Accessibility of Immersive Serious Games for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities

E-learning systems are still not very accessible for persons with disabilities, particularly those with cognitive impairments. It's well known that the training deficit is one of the cause of lower employment rates. In the past, we have addressed this issue by working on the accessibility of MOOCs. We have developed Aiana, a MOOC player with accessibility features based on the fragmentation of information streams and enabling user interface self-configuration. We are starting a new research program focused on the accessibility of immersive Serious Games for persons with cognitive impairments by first transposing some of Aiana's design principles. We believe that immersive Serious Games can provide effective assistance to learning for PWDs and we want to demonstrate this rigorously through large field studies. More generally, we wonder about the questions raised by the accessibility of Mixed Reality tools in immersive e-learning systems.