[games_access] Getting Federal government. On our side.

[Barrie Ellis]

Robert, if you kick start it, and get it going - I'll support you and so 
will others. Why not
start by building an on-line petition - I'm sure there's more than just me
here that would be happy to proof read it and add suggestions before it goes 
live.

Take a look here:

http://www.petitiononline.com/
http://www.petitiononline.com/Captions/petition.html

I too don't know how successful this approach will be - but none of us will
know for sure unless it's tried.

At the very least, it can burble away in the background - building support
for us in numbers. Perhaps we could all point people in its direction if it
says things we are mostly happy with? I'd like it to be a bit more
international in scope, so I'd love to see an intro paragraph with links to
translated versions in other languages.

Go for it, Robert!

Barrie
www.OneSwitch.org.uk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Florio" <arthit73 at cablespeed.com>
To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Getting Federal government. On our side.


> I'm actually proposing how many of us want to and can help to send letters
> to important people like senators, independent game developers, to get
> petitions signed, and send it to some senators to get some kind of
> nationwide talk on this and finally a regulated necessity standard?
>
> I think it's a very good and noble thing to do.  Thinking of it in a way
> that it's an industry that has ignored and does not have any future plans
> for any big deals for accessibility for people.  Especially in the United
> States is our Constitution write to have fair access to all forms of
> entertainment.  To not allow people access to their product is
> discrimination.
>
> Again this is something I have proposed before nobody said they wanted to
> work on it and I don't know why it seems like a great thing to do.  Stand
> up
> for our rights that's what the government is there to help us to
> especially
> in a billion-dollar industry making millions and millions but ignoring the
> rest seems wrong.
>
> Robert
>
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