Currently, the Smithsonian National Postal Museum is working on a flash-based project. The museum has a center called the Ford Education Center (FEC) which has 5 touch screen computers and they offer cool content such as games, maps, informative tidbits about stamps and the postal operations all in flash program. The content in the touch screen computers are not accessible to visitors outside of the museum and we're currently working on making the games available on our website.
What we would love to do is to have you and some of your colleagues who are blind or have low vision to test out our flash games to make sure they are accessible. We want to see if the audio-descriptive tags work and if they are FUN, and to see if you were able to cle arly understand the games in order to play them. The games we offer at the FEC are the following: matching games, sorting the mail game, and stamp collecting games. Would you be interested? Would you have friends and/or colleagues who would be interested in participating? Basically our plan is to work on one game at a time. The first is the Sorting the Mail game (this is where you move mail into boxes categorized by city). Then we'll have a core group of people who are blind/have low vision to come in and test out the games and give us feedback. If the game is successful, we'll move forward with the next game and the process starts again. I haven't set a date as to when the testing would begin, but I'll know more information once I talk to our contractor. If you want more information about the Ford Education Center, we have a bit of commen tary in this link: http://www.postalmuseum.si.edu/museum/1n_FEC.html Please let me know if you have any questions or if you need me to clarify anything. Otherwise, please email me at jacqu...@si.edu to inform me of your interest by COB April 16th (Friday). Thank you so much! Tabitha Jacques Jim Check my web site for my free blind accessible pc dos and windows games. j...@kitchensinc.net http://www.kitchensinc.net (440) 286-6920 Chardon Ohio USA --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. 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/gam...@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.