[games_access] Post alert from AbleGamers on disability.gov

[Ian Hamilton]

There has been a little bit of progress in that regard in the UK too, with game accessibility being mentioned as part of the government's eaccessibility action plan. There was no concrete action or policy other than to just keep an eye on it and make sure that current initiatives in the UK like Kinect signing and SpecialEffect's work are progressing as they should, but even so, as with disability.gov reaching out to AbleGamers, just a few short years ago there's no way that they would have been aware of let alone recognising game accessibility, very encouraging indeed.

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> Hi all,
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> I just wanted to make sure all of you had a chance to read
> http://usodep.blogs.govdelivery.com/2012/08/15/ablegamers-foundation-ensuring-there-are-no-barriers-to-fun/
> - it's a guest blog post I did on disability.gov. What I think is the most
> encouraging is that they reached out to us, and that means government
> agencies are starting to recognize game accessibility as an important
> proposition.
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> Cheers,
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> Steve
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