- Module 1: This module introduces accessibility concepts for game titles, gaming platforms, and gaming hardware. You'll learn about the core elements in gaming experiences that influence accessibility and how those elements can affect the experiences of gamers with visual, hearing, mobility, and cognitive disabilities.
- Assess gaming experiences through the lens of accessibility.
- Identify common visual, hearing, cognitive, and input-based elements within gaming experiences that can affect accessibility.
- Describe the importance of considering diverse player experiences when you explore accessible features and solutions.
- Module 2: Learn about the importance of collaboration with the disability community in creating accessible gaming experiences. Identify methods to build connections with these communities. Implement best practice etiquette during these collaboration sessions.
- Identify the meaning and importance of "nothing about us without us."
- Identify three potential approaches to connect with players who have disabilities to gather accessibility feedback throughout product development.
- Demonstrate an understanding of best practice etiquette for collaborating with individuals who have disabilities.
- Module 3: Learn about the types of assistive hardware and software technologies that players with disabilities use to game, and the importance of supporting these assistive technologies when you create accessible gaming products and experiences for all audiences.
- Describe common gaming software-based features and tools and how their use can affect player experiences.
- Describe common hardware-based gaming assistive technologies and how their use can affect player experiences.
- Determine appropriate methods to support assistive technology users when you develop games and platforms.
- Module 4: Learn about foundational accessibility best practice principles that you can use to guide the development of games and platforms. Also learn how to use the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines, a free online resource for developers that provides a comprehensive list of best practices organized by specific game elements and features.
- Describe the foundational best practice concepts of customization, representation through multiple sensory channels, and support of multiple ways of task completion for game and platform experiences.
- Demonstrate proper implementation of these concepts in development scenarios.
- Identify components within the Xbox Accessibility Guidelines and demonstrate how they can be used to locate best practices relevant to the experiences you develop.
- Module 5: Learn how to create more accessible standard gaming hardware products, such as game consoles, controllers, and headsets. Discover ways to design hardware packaging that features accessible components to improve the unboxing experience of more customers.
- The role of accessible design in standard gaming hardware development.
- Accessibility best practices to consider for hardware component operation and discoverability.
- Accessibility best practices to consider when you develop hardware packaging components.
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