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  • Teaching Accessibility Awareness with Games

    Greg Gay · 2021 · Proceedings of the 18th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper presents the Accessibility Maze, a web-based serious game developed at Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) to teach web accessibility basics through experiential learning. The game was designed with three goals: provide a high-impact introduction…

    education accessibility · game accessibility · web accessibility · screen readers · keyboard accessibility

  • Multi-touch Exploration and Sonification of Line Segments

    Dragan Ahmetovic, Cristian Bernareggi, Sergio Mascetti, Federico Pini · 2021 · Proceedings of the 18th International Web for All Conference (W4A)

    This paper presents SoundLines, a mobile app designed to help children with visual impairments develop spatial exploration skills through touchscreen interaction coupled with audio (sonification) feedback. The app is structured as a game where a kitten must be guided to find its…

    visual impairment · sonification · spatial cognition · mobile accessibility · tactile accessibility

  • Beyond Fun: Players' Experiences of Accessible Rehabilitation Gaming for Spinal Cord Injury

    Gabriele Cimolino, Sussan Askari, T.C. Nicholas Graham · 2021 · The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2021)

    This paper explores how accessible rehabilitation games can affect the experiences of patients with spinal cord injury beyond simply making exercise more fun. Six participants with spinal cord injury (three with tetraplegia, three with paraplegia, aged 23-33) played three…

    spinal cord injury · rehabilitation · game accessibility · digital games · assistive technology

  • Echolocation as a Means for People with Visual Impairment (PVI) to Acquire Spatial Knowledge of Virtual Space

    Ronny Andrade, Jenny Waycott, Steven Baker, Frank Vetere · 2021 · ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

    This study investigates whether echolocation—the use of sound reflections to perceive spatial information—can enable people with visual impairment (PVI) to acquire spatial knowledge of virtual environments. The researchers built a virtual world using Unity 3D and the SteamAudio…

    visual impairment · blindness · echolocation · virtual reality · gaming

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