Adaptation and equivalence of codes in the design of a board game for the visually impaired: graphic and haptic code

Abstract

The majority of graphical communications need the organ of the vision. It is for this that they are inaccessible for the persons with visual disability. In this research there are analyzed the design parameters of classic board games, there are identified those elements that influence the development of the game and one proposes an equivalence of codes. The method began with the definition of the independent variables (texture and size) and salesman (identification of elements), there were constructed the prototypes of a concrete game and checked the offer by means of a test of receipt. Of the results, the equivalence of codes is established in order that the games could be used so much by persons by visual disability as that they do not have it, expiring with the inclusive design.