An Exploration of Genres
An Accessible and Multicultural Look at Popular Genres of MediA
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Summary
This guide will take you on an exploration of several genres, highlighting diverse media with accessibility features you may not have considered. Furthermore, each genre has different ways to access stories in order to highlight accessibility and diversity.
Table of Contents
Horror
Romance
Fantasy
Mystery
Science Fiction
Horror
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
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Romance
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
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Fantasy
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
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Mystery
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
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Science Fiction
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
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Accessibility Matters:
Across all forms of media, accessibility matters so that everyone can enjoy life-changing and diverse stories. Here are some more resources for accessibility for the selections.
Open Dyslexic: XBOX Accessible Game Controller: PlayStation Accessible Game Controller: ScreenReader for Google Chrome: VoiceBot for PC Gaming: Tobii Eye Tracker:
A Quiet Place
A thriller about a family surviving in a world where monsters are hypersensitive to sound, forcing them to live in near-complete silence. The film uses extensive American Sign Language and offers captions and audio options, making it accessible for viewers who are deaf, hard of hearing, or visually impaired.
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Follows a diverse cast of residents in a creepy London apartment building, each facing unique hauntings that feed on their fears and struggles. The audiobook features thirteen distinct narrators, making each perspective vivid and accessible for listeners who are visually impaired or benefit from varied vocal storytelling.
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
A horror podcast set in a small town where strange events are treated as normal, featuring a diverse cast of characters, including LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent perspectives. Its audio format is accessible for listeners who are visually impaired, with transcripts available for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, and adjustable playback supports different processing needs.
The Quarry
Is your typical summer camp slasher-- or is it? It features an engaging cast of characters and offers a wide range of accessibility options, including the ability to adjust or disable Quick Time Events, toggle aim assist, and customize visual and auditory settings for a more inclusive gaming experience.
Date Everything
A game about falling in love and... corporate control? In this game, you can literally date everything. This leads to an incredibly diverse cast of characters with different backgrounds and cultures. Accessibility features include fully voiced dialogue with on-screen text, a content-aware mode to skip triggering material, and in-game tools to help track character interactions.
The Hundred Foot Journey
A feel-good movie about cooking, culture, and passion, The Hundred-Foot Journey follows Hassan and his family, who move from India to France after his mother’s death. They open a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French eatery, blending cuisines, traditions, and featuring a heartfelt romance.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Follows Chloe, a brilliant woman with a chronic illness, as she decides to “get a life” and finds love, adventure, and self-discovery with her love interest, Red Morgan. The audiobook is praised for its vivid narration, and makes reading this book accessible.
Love and Luck by Erin Kyan
an audio drama about a queer couple in Melbourne, produced by a team that includes queer and disabled creators. The podcast includes full transcripts for accessibility and adjustable playback speed, making it easy for all listeners to enjoy.
How to Train Your Dragon
While most selections so far have focused on adult content, this film is included for its disability representation in a feel-good story about dragons not being as evil as they first seem. As with most Disney movies, you can change the audio language at will and use descriptive audio for accessibility.
Rusty Quill Gaming
Is a real-play Pathfinder podcast. This podcast features incredibly diverse characters, compelling storylines, and teaches listeners to play Pathfinder, an RPG system like Dungeons and Dragons. Transcripts are available online, as well as the ability to change the speed of the podcast in order to suit any processing needs.
Date Everything
A game about becoming the chosen wizard, with a fully customizable character of any gender. Your character interacts with witches and wizards from many backgrounds, ethnicities, and races, and the game includes text-to-speech, customizable subtitles, colorblind modes, adjustable difficulty, and full control remapping for an inclusive experience.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Follows Rin, a war orphan who rises through the ranks of a prestigious military academy in a fantastical version of China. The story explores power, identity, and cultural heritage, blending military strategy, magic, and complex characters. The audiobook is narrated by an excellent narrator with the ability to change speed for those with different processing speeds/
Creator's Note
The creator of this presentation does not condone or endorse any of J.K. Rowling's views or opinions on transgender individuals. The diversity present in this game is in SPITE of her, not because of her.
The Penumbra Podcast's Juno Steel
Juno Steel is a noir detective who lives on Mars. His travels and mysteries bring him in contact with many people of diverse backgrounds and cultures, as well as many LGBTQIA+ characters and different species of aliens and cyborgs. The Penumbra Podcast provides full transcripts for each episode, making it accessible for listeners who are deaf, hard of hearing, or benefit from visual reading alongside audio.
