[games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew

Sun Jul 27 11:01:16 EDT 2008

I'll see what I can dig up ;) Will mail you...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew

> As for the proposals I'm just piecing together stuff in word. Some of 
> the workings this year have to be done with the CMP people direction 
> (ie, the arcade). If there's anything you want to resubmit (like the 
> audio talk) let me know and I'll email you and we can clean it up for 
> resubmission. I was told after last year to focus on a few BIG 
> sessions versus 100 sessions. I haven't had a lot of people email me 
> to say that they are interested in being at GDC but I'm jamming in 
> everyone that has emailed me.
> 
> If anyone has any fresh ideas, now's the time to throw them out 
> there. We'll have another arcade and I'm working on a "tech talk" 
> panel, trying for at least a half day workshop, and such. The IGDA is 
> kicking around the idea of having a shared booth in the expo room for 
> SIGs to show off their stuff so if they do that then we can have 
> something showing throughout the show that will be seen by the expo 
> only people.
> 
> Basically with the Lyme's disease I haven't had a whole lot of time 
> to post proposals up on the wiki! I'm just moving as fast as I can 
> and it's easier just to edit my word file since we're running out of 
> time. Basically look at last year's stuff and if you have ideas to 
> improve any of them, let me know! I know that I didn't want it to 
> come to this again but I didn't predict getting sick for a few weeks 
> and not being able to move so I'm burning the candle at both ends to 
> get the proposals in. There's only a few days left and no time for 
> leisure. So basically this year is another "see last year and the 
> year before that" GDC proposal fair again. Oh well -- at least I know 
> the system well!! :)
> 
> Oh -- GASIG.com will be a merger of the IGDA SIG site only with more 
> flexibility since we can do more stuff off of the IGDA site (and 
> we're now an ECA SIG as well so we've got lots of connections). So 
> that will be a big up coming project. Right now I'm just hyperfocused 
> on GDC and time is not on my side. There hasn't been a lot of "new 
> ideas" either from people so unless people have some secret proposals 
> they are putting in on their own, the ones I'm putting in are the 
> only ones I know about and I'm writing them all. It's just dumb luck 
> that the deadline is months earlier and that I got this crappy 
> disease during the planning month. I really didn't expect to deal 
> with GDC until September!
> 
> So it hasn't been the best collaborative effort we've had but GDC has 
> always been a bit of a torn in our paws!
> 
> Michelle
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>Just emailed my boss concerning GA.com. Final effort, otherwise just 
>>leave GA.com be and focus on GASIG.com.
>>
>>And about GASIG.com - FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (if you remember my 
>>beggings for having a SIG-URL... ?) I say it's maybe best to focus 
>>on GASIG.com anyway, and "re-use" (with proper source-mentions of 
>>course - ehum) GA.com material, similar to the Hebrew website? 
>>Either on IGDA SIG or (preferably - but yeah, I understand the 
>>politics) on a site of our own (with proper mentions of IGDA of 
>>course ;).
>>
>>About the proposals - I was browsing 
>>http://www.igda.org/wiki/GASIG_Projects but I can't find an overview 
>>of all the propals so far? Is there one anywhere?
>>
>>Greets,
>>
>>Ries
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>>----- Original Message ----- From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
>>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:58 AM
>>Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew
>>
>>>Yes, I doubt that the magazine meant anything bad by it -- it's 
>>>also freely available from their website (can't quite tell if they 
>>>are a gaming magazine or a general news magazine or what). Mainly I 
>>>just want to be sure that if it is a mirror image that proper 
>>>credit is given that feels fair to Richard.
>>>
>>>Richard is the one to answer the GA.com questions -- originally 
>>>there was talk of having it under the SIGs control so that we had a 
>>>decent website and could carry the project on.
>>>
>>>On the GASIG site news...I'm beta testing the new IGDA stuff -- can 
>>>you believe it? FINALLY this new system will be up and running. 
>>>Thanks to Mark's generosity we own GASIG.com so we can have that 
>>>redirected to the IGDA SIG site -- whatever we decide to do. 
>>>Personally I think it would be great if we had the SIG site be a 
>>>little GA.com, a little IGDA, and a lot of us! We're mainly after 
