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Accessibility of a Social Network Game

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The social network Facebook is one of the largest social communities in the internet, where people meet online to post messages and pictures, chat and play games. While Facebook is accessible, Framville, the most played online game, embedded in Facebook, is not accessible for several user groups. This work will give a short overview about state of the art in games accessibility and will give a detailed view about accessibility issues in Fameville and the used technology, Flash. Additionally, possible improvements for Farmville and positive examples of accessible Flash games will be shown.

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  1. Institute Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstr. 69, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Roland Ossmann & Klaus Miesenberger

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  1. Institut Integriert Studieren, University of Linz, Altenbergerstraße 49, 4040, Linz, Austria

    Klaus Miesenberger

  2. Studienzentrum fuer Sehgeschaedigte, Universitaet Karlsruhe (TH), Germany

    Joachim Klaus

  3. fortec - Research Group on Rehabilitation Technology, Institute integrated study, Vienna Univ. of Technology, Favoritenstr. 11/029, A 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Wolfgang Zagler

  4. University of San Francisco The Universal Math Access Lab, 281 Masonic San Francisco, CA 94117, USA

    Arthur Karshmer

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Ossmann, R., Miesenberger, K. (2010). Accessibility of a Social Network Game. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14097-6_39

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