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Skype isn't so good for community, discord is both more likely to already be running and scalable with channels and roles for moderation and admins etc.
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Personally I wouldn't be averse to adding to the pressure on Discord to get through their accessibility backlog more quickly, already bugging them on twitter about CVAA.<br>
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Email always as primary with discord for chewing the fat sounds good though.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Thomas Westin <thomas@westin.nu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:49:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ian Hamilton<br>
<b>Cc:</b> games_access@lists.igda.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [games_access] SIG discord?</font>
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<div>Perhaps use Skype while we are waiting for Discord to catch up? Skype works at least for two of my blind friends.
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<div class="">Also, I’d say to have the mail list as the primary channel anyway; e-mail is where everyone is (except kids) and is technology neutral (don’t rely on a specific company). But maybe I’m just getting old and grumpy :)</div>
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<div class="">On 19Mar 2019, at 18:38, Ian Hamilton <<a href="mailto:i_h@hotmail.com" class="">i_h@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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We've talked about this a few times before I know, but it has come up again.</div>
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On one hand - discord is where people already are, and there are already good discipline-specific accessibility channels within the user interface and user research discord servers.</div>
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On the other hand - discord has screenreader accessibility issues, particularly on mobile.</div>
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Is a cross-discipline discord channel something that people would want or use? If so, how to mitigate the accessibility issues? They'll have to be fixed sooner or later as they're in clear breach of CVAA, and the Discord team have claimed to have kicked off
a program of accessibility improvements. But until that happens? Treat it as supplemental with the mailing list still the primary means of communication?</div>
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