[games_access] GDC + IGDA Tech Migration

[Thomas Westin]

don't worry too much about that Michelle, I think the message was  
clear enough and I think people understand that the audio tech problem  
was not your fault + you told the audience about your surgery

/Thomas

On Oct 9, 2009, at 1:46 AM, D. Michelle Hinn wrote:

> 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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