Nancy Drew Series
Adventure games which let players step into the shoes of the iconic teen detective, solving mysteries through puzzles, exploration, and clever sleuthing. The series features diverse characters and settings, and includes accessibility options like subtitles, adjustable difficulty, clear navigation cues, and customizable audio. Three stand-out games include The Shattered Medallion, which highlights a global cast of characters; Sea of Darkness, featuring the series’ first canon queer character; and The Creature of Kapu Cave, which offers high-contrast visuals and audio cues for players with visual impairments.
Murder on the Orient Express
This story, originally by Agatha Christie, was expanded and diversified for the movie. Various nationalities are represented among the characters on the train. Where the movie is currently streaming, boosted dialogue is available for those with hearing impairments, along with captions and audio language options.
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Follows two Black students at an elite private school as a mysterious figure threatens their futures. Available as an audiobook and eBook with adjustable playback, text resizing, and screen reader support, the story mixes suspense, romance, and sharp social commentary on race, power, and privilege.
Creator's Note
If the creator of this presentation can recommend you consume one singular piece of media from this entire presentation, it is this. Juno Steel is a piece of media that changed my life, and one of the best mystery podcasts around.
Link to Juno Steel Episode 1
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
follows two rival time-traveling agents, Red and Blue, whose secret correspondence across timelines turns into a romance. The story highlights LGBTQ+ love, features women in central roles, and mixes poetic language with cultural and literary influences. It’s available as an audiobook and eBook with adjustable playback, text resizing, and screen reader support, making it accessible for all readers and listeners.
Midnight Burger
JA delightfully dense and sci-fi heavy comedic show about a diner that is actually a space-and-time-hopping entity. This show features as its main character a Mexican-American woman named Gloria whose taqueria was shut down during COVID-19. The staff of Midnight Burger comes into contact with many alien species representing a lot of human conflicts. Transcripts are available in multiple formats, including ebook formats to adjust font and follow along.
CyberPunk 2077
Diversity starts with creating your own character in Cyberpunk 2077. You can choose your character’s name, gender, race, and other features, making them as gender-neutral or unique as you like. Diversity is also reflected in the NPC population, including cybernetic enhancements representing disabilities and storylines exploring socioeconomic differences. Accessibility features include colorblind modes, subtitle options, aim assist, and the ability to disable timed minigames.
Guardians of the Galaxy
This series uses alien species to highlight the diversity of the human experience, highlighting race, socieconomic status, and other diverse storylines. On streaming, this series has the ability to change audio language, employ captions, and audio description for those with hearing impairments.
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An Exploration of Genres
An Accessible and Multicultural Look at Popular Genres of MediA
START
Summary
This guide will take you on an exploration of several genres, highlighting diverse media with accessibility features you may not have considered. Furthermore, each genre has different ways to access stories in order to highlight accessibility and diversity.
Table of Contents
Horror
Romance
Fantasy
Mystery
Science Fiction
Horror
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
Romance
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
Fantasy
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
Mystery
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
Science Fiction
Podcast
Book
Game
Movie
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
+ INFO
Accessibility Matters:
Across all forms of media, accessibility matters so that everyone can enjoy life-changing and diverse stories. Here are some more resources for accessibility for the selections.
Open Dyslexic: XBOX Accessible Game Controller: PlayStation Accessible Game Controller: ScreenReader for Google Chrome: VoiceBot for PC Gaming: Tobii Eye Tracker:
A Quiet Place
A thriller about a family surviving in a world where monsters are hypersensitive to sound, forcing them to live in near-complete silence. The film uses extensive American Sign Language and offers captions and audio options, making it accessible for viewers who are deaf, hard of hearing, or visually impaired.
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Follows a diverse cast of residents in a creepy London apartment building, each facing unique hauntings that feed on their fears and struggles. The audiobook features thirteen distinct narrators, making each perspective vivid and accessible for listeners who are visually impaired or benefit from varied vocal storytelling.
Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor
A horror podcast set in a small town where strange events are treated as normal, featuring a diverse cast of characters, including LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent perspectives. Its audio format is accessible for listeners who are visually impaired, with transcripts available for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, and adjustable playback supports different processing needs.
The Quarry
Is your typical summer camp slasher-- or is it? It features an engaging cast of characters and offers a wide range of accessibility options, including the ability to adjust or disable Quick Time Events, toggle aim assist, and customize visual and auditory settings for a more inclusive gaming experience.
Date Everything
A game about falling in love and... corporate control? In this game, you can literally date everything. This leads to an incredibly diverse cast of characters with different backgrounds and cultures. Accessibility features include fully voiced dialogue with on-screen text, a content-aware mode to skip triggering material, and in-game tools to help track character interactions.
The Hundred Foot Journey
A feel-good movie about cooking, culture, and passion, The Hundred-Foot Journey follows Hassan and his family, who move from India to France after his mother’s death. They open a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French eatery, blending cuisines, traditions, and featuring a heartfelt romance.
