Desenvolvimento nativo vs React Native: um estudo de portabilidade do jogo híbrido Coup Acessível

Abstract

There are approximately 528,000 blind people in Brazil and about 6 million people with permanent visual impairment. The Internet and information systems are, in general, permeated by resources with strong visual appeal. Digital accessibility on the web is an attempt to include visually impaired people that is defined as a series of features that make anyone capable of browsing, understanding and interacting on the web (regardless of their difficulties) without anyone’s help. As a result of this effort to provide digital accessibility, initiatives for making accessible digital games have emerged. These initiatives include creating games that target this audience as a way of inserting them into the fascinating universe of games. Games, today play roles that go beyond promoting playfulness, with impacts on education, social relationships and physical rehabilitation. Accessible game development currently requires features (e.g., screen reader integration, TTS) that makes developers opt for native development, which ends up restricting the access to the application. This paper aims to compare the "Coup Accessible"hybrid game developed on Android Native with a new version made in React Native, thus showing the possibility of developing accessible games on Cross-Platform tools, without significant loss of performance or excessive increase in development efforts. Therefore, some activities were performed and monitored in both versions of the application. Although the React Native application has shown lower performance compared to the native version, its development is uncomplicated and can be seen as a good cross-platform development alternative for accessible applications.