[games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew

Sun Jul 27 06:40:33 EDT 2008

Hi,

Just emailed my boss concerning GA.com. Final effort, otherwise just leave 
GA.com be and focus on GASIG.com.

And about GASIG.com - FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!! (if you remember my beggings for 
having a SIG-URL... ?) I say it's maybe best to focus on GASIG.com anyway, 
and "re-use" (with proper source-mentions of course - ehum) GA.com material, 
similar to the Hebrew website? Either on IGDA SIG or (preferably - but yeah, 
I understand the politics) on a site of our own (with proper mentions of 
IGDA of course ;).

About the proposals - I was browsing http://www.igda.org/wiki/GASIG_Projects 
but I can't find an overview of all the propals so far? Is there one 
anywhere?

Greets,

Ries

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "d. michelle hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu>
To: "IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List" <games_access at igda.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew

> Yes, I doubt that the magazine meant anything bad by it -- it's also 
> freely available from their website (can't quite tell if they are a gaming 
> magazine or a general news magazine or what). Mainly I just want to be 
> sure that if it is a mirror image that proper credit is given that feels 
> fair to Richard.
>
> Richard is the one to answer the GA.com questions -- originally there was 
> talk of having it under the SIGs control so that we had a decent website 
> and could carry the project on.
>
> On the GASIG site news...I'm beta testing the new IGDA stuff -- can you 
> believe it? FINALLY this new system will be up and running. Thanks to 
> Mark's generosity we own GASIG.com so we can have that redirected to the 
> IGDA SIG site -- whatever we decide to do. Personally I think it would be 
> great if we had the SIG site be a little GA.com, a little IGDA, and a lot 
> of us! We're mainly after the developers. Sites like yours (Barrie) and 
> Mark's (not to exclude anyone like D Gamer or any other sites -- just 
> making a quick point here) is that they reach the consumers, which is the 
> side that we also need to court since these are the potential gamers that 
> we are trying to get the game companies to include! So I'm glad that there 
> are a few excellent consumer aimed community sites out there as SIG 
> partners!!
>
> Anyone interested in helping me move content over and beta test the new 
> IGDA web tech? It can do a LOT and a lot of stuff we may or may not need. 
> One thing I'm not happy about is that there is talk of having everyone on 
> this list resubscribe to the new list on the new system (don't worry --  
> it's not yet operational). A lot of other SIG chairs have raised some h*** 
> about it so hopefully they will not make this a big pain in our behinds. 
> And because we WANT everyone to access our work, were one of the few SIGs 
> that will have no barriers to access (as long as people sign up for the 
> free access then they can access everything we have). Other SIGs operate 
> in other ways and thus want to have people pay access fees for their 
> reports and such. We're not there yet!! We want to give this info away!! 
> But we also want corporate sponsors to help keep it free -- I'm working on 
> it! :)
>
> In other related news, the GA SIG and other diversity SIGs are going to be 
> working on a slick brochure to give out at GDC and the like -- 
> perhaps even paying to put them in the registration bags and such! There 
> are about 4 Diversity SIGs and if we pool our resources, we can all 
> benefit!
>
> Right now? I'm finishing the GDC proposals -- this year's deadline came up 
> SUPER early but thank goodness we have 5 year's worth of proposals to 
> reword, etc. :)
>
> Michelle
>
>>Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I guess? That's for you to 
>>decide Richard!
>>
>>In their defence - at the very top of each article - there is a link 
>>directly to Game-Accessibility.com equivalent - so they have given credit. 
>>Maybe they found it hard to find someone to ask at GA.com? Is this e-mail 
>>still active: gaccessibility [ A . T ] gmail.com?
>>
>>It just reminds me that the Game-Accessibility.com project was/is a very 
>>fine one, with some excellent articles - and it's such a shame to see it 
>>sitting stagnating...
>>
>>Is there any chance of control being passed over to the IGDA GASIG group, 
>>Richard? I'd really like to be given admin privledges over all the forum 
>>topics so I can kill off some of the spamming that's spoiling it.
>>
>>With things being so up in the air over the GASIG site - it would be nice 
>>to carry things on at GA.com. I just worry about how long term the site 
>>will sit there. When the hosting package runs out - what happens then? 
>>Will it just vanish? That concern makes me not what to plough too much 
>>effort into it right now.
>>
>>Barrie
>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: AudioGames.net
>>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 12:54 AM
>>Subject: Re: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew
>>
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Err... maybe there is already an English translation of these pages out 
>>there... "somewhere"... :
>>
>>
>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=10090 = 
>>http://www.game-accessibility.com/index.php?pagefile=visual ?
>>
>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=12009 = 
>>http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=soundalternative + 
>>http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=auditory ?
>>
>>http://aisrael.org/Index.asp?CategoryID=813&ArticleID=11153 = 
>>http://www.accessibility.nl/games/index.php?pagefile=motoric ?
>>
>>
>>?
>>
>>Greets,
>>
>>Richard
>>
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: Barrie Ellis
>>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List
>>Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2008 1:22 AM
>>Subject: [games_access] Game Accessibility articles in Hebrew
>>
>>
>>http://gameaccessibility.blogspot.com/2008/07/in-israel.html
>>
>>Three very good looking game accessibility articles - I can't read them - 
>>but it's fantastic to know that this stuff is getting a wider audience.
>>
>>Any Arabic articles out there?
>>
>>Barrie
>>www.OneSwitch.org.uk
>>
>>
>>
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