Vol. 13 No. 1 (2022): MEDIA EDUCATION – Studi, ricerche e buone pratiche
Best practices

48 Hours to make animation accessible

Enrico Bisenzi
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
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Alessandro Carducci
Cardeis Art
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Published 2022-05-04

Keywords

  • accessible animations,
  • inclusive design,
  • adaptive storytelling,
  • adaptive user interfaces,
  • media education practices

Abstract

The article presents an inclusive design toolkit made up of User Interface and Storytelling solutions with the aim to support animators and video creators to design accessible animations. Technical solutions are presented in order to satisfy disabled people’s needs with special regard to challenges such as blindness, deafness, color blindness, epileptic, cognitive impaired and dyslexic peoples and outlining the importance of a proper implementation of open and standard languages while implementing different adaptive user interfaces and storytelling for each specific target.