{"id":1030,"date":"2023-05-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:33:02","slug":"accessible-play-study-of-accessible-options-in-video-games-wins-the-student-edi-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/2023\/accessible-play-study-of-accessible-options-in-video-games-wins-the-student-edi-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Accessible Play &#8211; Study of Accessible Options in Video Games Wins The Student EDI Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Accessible Play &#8211; Study of Accessible Options in Video Games Wins The Student EDI Awards\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p><strong class=\"myprefix-text-bold\">May 17th, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"1032\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"News 20230517 - Accessible Play - Study of Accessible Options in Video Games Wins The Student EDI Awards-01\" class=\"wp-image-1032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS201-2.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"753\" height=\"753\" data-id=\"1031\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2.jpg\" alt=\"News 20230517 - Accessible Play - Study of Accessible Options in Video Games Wins The Student EDI Awards-02\" class=\"wp-image-1031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2.jpg 753w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2-512x512.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2-320x320.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/74\/2025\/04\/NEWS202-2-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pallavi Sodhi, a first-year master&#8217;s student in the Human-Computer Interaction program won the student EDI research award. Through her research, Sodhi will be exploring accessibility in video games; understanding what accessibility features are available, how they are designed, and what their benefits and limitations are from the perspective of those who create and play them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/provost\/2023\/05\/carleton-awards-students-funding-for-edi-related-research\/\">Student EDI -Related Awards<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 17th, 2023 Pallavi Sodhi, a first-year master&#8217;s student in the Human-Computer Interaction program won the student EDI research award. Through her research, Sodhi will be exploring accessibility in video games; understanding what accessibility features are available, how they are designed, and what their benefits and limitations are from the perspective of those who create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":1032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1218,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions\/1218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/csit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}