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Automation of Accessibility Enhancements for eAdventure Games
The document discusses the importance of accessibility in educational games for various student populations, including those with visual impairments and cognitive disabilities. It emphasizes the need for automatic and semi-automatic methodologies to enhance accessibility features and improve user experience. The goal is to streamline the process of adapting games to be inclusive while addressing ethical, legal, and economic considerations.
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Automation of Accessibility Enhancements for eAdventure Games
- 1. Automatic and Semiautomatic Methodologies
- 2. More research is More games are Increasing available available acceptance 2
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- 5. Incompatibility software with screen Need to respond readers quickly Story is too complex and Poor contrast Game speed cannot be cannot be followed Vital clues given configured in cutscenes Incompatibility No subtitles with special 5
- 6. Ethical issue Ageing population Legal issues Beneficial for all Economic issues 6
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- 8. Pedagogical design Good game mechanics Appealing storyboard / Narrative Art resources Testing … 8
- 9. Goal: Make dealingwith accessibility as effortless and easy as possible 9
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- 14. 100% Automatic Process Game with Game with Game adapted adapted Author (s) interface 1 interface N Student 1 Student N … Game description Accessibility Accessibility Accessibility files (xml) & resources module 1 module 2 module M Game editor core (jpeg, avi, …) Game engine core 14
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- 16. Module activation /deactivation (Fully automatic process) 16
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- 19. Blind students Students with reduced mobility in hands Low vision students (New) Students with slight cognitive disability (New) 19
- 20. SemiAutomatic Process Game with Game with Game Author adapted adapted (s) interface 1 interface N Student 1 Student N … Game description Accessibility Accessibility Accessibility files (xml) & resources module 1 module 2 module M Game editor core (jpeg, avi, …) Game engine core Access Config Access Config tool 1 tool X Additional description files (xml) + alternative resources 20
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- 23. Alternative descriptions forgame elements Alternative art resources Alternative story (students with cognitive disabilities) 23
- 24. 10 users (3blind, 4 low vision, 3 with reduced mobility) Minor intervention from researchers needed Enhanced config flexibility would be beneficial 24
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- 27. Game with Game with Game Author adapted adapted (s) interface 1 interface N Student 1 Student N … Access auditing Access auditing Game description Accessibility Accessibility Accessibility tool 1 tool Y files (xml) & resources module 1 module 2 module M Game editor core (jpeg, avi, …) Game engine core Access Config Access Config tool 1 tool X Additional description files (xml) + alternative resources 27
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- 29. Educational games shouldbe accessible Accessibility should transparent Tools are needed! 29
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