[AGDev-newbies] Is this still working?

[AudioGames.net]

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> I would like to see the guidelines being adopted.  The people in
> question are doing a lot of work on making them more possible to adopt
> and it would be great to see that begin to happen.  In the future, I
> expect it will; is just a matter of when.
*quote end*

I have some issues with the guidelines as how they look now (completely 
useless) and I think the Game Accessibility Patterns (as well as some other 
ideas presented at Develop Brighton) are a far more useful tool for 
developers instead of blindly copying a W3C format. My issues are that the 
the "guidelines" have been developed not only using the IGDA GA White Paper 
without contacting the IGDA GA-SIG (and shamelessly literally copying 
content from it as well), as well as that no representative from the 
professional game industry has been involved (who probably who have objected 
to the majority, if not all, of the guidelines). What are your opinions 
about this, Matthew? For example:

"5.6 Use explicit auditory feedback and rewards
Auditory feedback and rewards should be explicit and easy to understand."

Does this mean: explicit rewards? explicit auditory rewards? just rewards? 
what is a reward? that you win? that you gain an item? that a gamer can 
create his own t-shirt in the Sims 2? And then it says: P1 for ALL ... 
explicit auditory feedback and rewards for the deaf?

K, just one example but I think it says it all...

*quote*
> It is a shame to hear about the organisational issues but it sounds like
> you recovered from that given the participants :-).  I look forward to
> hearing more about it.
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Ernest Adams is likely to participate in the Game Accessibility Book we are 
writing - either a foreword but maybe even a chapter. Ernest Adams' new 
upcoming book, by the way, does already include an appendix concerning game 
accessibility.

*quote*
> That's the plan -- are you going there too?
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No, unfortunately not, or something weird should happen.... if I could I 
would :)

Greets,

Richard