Hi Aiden, A mailing list allows members to post messages which are broadcast to all of the other mailing list members via email. The application you use for this is your email application. An Internet forum (also frequently known as message board) is an application on a website which allows people to post messages that can be seen by either members of the forum (people who registered with the forum) or visitors - this depends on the forum settings. The forum we use at AudioGames.net is, as far as we know, fully accessible. It has been in use by visually impaired users for several years now and never have received any accessibility complaints. Most fora on the internet are more or less accessible because they're primarily text-based. However, many fora allow people to post inaccessible content, such as images without alt-attributes (=text descriptions of the image) or multimedia without an accessible alternative). This doesn't make the forum itsself inaccessible, but parts of the posts can be inaccessible. For our forum we wrote a script to check whether or not the poster has added an alt-attribute, and if not he will receive a notification of this in text under his image. For multimedia we don't have such a solution yet. Fortunately, about 99.9% of all the posts on the AudioGames.net forum are text so no worries ;)
Here it is: http://forum.audiogames.net/ Greets, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "aiden gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:56 PM Subject: [Audyssey] audio games.net forum wasRe: Optional accessible gamesmirror? > hi dark, > > Just a quick question. How accessible is the audio games forum, and what's > the difference between a forum and a mailing list? I've never quite > understood what the difference is. > > Aiden > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <gamers@audyssey.org> > Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:51 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Optional accessible games mirror? > > >> Hi Tom. >> >> with reguards to audiogames.net, it is actually being updated at the >> moment, >> and will hopefully be both completely up to date and able to keep up with >> community changes soon. but obviously sinse it's not been updated for a >> while there's a fair amount of work to be done. Hopefully in a few weeks >> there should be pages for most games with download links and descriptions >> and such, ----- but it is quite a task stil. >> >> Just to clarrify, the download links on the game pages are mostly links >> to >> download the files from the appropriate sites, ---- and like everything >> else >> they are being updated. >> >> there are plans in the works I believe to host old games like the Pb >> stuff, >> Simon's games from http://www.simonsgames.com/news.php and some >> others, ---- >> obtaining old versions of abandoned games where possible as well. >> >> About the mirror, I think it's a good idea if you've got the space, sinse >> A, >> I'm not sure when things on audiogames.ent will be running smoothly, and >> you >> can never be too careful with these things, and as munawar said mirrors >> could be great for devs and others amd file hosting (blind cool tech >> stil! >> haven't posted my long Smugglers 3 review, and I'd love to hoast it >> somewhere), not to mention quicker downloads. >> >> Also, if you've got perminant web space, perhaps you could considder >> hosting >> the superdeakout scoreboards, and the word list databases for search >> party >> and chain link, so that people will stil be able to submit scores and >> make >> and share new word chains etc, ---- of course this is assuming that >> changing >> the program to point to Usa games rather than DanZ games wouldn't be too >> much trouble (I was assuming you could just cp the address, but I'm not >> sure). >> >> Beware the Grue! >> >> Dark. >> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the > list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
