[games_access] Checklist for GA reviews, austrian ministry

[Sandra Uhling]

Hi Thomas,

my experience is that you have to test the whole game.
Or you are lucky and the publisher knows it very well.

Sometimes there is a sound-only or a color-only puzzle.
Or a very hard time based puzzle. But very often you do not
notice these difficulties. 

Also there is the information: subtitle, the quality can be very bad.
(You see lots of B ratings, but very seldom A rating at deafgamers.com)


I put the update of the Top Ten list with an "easy to understand"
description on my todo list.

Best regards,
Sandra


-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: games_access-bounces at igda.org [mailto:games_access-bounces at igda.org] Im
Auftrag von Thomas Westin
Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. November 2010 23:07
An: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Betreff: Re: [games_access] Checklist for GA reviews, austrian ministry

Hi Sandra,

the top ten list we made years ago could work, it is generic enough, so you
would just need to check the settings of the game to see what options are
available to rate it,
- except for #8 audio tags, which needs some in-game checking but could be
enough to check at some random places of the game, not the entire game

http://tim.thechases.com/top10_2.pdf

Best wishes,
Thomas

--Do("orDoNot(" & QUOTE & "there is no try{}" & QUOTE & ")") 





On 23Nov 2010, at 4:13 PM, Sandra Uhling wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> one Austrian ministry rates games. They would like to add Game
Accessibility
> to this rating. Do we have information? Is there a checklist available?
> 
> I do not have any information about this.
> I think it is very difficult and lot of work to test a game.
> 
> E.g. you need to know if there is a sound that is important.
> So usually you have to play the whole game.
> And you have to care for lots of different things.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sandra
> 
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