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I'm incredibly happy to announce that something me and my (former) team at the TH Köln and Fachstelle für Jugendmedienkultur NRW worked on for the past two years is finally available:

An archive of Open Educational Resources focusing on gaming and accessibility!

https://www.twillo.de/edu-sharing/components/collections?id=a3ed75b1-a23c-4e42-ad75-b1a23c1e4264

https://www.youtube.com/@InclusiveGameLab

As a game developer, you can use these to educate yourself about accessibility and how to improve your projects; if you're a media educator, you'll learn more about using games to foster inclusion. And if you are a student, you may recommend them to your teachers, as we've also added some lesson plans and tasks. Every session focuses on one subtopic and consists of a script, a presentation, and a recorded talk.

#Gaming #GameDevelopment #Accessibility #OER

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Nina Kiel 1d ago

We took great care in making the materials themselves accessible, too: Everything is screen reader-compatible, the scripts are mostly written in non-academic language, and the slides were created with both cognitive and visual accessibility in mind. All video recordings are equipped with closed captions.

And finally: While working on this project, we noticed that there are very few non-copyrighted photos showing gamers with disabilities – so we created an image archive, as well! You can find our work on Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=InclusiveGameLab&title=Special%3AMediaSearch&type=image

You're free to download, modify, and share all of these materials, as they're licensed as CC BY SA 4.0. So the only thing you have to do is attribute us and share your modified materials with the same license, there are no other limitations.

The materials were developed as part of the project "InclusiveGameLab", funded by the German Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).

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Journeys In Film 1d ago

@Beurkeek This looks amazing!