[games_access] Gentle Petition

[Thomas Westin]

a couple of years ago I tried to talk to the Swedish government with  
a similar approach and get their attention by writing a letter to the  
minister of culture, but only got a polite reply that they didn't  
have time for a meeting to discuss with me

perhaps things have changed now (new administration) so I can give it  
a try again

/Thomas

5 dec 2007 kl. 00.49 skrev d. michelle hinn:

> I agree -- We haven't gone down the road of the politics at all yet  
> and I think if we approach it the right way that it would be well  
> received and maybe even result in awareness amongst gamers,  
> developers, and people who would be gamers but don't know that they  
> could be. So a more gentle petition to say "hey, we agree that  
> games are important and here's why adding accessibility is a good  
> idea..."
>
> There's no reason we can't send an informative brief to let  
> legislators know about game accessibility even in the US -- when  
> done, this is a GOOD thing about games. We send the good things  
> about game accessibility and games to start things out versus  
> something that is anti-industry, which we don't want to do at this  
> point.
>
> And, hey, maybe in 50 years there won't be a need for legislation  
> because there will be some incredible breakthrough that none of us  
> can even imagine yet! :)
>
> Michelle
>
>> Robert (and others) - regarding the petition why don't you consider a
>> compromise? I know in the UK you can quite easily go down the  
>> political path
>> to get things to the government:
>>
>> http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/SupportAT/
>>
>> What about starting a very simple petition - "We the undersigned  
>> want to see
>> more accessibility features in games...." - with a bit of an  
>> explanation
>> (But not too much) - and some translations into other languages.
>>
>> It would be nice to have something to take to developers, indies,
>> home-coders to say lots do want this - it's not just us few people
>> contacting you! And a few years down the line if we're still  
>> getting no
>> where - but have everything in place that we can do - then maybe the
>> political path is the way to go.
>>
>> Let's face it - in 50 years - accessibility in software will very  
>> likely be
>> legislated for (and let's hope it will be so much easier to bring  
>> into
>> being) - so Robert's not so far off the mark. It's just so....  
>> slow....
>>
>> What do you think re. the gentle petition?
>>
>> Barrie
>>
>>
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