[games_access] Please HELP! E For All Flier

Sat Oct 13 12:52:41 EDT 2007

Ok since we have some controversy (on and off list) over including 
the percentages on the flier, lets leave the stats off the flier 
since it something we can't say for sure how we can back up. We have 
talked about this and run stats before but I'm not finding any 
formulae we used so let's not risk it given then time. I know we have 
them but perhaps it's not as important for right now (that and we'd 
probably need a subscript explanation of how the numbers were arrived 
at or something like "based on the UN report from 2006...."). Unless 
someone has even a US estimate with a quick explanation (US census 
says... - or - according to the latest US census...). I'll work on 
that so that if it gets left off the flier we have something to say 
when asked this question (and we will be asked this question). I 
think 10% is closer to the official estimate but that also is 
complicated by those who do not claim to have a disability (I know 
when the census workers came to my apartment -- they do that randomly 
-- I did not add that I had a disability). A lot of people who have 
things like dyslexia may not  say that they have a disability -- I 
based my decision on the fact that I do not apply for disability tags 
for my car, I have no applied for disability benefits, etc, because I 
know that funds are limited and these are things that I don't need 
and would feel selfish asking for. The census isn't specific enough 
when they ask this question and I did talk to the census takers and 
they didn't have an answer as to what I should put down because that 
would be leading me. In 2000 I chose not to include myself in their 
stats -- and I imagine that I'm not alone. Someone with an auditory 
disability that is not total hearing loss may also make the same 
choice. And so forth.

We were definitely given the booth for our work on game accessibility 
for gamers with disabilities so I think you are right -- perhaps the 
"games for all" message is better for the game dev audience than the 
game consumer audience. We have different battles there -- the rude 
comments on messages boards by (I hope) uninformed teens telling the 
disabled to "go away" is one such example.

Anyone have any thoughts about what to put there instead that will 
grab attention? Richard's artwork is so "spot on" and we need some 
opening text to accompany it. And we need it ASAP!

Please help? I need to run thousands of these through the printer as 
soon as possible.

Also -- I have a lot of people like David Perry and others who are 
attending and speaking at E for All who sent me facebook messages in 
reply to my invite who are planning to stop by. I hope that they do. 
So we have some big name devs who might take a few minutes to see 
what we're up to and hopefully help spread the word. David and his 
crew already know Robert from his work on the Top Secret project 
(Robert -- they brought your name up, not me!) and I've met them as 
well. But this is our chance to really get the chance at a quick 
one-on-one to see our display -- they are so busy at GDC, etc but 
this booth allows them to get a quick sense of things.

Also, part two -- we have the media. I'm getting a lot of requests 
for more info and my donation (in addition to the rest of the money 
for E for All) was a press package by the group that is hammering the 
press (they gave us a fine discount as well).

So please, please, please help us with your ideas for this flier as 
soon as you get this message! It's a small thing to ask but something 
that is GREATLY important.

Thanks in advance everyone!
Michelle

>Well, I literally copied that sentence from the FuturePlay poster 
>(http://www.game-accessibility.com/pics/artwork/futureplayposter.pdf)... 
>and I think it was based on the calcs of the SIG (but from some time 
>ago), not my personal calcs...
>
>any alternative sentence without figures?
>
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>----- Original Message ----- From: "Reid Kimball" <reid at rbkdesign.com>
>To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
>Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 11:27 PM
>Subject: Re: [games_access] E For All Flyer Update
>
>>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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