Diretrizes de acessibilidade para jogos em dispositivos móveis

Abstract

With the growth of the global market for mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones, and their software and hardware power, the demand for more complex applications is increasing. Along with these advances, the gaming market for these devices also follows an ascending line by being an important source of income for industries in the sector. The vast majority of delivered games is not accessible, thus preventing that people with disabilities enjoy the full experience provided by them. Market pressure and lack of guidelines for the development of accessible games contribute to accessibility criteria not be met in game development by its developers. The creation of a document that provides support for developers is important to try to provide assistance so that accessibility is ensured in games, since most of the developers do not know how to ensure accessibility in their games and in some cases they have no idea of what accessibility games is (GARBER, 2013). Thus the purpose of this study is to develop an document containing a collection of accessibility guidelines for games on mobile devices. Guidelines were investigated using a content analysis process. Subsequently, the recommendations were organized in a document following the template proposed by WCAG and they were validated with the use of guidelines to assess accessibility in a mobile game by evaluators. With the results, it was possible to investigate the unconformities with the goal to find out the main causes of the problem and repair the guidelines. The development of this work has resulted in a collection of accessibility guidelines for games on mobile devices, validated by evaluation of a game by non-expert users, taking into account the observations recorded by both the evaluators and the activity observer in order to improve the recommendations.