>>>the developers. Sites like yours (Barrie) and Mark's (not to 
>>>exclude anyone like D Gamer or any other sites -- just making a 
>>>quick point here) is that they reach the consumers, which is the 
>>>side that we also need to court since these are the potential 
>>>gamers that we are trying to get the game companies to include! So 
>>>I'm glad that there are a few excellent consumer aimed community 
>>>sites out there as SIG partners!!
>>>
>>>Anyone interested in helping me move content over and beta test the 
>>>new IGDA web tech? It can do a LOT and a lot of stuff we may or may 
>>>not need. One thing I'm not happy about is that there is talk of 
>>>having everyone on this list resubscribe to the new list on the new 
>>>system (don't worry --  it's not yet operational). A lot of other 
>>>SIG chairs have raised some h*** about it so hopefully they will 
>>>not make this a big pain in our behinds. And because we WANT 
>>>everyone to access our work, were one of the few SIGs that will 
>>>have no barriers to access (as long as people sign up for the free 
>>>access then they can access everything we have). Other SIGs operate 
>>>in other ways and thus want to have people pay access fees for 
>>>their reports and such. We're not there yet!! We want to give this 
>>>info away!! But we also want corporate sponsors to help keep it 
>>>free -- I'm working on it! :)
>>>
>>>In other related news, the GA SIG and other diversity SIGs are 
>>>going to be working on a slick brochure to give out at GDC and the 
>>>like -- perhaps even paying to put them in the registration bags 
>>>and such! There are about 4 Diversity SIGs and if we pool our 
>>>resources, we can all benefit!
>>>
>>>Right now? I'm finishing the GDC proposals -- this year's deadline 
>>>came up SUPER early but thank goodness we have 5 year's worth of 
>>>proposals to reword, etc. :)
>>>
>>>Michelle
>>>
>>>>Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess? That's for 
>>>>you to decide Richard!
>>>>
>>>>In their defence - at the very top of each article - there is a 
>>>>link directly to Game-Accessibility.com equivalent - so they have 
>>>>given credit. Maybe they found it hard to find someone to ask at 
>>>>GA.com? Is this e-mail still active: gaccessibility [ A . T ] 
>>>>gmail.com?
>>>>
>>>>It just reminds me that the Game-Accessibility.com project was/is 
>>>>a very fine one, with some excellent articles - and it's such a 
>>>>shame to see it sitting stagnating...
>>>>
>>>>Is there any chance of control being passed over to the IGDA GASIG 
>>>>group, Richard? I'd really like to be given admin privledges over 
>>>>all the forum topics so I can kill off some of the spamming that's 
>>>>spoiling it.
>>>>
>>>>With things being so up in the air over the GASIG site - it would 
>>>>be nice to carry things on at GA.com. I just worry about how long 
>>>>term the site will sit there. When the hosting package runs out - 
>>>>what happens then? Will it just vanish? That concern makes me not 
>>>>what to plough too much effort into it right now.
>>>>
>>>>Barrie
>>>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: AudioGames.net
>>>>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>>>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:54 AM
>>>>Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>Err... maybe there is already an English translation of these 
>>>>pages out there... "somewhere"... :
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=10090 = 
>>>>http://www.game-accessibility.com/index.php?pagefile=visual ?
>>>>
>>>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=12009 = 
>>>>http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=soundalternative 
>>>>+ http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=auditory ?
>>>>
>>>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=11153 = 
>>>>http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=motoric ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>?
>>>>
>>>>Greets,
>>>>
>>>>Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>----- Original Message ----- From: Barrie Ellis
>>>>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>>>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:22 AM
>>>>Subject: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://gameaccessibility.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-israel.html
>>>>
>>>>Three very good looking game accessibility articles - I can't read 
>>>>them - but it's fantastic to know that this stuff is getting a 
>>>>wider audience.
>>>>
>>>>Any Arabic articles out there?
>>>>
>>>>Barrie
>>>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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