[games_access] GDC + IGDA Tech Migration

[D. Michelle Hinn]

no online meetings yet -- i'm looking at the calendar and the emails  
and i think i have a good time that will work for most. i'll send out  
an email when i set a first date (hopefully for next week) and the  
login information. we're going to try skype with an msn backup plan  
in case things go wrong. so that meeting may be mostly testing and  
catching up!

so far across all diversity topics, we only know of the one poster  
session that was accepted on hearing. this is a very bad sign of  
things from GDC, especially since last year (although the time slot  
was not ideal) we did have a pretty large crowd. unfortunately the  
sound engineers in the room would not pay attention to my complaints  
about the audio feedback (it was only at the speaker's podium) and i  
ended up doing the talk with my voice repeating itself about a  
second's delay. again, only i heard that but the engineers knew it  
was an issue (other speaker's complained) but for me, since it was  
still close to the time i'd had the brain tumor treatment on broca's  
area (communication...) it was like a super whammy! it was all i  
could do to focus on one single strand of sound. it felt like what i  
have read about those with hearing impairments that get an implant or  
otherwise get some hearing for the first time in their lives go  
through. total audio chaos! yes, that was a MAJOR ADA issue but not  
one i'd predicted ahead of time.

anyway...we have other conferences to get the word out on the  
accessibility movement but the GDC route seems roadblocked at this time.

michelle

On Oct 8, 2009, at 2:02 PM, <thomas at pininteractive.com> wrote:

> 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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