[games_access] Announcement

Thu Jul 12 06:55:16 EDT 2007

Yeah, it's almost there -- I'm waiting too. But I think this is all 
very exciting! Then perhaps we can think of using our wiki as more of 
a wikipedia type where we define terms, etc.

>Fair enough - I'll sit tight.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: <mailto:hinn at uiuc.edu>d. michelle hinn
>To: <mailto:games_access at igda.org>IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 11:44 AM
>Subject: Re: [games_access] Announcement
>
>Yes, I like the IGDA URL too because it lends the institutional 
>support. It's hard to see what the IGDA is doing day-to-day but I 
>can assure you...there's a lot more behind the scenes than you might 
>think.
>
>So I'm thinking that GA.com will become our "resources" links for 
>forums and papers. There are no plans to move it from it's current 
>URL. The rest of our site will use the IGDA web 2.0 tools. Not sure 
>what the date to expect the new stuff for our site but it's soon. So 
>the wiki is a temp redirect given that our way out of date blog 
>isn't exactly confidence inspiring that we're an active group.
>
>I think that the migration to the new stuff will be very soon. I 
>agree -- a clear and clean opening page is needed. Perhaps we can 
>use the look and feel of GA.com on our opening page to make things 
>sync a bit better.
>
>And...yes, we will have to make some SIG and Chapter info "closed" 
>to IGDA members but our SIG is being treated as a special case given 
>that a lot of our audience are GAMERS with disabilities and not all 
>game devs. Basically the IGDA wants to add value to membership dues 
>by closing some things off to non-members. Yes, first reaction is 
>"WHAAAAATTTTT??" but now that I know more (can't debrief totally 
>yet), I can't see it having much inpact on us and our collective 
>desire to keep things, uh, accessible. Jason has told me that the 
>IGDA agrees that we're the social justice crowd and that once of our 
>main objectives is to reach out to gamers with disabilities. Other 
>board members have said the same or similar.
>
>Michelle
>
>>Good luck with your PhD, Richard. Some of my thoughts....
>>
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>I'd like to see 
><http://www.igda.org/accessibility>www.igda.org/accessibility stay 
>as our web-address. It's nice and clear, and easy to remember. 
><http://www.GASIG.org>www.GASIG.org is a bit of a splurge in my mind.
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>I hope 
><http://www.game-accessibility.com>www.game-accessibility.com will never 
>move addresses. Personally I've made a lot of direct links to 
>specific forum threads that I think are very useful not to loose 
>track of. We need to strengthen the threads we've made already as 
>well as fill in the gaps.
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>I'd like the see the 
><http://www.igda.org/accessibility>www.igda.org/accessibility front 
>use clear English and really importantly, not be cluttered. This 
>should definitely be open to all and not be a subscribers only 
>thing. The news blog should be open to all too. We should continue 
>to use the Game-Accessibility.com forum as this is becoming more and 
>more established and will be open to all.
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>Content should be broken down into Public Info - Members Info so the 
>free stuff is easy to get to (if we have to go down a closed route).
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>Any idea how long this is likely to take? WIKI's are okay-ish - but 
>I don't think they are particularly quick and easy to navigate - 
>they tend to be so cluttered to my mind.
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>
>Barrie
>
><http://www.OneSwitch.org.uk>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
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>----- Original Message -----
>
>From: <mailto:richard at audiogames.net>AudioGames.net
>
>To: <mailto:games_access at igda.org>IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>
>Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2007 8:08 AM
>
>Subject: [games_access] Announcement
>
>
>Hi folks,
>
>
>
>I have an announcement. As you may know I temporarily quit work at 
>the Accessibility foundation to finish my PhD by working at the 
>Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU - my other job for the past 3 or 4 
>years). Here I have been offered a research job, which I decided to 
>accept. This means that I have now officially quit my job at the 
>Accessibility foundation. This doesn't mean that I'm going game 
>audio all the way, however, since game accessibility remains one of 
>my big interest areas. Although for the next couple of months my 
>main focus is on game audio design, after I finish my thesis I have 
>the chance to setup projects related to audio and game 
>accessibility, but now at the HKU and still in collaboration with 
>Accessibility. I might even have more room for setting up projects 
>where I work now then before.
>
>
>
>One thing to think about, as I already discussed with Michelle, is 
><http://www.game-accessibility.com>www.game-accessibility.com. 
>Accessibility wants to change how the website is run, partially 
>because the foundation has too little manpower, partially because we 
>want to make the website available for more people. The foundation 
>proposes to set up a Projectgroup Game-Accessibility.com in which 
>the website is made available to the GA-SIG to basically do to it 
>what needs to be done, and make it (to an extend) GA-SIG Resource 
>Website*. This is just a first plan, if someone has their own ideas, 
>please speak up.
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>
>Greets,
>
>
>
>Richard
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>* As I've understood we're in a tricky spot at the moment with all 
>them websites. I personally would like to simply have a website 
><http://www.gasig.org>http://www.gasig.org and put all SIG related 
>stuff on it (which includes IGDA SIG and DIGRA SIG stuff). This 
>could BE the IGDA website as far as I'm concerned, just with an 
>extra URL. And then use GA.com for resources (papers, articles) and 
>community (forum, mailinglist) only.
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