[games_access] Happy New Year + A.T.E. Arcade

[Thomas Westin]

Michelle, I hope all goes well with the surgery!
/Thomas

On 2 jan 2009, at 02.10, d. michelle hinn wrote:


> Happy New Year to all!

>

> I have surgery Monday but I'm looking forward to spending some  

> recovery time checking out the new projects -- an accessible SL  

> sounds like a reason to download SL again! :)

>

> PS -- In mid-January online SIG meetings will start up again. Let's  

> make 2009 the year we really hit the scene with Accessibility and  

> see some big changes!

>

> Hope everyone is well!

> Michelle

>

>> Ditto Happy New Year everyone on the list. Hope you all have a  

>> great one.

>>

>> Text Second Life sounds like a really ambitious project, Eelke.  

>> Great stuff. It would be great to hear some feedback from users at  

>> some point.

>>

>> People may be interested in a little on the past of accessible  

>> gaming here:

>>

>> http://switchgaming.blogspot.com/2009/01/ate-arcade-rca-studio- 

>> ii.html

>>

>> I'm hoping to guide people step by step into using emulation to  

>> make previously inaccessible games more accessible. Early days (I'm  

>> at 1977 at the minute)!

>>

>> All the best...

>>

>> Barrie

>> www.OneSwitch.org.uk

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eelke Folmer" <eelke.folmer at gmail.com 

>> >

>> To: <games_access at igda.org>

>> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 12:59 AM

>> Subject: [games_access] Happy new year + TextSL Beta

>>

>>> Hi,

>>>

>>> I wish everybody a happy new year.

>>>

>>> We recently released a Beta version of TextSL which is a text client

>>> for Second Life which can be accessed with the Jaws screen reader  

>>> and

>>> which can be downloaded on:

>>> http://www.textsl.org

>>>

>>> Cheers Eelke

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>> --

>>> Eelke Folmer

>>> Assistant Professor

>>> Department of Computer Science and Engineering

>>> University of Nevada, Reno

>>> http://www.eelke.com

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