[games_access] E For All Flyer Update

Sat Oct 13 19:44:38 EDT 2007

Guys come on... this is not a legal document and it is not a contract 
vehicle that is going to be executed at the end of the day. This is a 
flier, not a scientific paper being proofed for next months Journal 
Nature. Add the word ABOUT or ROUGHLY and move on. It is a great opening 
statement and a simple qualifier will make this fine. We have 18.6% to 
23% so say "about 20%" and move forward.

I know I am new to the group, and I keep quiet, but I have seen less 
discussion on buying a new house.

Mark

Eitan Glinert wrote:
> 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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