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Follows Chloe, a brilliant woman with a chronic illness, as she decides to “get a life” and finds love, adventure, and self-discovery with her love interest, Red Morgan. The audiobook is praised for its vivid narration, and makes reading this book accessible.
Love and Luck by Erin Kyan
an audio drama about a queer couple in Melbourne, produced by a team that includes queer and disabled creators. The podcast includes full transcripts for accessibility and adjustable playback speed, making it easy for all listeners to enjoy.
How to Train Your Dragon
While most selections so far have focused on adult content, this film is included for its disability representation in a feel-good story about dragons not being as evil as they first seem. As with most Disney movies, you can change the audio language at will and use descriptive audio for accessibility.
Rusty Quill Gaming
Is a real-play Pathfinder podcast. This podcast features incredibly diverse characters, compelling storylines, and teaches listeners to play Pathfinder, an RPG system like Dungeons and Dragons. Transcripts are available online, as well as the ability to change the speed of the podcast in order to suit any processing needs.
Date Everything
A game about becoming the chosen wizard, with a fully customizable character of any gender. Your character interacts with witches and wizards from many backgrounds, ethnicities, and races, and the game includes text-to-speech, customizable subtitles, colorblind modes, adjustable difficulty, and full control remapping for an inclusive experience.
The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang
Follows Rin, a war orphan who rises through the ranks of a prestigious military academy in a fantastical version of China. The story explores power, identity, and cultural heritage, blending military strategy, magic, and complex characters. The audiobook is narrated by an excellent narrator with the ability to change speed for those with different processing speeds/
Creator's Note
The creator of this presentation does not condone or endorse any of J.K. Rowling's views or opinions on transgender individuals. The diversity present in this game is in SPITE of her, not because of her.
The Penumbra Podcast's Juno Steel
Juno Steel is a noir detective who lives on Mars. His travels and mysteries bring him in contact with many people of diverse backgrounds and cultures, as well as many LGBTQIA+ characters and different species of aliens and cyborgs. The Penumbra Podcast provides full transcripts for each episode, making it accessible for listeners who are deaf, hard of hearing, or benefit from visual reading alongside audio.
Nancy Drew Series
Adventure games which let players step into the shoes of the iconic teen detective, solving mysteries through puzzles, exploration, and clever sleuthing. The series features diverse characters and settings, and includes accessibility options like subtitles, adjustable difficulty, clear navigation cues, and customizable audio. Three stand-out games include The Shattered Medallion, which highlights a global cast of characters; Sea of Darkness, featuring the series’ first canon queer character; and The Creature of Kapu Cave, which offers high-contrast visuals and audio cues for players with visual impairments.
Murder on the Orient Express
This story, originally by Agatha Christie, was expanded and diversified for the movie. Various nationalities are represented among the characters on the train. Where the movie is currently streaming, boosted dialogue is available for those with hearing impairments, along with captions and audio language options.
Ace of Spades by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
Follows two Black students at an elite private school as a mysterious figure threatens their futures. Available as an audiobook and eBook with adjustable playback, text resizing, and screen reader support, the story mixes suspense, romance, and sharp social commentary on race, power, and privilege.
Creator's Note
If the creator of this presentation can recommend you consume one singular piece of media from this entire presentation, it is this. Juno Steel is a piece of media that changed my life, and one of the best mystery podcasts around.
Link to Juno Steel Episode 1
This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
follows two rival time-traveling agents, Red and Blue, whose secret correspondence across timelines turns into a romance. The story highlights LGBTQ+ love, features women in central roles, and mixes poetic language with cultural and literary influences. It’s available as an audiobook and eBook with adjustable playback, text resizing, and screen reader support, making it accessible for all readers and listeners.
Midnight Burger
JA delightfully dense and sci-fi heavy comedic show about a diner that is actually a space-and-time-hopping entity. This show features as its main character a Mexican-American woman named Gloria whose taqueria was shut down during COVID-19. The staff of Midnight Burger comes into contact with many alien species representing a lot of human conflicts. Transcripts are available in multiple formats, including ebook formats to adjust font and follow along.
CyberPunk 2077
Diversity starts with creating your own character in Cyberpunk 2077. You can choose your character’s name, gender, race, and other features, making them as gender-neutral or unique as you like. Diversity is also reflected in the NPC population, including cybernetic enhancements representing disabilities and storylines exploring socioeconomic differences. Accessibility features include colorblind modes, subtitle options, aim assist, and the ability to disable timed minigames.
Guardians of the Galaxy
This series uses alien species to highlight the diversity of the human experience, highlighting race, socieconomic status, and other diverse storylines. On streaming, this series has the ability to change audio language, employ captions, and audio description for those with hearing impairments.