting disabled players into the conversation, from game studios to the GDC stage, and helped raise more than $5 million for charity along the way. He brings the view from the other side of the barrier.
Vicki and Steve, the real couple
Off the clock · Interdisabled In Love
Want to see accessibility in real life? Watch ours.
On our YouTube channel, Interdisabled In Love, we share what life actually looks like for a real disabled couple: chronic illness, moving in together, and navigating an inaccessible world. It is honest, funny, and highlights the lived experience we bring to your project.
- We’re Disabled. Sell Us on Your Idea of Fun. We put ten activities other people love to the test.
- Do We Ever Get to Be Alone? Moving in together when nurses and family are part of every day.
- We’re Disabled. These Stock Photos Have Some Explaining to Do. Real representation, or not? We review ten stock photos of disabled people.
New videos Every Wednesday
How it works
We take you from “How do we?” to “We did it!”
Tell us who you want to reach and what gets in the way. We will shape a proposal around the support your team needs.
Find your way in.
Start with a conversation about your needs, goals, and setting.
Make the plan yours.
Clear recommendations, realistic priorities, and a scope we agree on together.
Put it into practice.
Choose remote guidance, hands-on support, and training that helps the work last.
Talk with us
Let's get to work.
Prefer email? steve@svaccessibility.com or vicki@svaccessibility.com
GDC photographs: Official GDC, CC BY 2.0. Resized for the web and cropped to fit.