[games_access] Accessibility symposium

[Siobhan Thomas]

Dear all,

First of all, thanks for all your help previously with my question regarding accessibility resources. Life got rather insane promptly after that so I haven't had a chance to thank anyone properly.

I got a couple of suggestions for setting up an event of some sort on accessibility. I am thinking of doing this next semester (february or march), at london south bank university where I run a game design/ dev program called Game Cultures.

I'd like to have dedicated talks on specific areas of accessibility/ need of accessibility groups.

I would like to see if anyone is interested in participating and if anyone from outside of the uk will be visiting london at a specific time.

Just send me an email letting me know and I will put something together.

Kindest regards,
Siobhan
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-----Original Message-----
From: <thomas at pininteractive.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:02:36 
To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List<games_access at igda.org>
Subject: Re: [games_access] GDC + IGDA Tech Migration

yes I got a funeral notice

it's odd; in a time when the industry really would neednew markets it  
ignores diversity; I see the same trend in Sweden too

anyways how are you doing?

also are there live meetings online; did we decide upon a day of week?

Kind regards,
Thomas

(Sent from my mobile)

On 8 okt 2009, at 01.47, "D. Michelle Hinn" <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Unfortunately all of the proposals for game accessibility for GDC SF  
> 2010 were turned down. I was wondering if anyone on this list got  
> anything in? There's a diversity "hearing" in the works within the  
> GDC itself, as it seems that every proposal we know about having to  
> do with diversity issues were eliminated in the first round. I'm  
> just double checking to see if everything was axed on our topic. If  
> you have not yet heard about the status of a proposal you may have  
> turned in, count it as rejected. They've already sent out the  
> acceptance and are now just sending out the funeral notices. :(
>
> In other news, this weekend is the big "tech migration" to the new  
> IGDA site so if you have been having trouble posting to the list,  
> that is why I've just learned. Please email me at hinn at uiuc.edu with  
> any questions of concerns.
>
> Michelle
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