Criação de um guia para aplicação de diretrizes de acessibilidade em jogos sérios: um estudo de caso para deficientes intelectuais

Abstract

Web accessibility should be considered in application development, especially to serve people with disabilities. The lack of a guide with guidelines for developing serious games for this target audience motivated this research. This work created a guide for applying accessibility guidelines to serious games for people with intellectual disabilities. The creation of the guide began with a theoretical study of the literature on the subject and an in-depth study of existing guidelines in articles, the World Wide Web Consortium, and the Game Accessibility Guidelines. Additionally, three games developed in the Software Development project at LESIC/UTFPR-PR were evaluated by students with intellectual disabilities from a partner institution of the project, and a questionnaire was created to measure the accessibility of serious games. Subsequently, quantitative and especially qualitative data were analyzed to assess which guidelines are relevant to the serious games to be developed. The quantitative results show a lack of understanding in the responses due to the students' low cognitive abilities. The information obtained through observation and study of the students' needs and difficulties resulted in the guide for applying the guidelines. The guide is divided into three categories: Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced, in which serious game developers should meet the Basic level and may choose to use the guidelines from the other two levels.