Abstract
Many efforts have been made in the last years to bring games accessibility to the mainstream. This starts from guidelines to research projects to accessible game development . All these research activities ask for accessibility testing. A very cost efficient and highly recommended method is the Heuristic Evaluation by Jakob Nielsen. At this kind of evaluation, a group of three to eight experts evaluates an application against ten rules, so called heuristics. The evaluators create a report and prioritise the issues found.
This paper will show which of these ten heuristics are useable in testing accessible games. Additional and alternative heuristics, which are necessary for testing accessible games, have been developed. This paper proposes a set of heuristics to standardise accessibility tests. The application of the heuristics to test the usability of an accessible game helps in discussing the usefulness of the approach. Finally, the paper will give an overview to other activities in mainstream game accessibility.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 2008 Accessible Design in the Digital World Conference (ADDW). York, UK, 23-24 September 2008, Proceedings on CD-Rom. |
| Editors | Petrie, Helen |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Fields of science
- 102 Computer Sciences
- 102013 Human-computer interaction
- 102014 Information design
- 102015 Information systems
- 102021 Pervasive computing
- 102022 Software development
- 102024 Usability research
- 102026 Virtual reality
- 102027 Web engineering
- 502007 E-commerce
- 503008 E-learning
- 506002 E-government
- 509002 Disability studies
- 602013 Sign language research
- 202004 Brain-computer interface
- 211902 Assistive technologies
- 302027 Hearing, voice and language disorders
- 102036 Digital accessibility
