[games_access] Awesome Announcement Time - Partnership with Film Victoria

[Tara Voelker (Tefertiller)]

Hello Everyone!

SO AWESOME NEWS!!!!

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.

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)

Now I am pleased to announce that game accessibility considerations have
been officially implemented into their application process!

They are very proud over at Film Victoria to leading the way in government
funded accessible games.

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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