PowerUp: an accessible virtual world

Shari Trewin; Vicki L. Hanson; Mark R. Laff; Anna Cavender

doi:10.1145/1414471.1414504

PowerUp: an accessible virtual world

Shari Trewin, Vicki L. Hanson, Mark R. Laff, Anna Cavender

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Abstract

PowerUp is a multi-player virtual world educational game with a broad set of accessibility features built in. This paper considers what features are necessary to make virtual worlds usable by individuals with a range of perceptual, physical, and cognitive disabilities. The accessibility features were included in the PowerUp game and validated, to date, with blind and partially sighted users. These features include in-world navigation and orientation tools, font customization, self-voicing text-to-speech output, and keyboard-only and mouse-only navigation. We discuss user requirements gathering, the validation study, and further work needed.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ASSETS'08
Subtitle of host publication	the 10th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	177-184
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781595939760
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1414471.1414504
Publication status	Published - 2008

Keywords

Design
Human factors
3D
Virtual worlds
Accessibility

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