[games_access] E For All Flyer Update

[d. michelle hinn]

According to the latest US census (I called a friend who has a friend 
that works for the census AND it's on their website), 49 million 
people have a disability in the United States. That's 19.4%. So I 
think we can safely say "nearly 20% of the United States population 
has a disability, according to the latest census data" (better 
wording can probably be found but that's a stab at it). This is from 
the official US census government website. So we should go with just 
the US in the flier because we can say that with more certainty plus 
the expo is in the US and probably covered more by US media...at 
least for this first year of its existence.

Richard -- I hope you have a little bit of extra time to tweak the 
flier. You have been VERY generous with your time and creativity to 
help with this!

Michelle

>Yes, you are right -- it definitely changes things, which I meant to 
>add and didn't so thanks for raising this issue. I just wasn't sure 
>what was meant by "a country" and would prefer if we could say "the 
>world" but I don't know the percentages and certainly we need to 
>adjust the numbers depending on the wording. I'm not sure we should 
>say the 10-20% until we get more confident in our numbers per 
>country. We are still kind of making a guess when it comes to just 
>the United States.
>
>With that in mind...what should we have as our opening statement on 
>our flier? We don't have a long time to decide -- I need to get it 
>to the printer as soon as possible so we need to make sure we say 
>only what we are comfortable saying. So we need some brainstorming 
>help ASAP!!!
>
>Michelle
>
>>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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