Acessibilidade em jogos digitais: análise de recursos atuais de acessibilidade em jogos digitais de cartas colecionáveis para deficientes visuais

Abstract

Digital card games represent an enormous socio-economic relevance, in the terms of the current entertainment industry. However, in their majority, most digital card games don't employ the needed policies and/or guidelines. Simultaneously, most of the digital card collecting games are impossible for the impaired to access, especially the visually handicapped, since a large share of the ressources destined to accessibility is underused in their development. So, with the intention of promoting solutions e adaptations for the inclusion of social space, researchers, communities and so on have been developing accessibility resources for the inclusion of visually impaired people. Therefore, we remark that there is social exclusion in the digital card collecting game ́s world, as described by the lack of assistive tools. This research highlights the analysis of the resources used digital games, especially the before mentioned famous card games, as well as the lack of accessibility in the current applications, this research has been based on the knowledge of the visually impaired for the subject in analysis, the understanding of the application of the games mechanics, and the following of guidelines regarding the use of the accessibility the presented technology. Utilizing the resources, it has been noted that there are applications developed exclusively for the inclusion of impaired people, these which are the base for generic study of the application of said resources and have confirmed the validity of the proposal of this research. It was also described, along this study, the utilized processes, as well as some reflexions regarding the research and its result.