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SIMULATION LITERACY

Accessibility, Performance, and Low-Bandwidth Review

A standard for making complex maps and simulations inspectable without high-end hardware, constant broadband, motion-heavy 3D, color-only encoding, or inaccessible controls.

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LEVEL 1

ORIENTATION

Why this matters

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One-sentence brief

A model cannot be publicly accountable if many users, reviewers, or affected communities cannot access its assumptions and results.

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Three key points

  1. Equivalent text and tables are analytical features, not secondary extras.
  2. Performance degradation must not silently change the model result.
  3. Low-bandwidth, keyboard, screen-reader, reduced-motion, and non-VR paths need parity.
LEVEL 2

WORKING BRIEF

Evidence, context, and limits

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Equivalent analytical views

Provide the same core state, uncertainty, source, and correction information through text, tables, static maps, and accessible charts.

  • No essential information only in hover or color.
  • Logical heading and table structure.
  • Downloadable assumptions and data notes.
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Motion and spatial comfort

Animated maps and immersive globes should support pause, reduced motion, camera control, and a non-immersive alternative.

  • Respect reduced-motion preferences.
  • Avoid forced camera movement.
  • Do not require head or body movement for analysis.
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Input and navigation

All controls should work with keyboard, switch, touch, pointer, and assistive technology where applicable.

  • Visible focus.
  • Large targets.
  • No time-limited interaction without extension.
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Low-bandwidth and offline context

Progressive loading, static summaries, compressed assets, and cached public documentation make the model reviewable under unstable connections.

  • Core explanation before heavy visuals.
  • No infinite polling requirement.
  • Clear stale-data indicators.
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Performance and analytical integrity

Rendering optimizations such as level of detail or aggregation should not alter authoritative values or hide uncertainty.

  • Separate display simplification from model state.
  • Test parity across devices.
  • Report dropped or delayed data.
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Review and correction

Automated accessibility checks are necessary but not sufficient. Assistive-technology and lived-experience review should examine real tasks, errors, recovery, and comprehension.

  • Name pending review.
  • Record barriers and fixes.
  • Do not claim certification from automated PASS.
LEVEL 3

COMPLETE DOSSIER

Limitations, game links, and review context

DISPUTED / MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

Known limitations and gaps

  • This is a non-operational educational transformation: it does not build or implement a game, executable simulator, forecasting service, emergency tool, or decision system.
  • This page is an educational transformation of supplied research leads; it does not authenticate every citation, equation, product claim, or institutional attribution in those files.
  • A scenario, model run, or map is not an observation, forecast, legal finding, public-health instruction, emergency warning, or proof of future behavior.
  • No source code, nuclear-effects formula, casualty calculation, target-selection method, cyber-intrusion procedure, exploit chain, or instruction for bypassing safeguards is published.
  • Geography, nationality, ethnicity, religion, language, migration, disability, health, poverty, or political identity are not inherent danger, compliance, intelligence, competence, or worth variables.
  • Specialist scientific, public-health, accessibility, legal, regional, ethics, security, and lived-experience review remains pending; the page stays open to correction.
LEVEL 4

RESEARCH EDITION

Sources, methods, and stable links

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Linked reports

  • IARPA SimEarth Game Architecture part 2Protected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • IARPA SimEarth Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • IARPA Sim Earth Game DesignProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
  • Planetary Simulation Game ArchitectureProtected research reference; no public report route in this release.
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Method and corrections

This page follows the public method for provenance, confidence, source independence, alternative accounts, limitations, review state, and visible correction.

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