Games and Accessibility project

The aim of this project is to utilise the benefits of games in supporting designers learn about accessibility design guidelines.

In this project, we address designers' lack of engagement through a serious game called GATE which is based on the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). We followed a User-Centred approach by identifying user types of designers through an online survey. We then mapped these user types and the WCAG to relevant game mechanics. The resulting game is available as a web-based game below.

  • A selection of publications on this project are available here.
  • The game, GATE, is available here.
GATE: A serious game to improve engagement with web accessibility guidelines

GATE: the game

The game, developed in Unity, is available upon request. You can play online on a WebGL enabled browsers, or download the WebGL build for local use.

A Serious Game to Improve Engagement with Web Accessibility Guidelines

Spyridonis, F. and Daylamani-Zad, D., 2020. A serious game to improve engagement with web accessibility guidelines. Behaviour & Information Technology, pp.1-19.

A Serious Game for Raising Designer Awareness of Web Accessibility Guidelines

Spyridonis, F. and Daylamani-Zad, D., 2019. A Serious Game for Raising Designer Awareness of Web Accessibility Guidelines. In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 3-12). Springer, Cham.

The gamification of accessibility design: A proposed framework

Spyridonis, F., Daylamani-Zad, D. and Paraskevopoulos, I.T., 2017, September. The gamification of accessibility design: A proposed framework. In 2017 9th international conference on virtual worlds and games for serious applications (vs-games) (pp. 233-236). IEEE.