[games_access] Game Accessibility - Why Bother?

[hinn at uiuc.edu]

Agreed!

I'm going to mess about with the wiki for the SIG and see if I can't come up with some "work spaces" for everyone to add links to groups, etc so that we have a big list of places to send all PR links to because I think we're at that time where we need to do that! I just bought a Press Release book for the Associated Press so we can craft documents that could be automatically used in the news wires. It's not super difficult -- I'll try to get a template up on the wiki in the next day or so and then everyone can put news that they want to share into that and then I/we can look each press release over for formatting issues and then send it on. The nice thing is that at the end of each document, you have a blurb about each key person/organization involved with contact info (in this case, it would Dimitris, his lab, the IGDA, GA.com, and Gamasutra) so that the press can easily contact whoever they want.

But in the meantime...spread the news about this story! No need to wait for the template! :)

Michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:06:23 +0100
>From: "Barrie Ellis" <barrie.ellis at oneswitch.org.uk>  
>Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility - Why Bother?  
>To: <gramenos at ics.forth.gr>, "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>
>Couldn't have put it better myself. Superbly well written piece. Now - let's 
>keep spreading the word. Perhaps this group can start sending out links to 
>this to your favourite contacts, game organisations, companies and 
>independents.
>
>http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13650
>
>Big pat on the back to you Dimitris!
>
>Barrie
>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dimitris Grammenos" <gramenos at ics.forth.gr>
>To: "'IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List'" <games_access at igda.org>
>Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 4:22 PM
>Subject: [games_access] Game Accessibility - Why Bother?
>
>
>> Hello all, my article on Game Accessibility is now on-line in the Industry
>> News section of Gamasutra.
>>
>> Game Accessibility - Why Bother?
>> http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13650
>>
>>
>> Dimitris
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