[games_access] E For All Flyer Update

[Eitan Glinert]

Be careful with that statistic, it's a bit tricky (though I've used it 
myself.) According to the 2000 US census, some 18.6% of 16-64 year old US 
citizens have a disability. But that number can be misleading for several 
reasons:
1. The age ranges are bizarre. They go from 0-4, 5-15, 16-64, and 65 and up.
2. Disabilities tend to be very heavily congregated towards the higher age 
range. In the 16-64 group, for instance, the majority of that 18.6% lies in 
the top third of the age range.
3. Disability is nebulously defined. Does missing a leg mean that you can't 
play games (save DDR?) How about a severe, but non-incapacitating illness? 
ADHD?

Moral is: Be careful with that number.
Eitan

At 05:39 PM 10/13/2007, d. michelle hinn wrote:
>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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