Assessment Task

The aim of this assessment is to perform an accessibility audit of a popular website, video game, or mobile application. Your audit can either be focused from the perspective of looking for issues that could pose challenges specific populations (e.g., people with low vision, people who are Deaf or have hearing loss, people with mobility impairments) OR a general accessibility audit that can explore areas that could pose challenges to many populations.

Once you have uncovered challenges or issues within the website, video game or mobile application, you will then propose potential design or technical changes to rectify the issues and propose how they could be implemented.

Rules for this task:

·         You must perform an accessibility audit of a popular website, video game, or mobile application.

·         You should use a variety of methods to conduct your audit including: automatic tools, manually testing using accessibility features on operating systems, think-aloud sessions, cognitive walkthroughs etc.

·         Your proposed changes must be at a minimum communicated as a paper prototype, or implementation plan but could also be implemented as a fully interactive prototype using PowerPoint/Keynote, or Invision/Marvel.

Things to consider:

·         What assumptions have you made about the population(s) you are auditing for?

·         What guidelines or standards are you auditing against?

·         What unique considerations must you employ in regards to the website, video game or mobile application you have chosen?

·         How will you ensure your proposed changes are also accessible?

Submission Format

The following should be submitted to Brightspace as a report in a PDF file.

·         A description of your audit process and rationales, tools used, ways of checking accessibility

·         A set of personas and user assumptions, which you have used to help conduct your audit.

·         A detailed plan of the additional primary research you think you would need with end-users to confirm the issues you have identified.

·         A prototype or an annotated design proposal.

The assignment report should not exceed 2000 words and 10 pages (including images, diagrams, tables), must be saved in PDF format and submitted on Brightspace by the deadline. References are not included in the word or page count. You also need to state the word count on the front page of the report.