[Accessibility-testing] Last chance for pre-launch comments! (Respond by Wednesday night, please!)

[Jason McIntosh]

Hi gang,

I’ve tweaked http://accessibility.iftechfoundation.org a bit according to recent discussion, and it’s ready for a final pass-over before our launch. Please share any feedback you may have before end-of-day Wednesday!

The main content differences are these:

• It invites questions to me directly (at my IFTF email address), or to the mailing list. I know we discussed earlier making a mail alias available that went to all of us, but… I suddenly felt that offering two non-personal email addresses was too confusing. So I opened for “Contact me, or contact this list, whichever you’d rather.” If people do contact me I’ll share with y’all as appropriate. Sound good?

• I updated the dates on the website and on the surveys, and I changed the “Below the Opera” survey to the newer, shorter one. (Comments on which are still welcome.)

• I updated the link to Twine of Access to the newest draft, including my recent changes.

And finally, here is my proposed greeting, via the new mailing list, to all testers:

Greetings!

You are receiving this email because you agreed to be part of the AbleGamers Player Panels call for the Accessibility Testing Project for Interactive Fiction. 

I am Jason McIntosh, chair of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation's accessibility testing program, and I would like to extend my sincere thanks for your interest in our project.

You can learn more about the two games we'd love to get your feedback on at this website: http://accessibility.iftechfoundation.org. As it states there, the testing period is open from today through Monday, February 4. If you complete one or both of the games' post-play surveys by that date, then we would be pleased to offer you a $10 Amazon gift card as a token of gratitude.

This mailing list — testing2019 at iftechfoundation.org — includes every person who agreed to help as a tester, plus all the current members of IFTF's accessibility committee. You may, if you wish, post messages to this list if you'd like to ask questions or make comments that the whole group may be interested in. You are also very welcome to contact me directly (jmac at jmac.org) with any questions or comments about this project (or about IFTF or interactive fiction in general).

If, on the other hand, you ever wish to stop participating in this test, you can unsubscribe from this list through the link found at the bottom of any of this list's posts.

That should do it for now. Again, please do visit http://accessibility.iftechfoundation.org at your convenience, and I very much look forward to hearing from you!