[games_access] Reminder - Tonight, Videogames for All on PBS's Quest

[Jason Price]

Great job Reid and Michelle!

Jason

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On Behalf Of Reid Kimball
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 11:23 PM
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
Subject: Re: [games_access] Reminder - Tonight,Videogames for All on PBS's
Quest

PBS already knows about the mix up in "Sony XBox 360" and such.

http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2007/05/01/video-games-access-for-all/#commen
t-1605

-Reid

On 5/1/07, d. michelle hinn <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> I must admit that it was a little annoying that they had three hours
> of interview footage with me the day of and right before the Idol
> session that never appeared. It's fine that they left me on the
> cutting room floor but I really do feel like our Idol session was
> rather sabotaged when we could have better been spending that time
> making sure we have more butts in the seats (I was supposed to run
> over to Eric Z's competition and make an announcement) and
> re-organizing the session because Robert had to go home. I
> know...we've talked about this before. No reason to rehash the
> coulda/woulda/shoulda but as I think we all agree on...their presense
> was a major disruption many times and they went back on their word to
> leave us along three hours before Idol.
>
> And what happened to the 12 hours of footage of all of us eating? ;)
> That was some class act stuff! Hehehe.
>
> Besides that...the Sony/Microsoft mix up was very poor form. They
> fact checked so much else but that was an easy one.
>
> Are there any other issues on the story the people have something to
> add? I'd like to suggest that they run a follow up in a letter I'm
> planning on sending them thanking them for giving light to the issue
> but also pointing out the errors like Sony/Microsoft that they may
> wish to edit.
>
> Thanks,
> Michelle
>
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >Quick reminder to check your local listings for a program called Quest
> >at 7:30pm tonight. Tonight's episode entitled, Videogames for All will
> >chronicle the efforts of this very IGDA Game Accessibility SIG to
> >spread the word about accessibility issues for games. If the episode
> >is not broadcast in your area, fear not, it should posted on Quest's
> >website, http://www.kqed.com/quest/ soon.
> >
> >-Reid
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