10.3. Design challenge strategy
10.3. Design challenge strategy
Part of Milestone B — packet due Thu Oct 22, 2026, by 4:10pm ET (Timeline).
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Strategizing Accessible and Universal Design Features For Your Design Challenge
Strategizing Accessible and Universal Design Features For Your Design Challenge
Develop an Accessible and/or Universal Design Strategy for your Design Challenge project. After reviewing the material on this page, choose one category from the menu below for the appropriate instructional materials for your Design Challenge project.
Overview
Overview
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes access to information as a human right. This convention was ratified by 180 countries including the U.S. T
Accessible Design is the technical minimum accommodation required by laws such as the Americans With Disabilities Act. It allows for the separation of the disabled from their abled counterparts when consuming media. Designers are inadvertently encouraged, to create separate and unequal experiences. Accessible design is, however, far better than non-accessible design.
The universal design approach goes beyond the technical requirements for the accommodation of persons with disabilities and towards their full participation in media, game and digital life. Universal design allows people of all abilities to experience media together, at the same time, in the same place. Universal design integrates accessibility features in a way that benefits everyone. Research has shown that optimizing technical attainability, sensory responsiveness, and cognitive load improves learning and retention for all sensory abilities.
Document Your Strategy
Document Your Strategy
This strategy will be integrated into your design challenge project and will drive many of the decisions you make during the journey-mapping, flow-charting, and wire-framing processes.
It can be a written document (with optional sketches) that lists the features that will be included in the game, multimedia application, video, or website, and will benefit, sight, hearing, and neurodiverse persons.
The plan should be organized in (5) sections: Accessible and/or Universal Design for:
Fully blind
Sight impaired and color-blind
Deaf and hard of hearing
Physically disabled
Cognitively disabled (neurodiverse)
Before starting
Review the example strategy document below.
Use the menu above to choose the instructional content for the type of media you will be addressing in your Design Challenge.
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