- From: Mathew Atkinson <matkinson@paciellogroup.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:40:20 +0000
- To: "public-games@w3.org" <public-games@w3.org>
Hello, Good to virtually meet you all. I've made a formal request to join this group, as I heard about the effort to reboot it. If there's anything I can contribute from a game accessibility perspective I'd be happy to help. I attended the (awesome) W3C Workshop on Web Games last year and co-presented in the accessibility session. I'm a member of the W3C's Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) working group and we would be happy for me to act as a liaison with this group if you would like. The proposed charter mentions the APA group, which is great, though it doesn't mention accessibility in any other capacity. Perhaps we could include some consideration of accessibility in the charter (via the scope of work section, perhaps) directly too? In case it's of interest, since the workshop, I made a proof-of-concept demo of connecting web games' UIs to assistive technologies; there's an article on 24 Accessibility that explains the background, technique and plans in more detail. * Article: https://www.24a11y.com/2019/game-accessibility-and-the-web/ * Demo: http://matatk.agrip.org.uk/web-game-accessibility-explorations/page-sdl.html * GitHub repo: https://github.com/matatk/web-game-accessibility-explorations Two of the main game engines (Unreal and Unity) have also been working on interfacing directly with screen-readers, which is excellent news for the industry as a whole. I'm not sure if any of the main game engines support talking to screen-readers when the games are compiled for the web; more research needed. As discussed in the article, there are a couple of directions in which I'd like to take this further: applying it to existing game GUIs and using the Accessibility Object Model (AOM) as the supporting technology. I hope this has been of interest and look forward to contributing to the group. best regards, Matthew -- Matthew Tylee Atkinson -- Senior Accessibility Engineer The Paciello Group https://www.paciellogroup.com A Vispero Company https://vispero.com -- This message is intended to be confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this message from your system and notify us immediately. Any disclosure, copying, distribution or action taken or omitted to be taken by an unintended recipient in reliance on this message is prohibited and may be unlawful.
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