[games_access] Awesome Announcement Time - Partnership with Film Victoria

[Tara Voelker (Tefertiller)]

It's up!
http://igda-gasig.org/2011/10/11/announcement-partnering-with-film-victoria/


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      Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org




On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <
ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org> wrote:

> JUst an FYI, the announcement post was delayed due to a typo on Film
> Victoria's end. They had accidently called us the Independent Game
> Developers Assoication, so I wanted that to go ahead and let them fix that
> before we had tons of people looking at our site and theirs. The typo should
> be fixed today, and the announcement will hit out website and such soon to
> follow.
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>       Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org
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> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Tara Voelker (Tefertiller) <
> ttefertiller at igda-gasig.org> wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone!
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>> SO AWESOME NEWS!!!!
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>> I had been contacted by Brad Goblin, who runs the investment fund for game
>> development (everything from tiny indie games to larger handheld/console
>> games) for the Victorian state government in Australia, Film Victoria.  When
>> he contacted us, they been discussing adding accessibility requirements into
>> their funding guidelines, and providing appropriate funding to design,
>> develop and test projects for accessibility and asked for our help.
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>> I said we were interested, and the steering committee and I kicked it into
>> overdrive to get the site updated and ready! (That's why we finally updated
>> the layout and updated our top 10)
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>> Now I am pleased to announce that game accessibility considerations have
>> been officially implemented into their application process!
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>> They are very proud over at Film Victoria to leading the way in government
>> funded accessible games.
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>> Later today I will have an official announcement on the site, as well as
>> links to the Film Victoria page and the application. Once that has been
>> done, this will also be on our Facebook and Twitter, and Ryan has said the
>> he will post it on the main IGDA page and twitter as well.
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>>       Tara (Tefertiller) Voelker - Chairperson : igda-gasig.org
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