Accessibility and Representation: 

• Ways of making games more accessible

  • Allow the rebinding of keys

  • Colour blindness settings

  • Alternative settings for hard of hearing people

  • Volume and brightness sliders

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Microsoft.com/design

• Inclusive design section

  • Toolkit around inclusive design principles

• Short clip:

  • Inclusive design is about considering the full range of human diversity

  • Issues include curb cuts and wheelchair ramps

    • Has widened over time

  • Microsoft's voice to text AI

    • Used for language translation and provides real-time subtitles

  • Inclusivethefilm.com

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Kat Holmes video:

• How inclusion shapes design

• Grew up in Oakland, California

  • Diversity was always a conversation whilst growing up

• Discovered the importance of inclusive design while working with Microsoft

  • Previously worked as an engineer designing prosthetics

• Inclusion vs Exclusion = To shut in and to shut out

• Long Island Expressway

  • Designed by Robert Moses - Architect who was demonstrably racist

  • Underpass is 7ft 7inches, which is ever so slightly too low for a public bus, which was the primary mode of transport for African Americans

• 70% of websites break accessibility laws

• Disability does not = Personal health condition, disability = mismatched human interaction

• Mismatches are the building blocks of exclusion

  • Public toilet sensors

    • Difficult to use for blind people, people who are dyslexic and cant read the sign, children, people without the motor capabilities to use the sensor

• Every day items designed for inclusivity

  • Flexible Straws

  • Typewriters

  • Email

  • Xbox adaptive controller

• "The end of average" - Todd Rose

  • Standard deviation of human bodies (bell curve)

    • The middle is not just average, but is instead the perfect human

    • Evidence of this still being prevalent in society is clear

    • BMI, objects that assume size/ability (right handed school desks)