[games_access] AbleGamers Text to Speech Podcast; and Plee for Help.

d. michelle hinn hinn at uiuc.edu
Sun Jan 18 20:05:42 EST 2009


This is great, Mark! What a nice alternative to have with the podcasts!

I want to lend my support to Mark's plea/request -- Mark's site 
definitely gets to the community of gamers with disabilities. If you 
have a new mod to test out or some cool accessibility news, why not 
write up something short for the site to attract beta testers? 
Getting the word out to as many as possible is our goal -- why not 
get the word out on as many sites as we can, especially on a site 
that attracts so many hits (I had no idea! That's impressive!)? Our 
list is filled with developers and researchers who could really 
benefit from getting their news out to their audience and I think 
AbleGamers is a super effective way to do that. We can't afford to 
keep silent -- spread the word about accessibility! That's our point!

Very cool that there's a feed of oneswitch on there too. Nice to see 
the sharing! :)

Michelle

>Wanted to forward this to the Group. Along with my bi-annual plee.
>
><quote>
>Are you the type of person that says, "I like the whole AbleGamers 
>thing, but this whole reading thing is just more than I am willing 
>to invest" or maybe you are the person saying, "I spend 20 hours a 
>day on AbleGamers but how do I cram it into my brain while I am 
>sleeping or on the bus?" Well the folks here at AbleGamers, and the 
>people over at Odiogo have taken the whole web thing out of the 
>AbleGamers.com web site.
>
>NOTE: Odiogo does place an ad at the front of our story. Sorry, we 
>just cannot afford the version that is ad free.
>
>Odiogo does the reading for you; it converts our site into speech 
>and reads it to you. This is great for our blind users as well as 
>those on the go. You can subscribe to our content via iTunes, or 
>Zune.
>
></quote>
>
><http://ablegamers.com/general-news/406-ablegamers-in-your-ear.html>http://ablegamers.com/general-news/406-ablegamers-in-your-ear.html
>
>
>I do also want to make my twice yearly plee. AbleGamers is open for 
>ALL the people here. I think that there are a total of 5 people that 
>are on this list who have taken the time to become members (free) of 
>AbleGamers. Given that we are one of just a handful of ACTIVE sites 
>on the subject, I would really hope for more support from this group.
>
>That said, AbleGamers is open for all of you to get things out to 
>the community and web as a whole. Do you have a project you are 
>working on, send me email and lets get a story up on it. Have your 
>own story? Send it over and we will get it up.
>
>Here are the stats for AbleGamers last Year...
>
>AbleGamers Served more than 4.6 Million hits last year.
>
>We are always looking for good content, we are always very fair at 
>linking to any where you want. We have a RSS feed of OneSwitch on 
>the bottom of every page... so, in short, I COULD USE SOME HELP OVER 
>HERE!!!
>
>Happy New Year... MARK BARLET
>
>
>
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