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Virtual Labs Accessibility Review

Accessibility for educational games is a work in progress across the industry. We continually seek solutions to make our products fully accessible and we strive to adhere to established standards for accessibility and usability on each new project. In this statement, we summarize the accessibility features included with the Virtual Labs, so that learners are better able to maximize and tailor their learning experience to fit their own personal learning style.

Content of Application:

Virtual Labs is a series of eight modules that help students learn basic laboratory techniques and practice methods used by lab technicians and researchers in a variety of careers, using specific food science lab processes.

It is easy for consumers to take safe food for granted: as most people don’t understand the rigorous testing, research and assessment food and food processing requires. Healthy, safe food is of extreme importance and vital to human survival. Expert lab technicians help make sure that the food we eat and feed to our animals will not harm us or our livestock.

Approach & Input Device:

Virtual Labs are built in HTML5 and can be accessed from a web-based browser. The modules are not supported by screen reading software, however professionally voiced narration of on-screen text is included throughout. Virtual Labs are available as apps for iPads. These apps can be found on the App Store.

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Approach & Input Device:

Virtual Labs are built in HTML5 and can be accessed from a web-based browser.

The modules are not supported by screen reading software, however professionally voiced narration of on-screen text is included throughout.

Virtual Labs are available as apps for iPads. These apps can be found on the App Store.

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Language

This interactive and its supporting materials are available in English.

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Interactivity & Navigation:

Virtual Lab modules are navigable through both mouse clicking and using keystrokes.

Commands such as “continue” have a letter, in this case C, underlined to indicate which keystroke to use to activate the command.

The keystroke R is used for repeating narration. This keystroke is not displayed on screen but activates a button showing the “repeat animation” icon.

Supplementary Material:

For those who prefer videos to an interactive webpage, gameplay videos of each Virtual Lab are available on the Learning Games Lab YouTube channel.

Gameplay Videos

For Teacher

Additional supporting materials for educators were created by South Dakota State University Extension. These materials can be accessed at Food Safety Scientist: A Dynamic STEM Educational Adventure


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