[games_access] E For All Flyer Update

[d. michelle hinn]

Yeah, it's definitely not without it's problems as you point out. As 
I said the other day, I have dyslexia but I didn't say "yes" to the 
disability question when I filled it out myself. But it's a stat that 
we can cite and that's the key thing now.

The trouble is the timing - we need to say SOMETHING that finishes 
this flier and I needed to get it to the printer yesterday and I'm 
hoping Richard still has some time to edit it. But we aren't getting 
a lot (any?) feedback on what to substitute it with. So the question 
is -- do we cite that stat knowing it's problematic or do we skip it 
and go with some other opening statement...if so? What?

Michelle

>Be careful with that statistic, it's a bit tricky (though I've used 
>it myself.) According to the 2000 US census, some 18.6% of 16-64 
>year old US citizens have a disability. But that number can be 
>misleading for several reasons:
>1. The age ranges are bizarre. They go from 0-4, 5-15, 16-64, and 65 and up.
>2. Disabilities tend to be very heavily congregated towards the 
>higher age range. In the 16-64 group, for instance, the majority of 
>that 18.6% lies in the top third of the age range.
>3. Disability is nebulously defined. Does missing a leg mean that 
>you can't play games (save DDR?) How about a severe, but 
>non-incapacitating illness? ADHD?
>
>Moral is: Be careful with that number.
>Eitan
>
>At 05:39 PM 10/13/2007, d. michelle hinn wrote:
>>According to the latest US census (I called a friend who has a 
>>friend that works for the census AND it's on their website), 49 
>>million people have a disability in the United States. That's 
>>19.4%. So I think we can safely say "nearly 20% of the United 
>>States population has a disability, according to the latest census 
>>data" (better wording can probably be found but that's a stab at 
>>it). This is from the official US census government website. So we 
>>should go with just the US in the flier because we can say that 
>>with more certainty plus the expo is in the US and probably covered 
>>more by US media...at least for this first year of its existence.
>>
>>Richard -- I hope you have a little bit of extra time to tweak the 
>>flier. You have been VERY generous with your time and creativity to 
>>help with this!
>>
>>Michelle
>>
>>>Yes, you are right -- it definitely changes things, which I meant 
>>>to add and didn't so thanks for raising this issue. I just wasn't 
>>>sure what was meant by "a country" and would prefer if we could 
>>>say "the world" but I don't know the percentages and certainly we 
>>>need to adjust the numbers depending on the wording. I'm not sure 
>>>we should say the 10-20% until we get more confident in our 
>>>numbers per country. We are still kind of making a guess when it 
>>>comes to just the United States.
>>>
>>>With that in mind...what should we have as our opening statement 
>>>on our flier? We don't have a long time to decide -- I need to get 
>>>it to the printer as soon as possible so we need to make sure we 
>>>say only what we are comfortable saying. So we need some 
>>>brainstorming help ASAP!!!
>>>
>>>Michelle
>>>
>>>>Maybe I completely suck at math but doesn't changing "country" to
>>>>world COMPLETELY change the facts? If we can't do that no one is going
>>>>to give us any respect.
>>>>
>>>>I don't even know if 10 - 20% of a given country is the truth, I'm
>>>>sure Richard did the research.
>>>>
>>>>On 10/12/07, hinn at uiuc.edu <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>>>>>  I can't open these at all:
>>>>>
>>>>>  http://kmt.hku.nl/~richard/e4all/e4allflyer4onpage.jpg
>>>>>  http://kmt.hku.nl/~richard/e4all/e4allflyermaster0001.jpg
>>>>>
>>>>>  How big are they? Can you try to send as attachments if the 
>>>>>total is under 50 mg?
>>>>>
>>>>>  One thing to change:
>>>>  > http://kmt.hku.nl/~richard/e4all/e4allflyer0009.jpg
>>>>  >
>>>>>  "in a country" -- maybe "between 10 and 20% (on average) of the 
>>>>>world population..." instead? That or "in each country." but i 
>>>>>prefer the world wording
>>>>>
>>>>>  ---- Original message ----
>>>>>  >Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:49:36 +0200
>>>>>  >From: "AudioGames.net" <richard at audiogames.net>
>>>>>  >Subject: [games_access] E For All Flyer Update
>>>>>  >To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >Hee,
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >Due to calculation error of my part, I had to rescale the flyer a little
>>>>>  >bit. See latest versions here:
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >http://kmt.hku.nl/~richard/e4all/e4allflyer0009.jpg
>>>>>  >http://kmt.hku.nl/~richard/e4all/e4allflyermaster0001.jpg (2 on page)
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >Michelle: 4 on page I can do, but text will become small...
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >Greets,
>>>>>  >
>>>>>  >Richard
>>>>>  >
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