Announcement – “Making RPG Podcasts Accessible” at PodCon2

Writing Alchemy Announcement Summary

I will be leading a workshop about “Making RPG Podcasts Accessible” on January 20th at PodCon2 in Seattle. For those who can’t attend this workshop in-person, it will be in the remote attendance feed for PodCon2. As an accessibility feature, I have created reference document that goes over all of the topics covered in the workshop, which you can find on the Writing Alchemy website.

Workshop Description: In the US one in four adults has a disability. This means that there are a lot of disabled people in the RPG podcast community, however physical, social, and game play barriers often prevent the full inclusion of disabled participants and audience members. This workshop is about identifying common barriers and addressing them. We will discuss areas to be aware of, accessibility tools, strategies for handling pitfalls, and ways to improve representation of disabled people.

Also, on Tuesday you can check out my interview with Tess on the I Am Hear podcast where we talk about disability, accessibility, my first experiences with role-playing games, and the way I’m designing my role-playing game, Magic Goes Awry, around the core principle of accessibility.

Photograph of a silver and black desktop microphone sitting on a white surface with its black cord trailing off to the left.

Announcement Transcript

In order to make these transcripts as accessible as possible, each one is produced in four formats: as an online post for access convenience, in a word document with a low vision friendly font (Veranda), in a pdf with a dyslexia friendly font (OpenDyslexic), and a low contrast blue on black pdf as an access option for people with migraines (Veranda).

Online transcript: https://writing-alchemy.net/2019/01/13/transcript-of-announcement-making-rpg-podcasts-accessible-at-podcon2/

Word doc: Writing Alchemy PodCon2 Announcement transcript

Pdf: Writing Alchemy PodCon2 Announcement transcript OpenDyslexic3

Blue on black: Writing Alchemy PodCon2 Announcement transcript blue on black

Main transcripts page: https://writing-alchemy.net/podcast-2/transcripts/

Transcribed by: Fay Onyx

Show Notes

Workshop Links

PodCon2: https://www.podcon.com/

The “Making RPG Podcasts Accessible” workshop at PodCon2: https://podcon2.sched.com/event/Jrpv/making-rpg-podcasts-accessible

PodCon2 Scholarship Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScsl9UhtYlYYXfIVCyFVME2p0j1hoLbFiWrKGieyvETlojJhg/viewform 

The “Making RPG Podcasts Accessible” reference document: https://writing-alchemy.net/resources/rpg-podcasts/

I Am Hear Links

I Am Hear Podcast: https://iamhearpodcast.com/

The I Am Hear episode I’m in: Link coming soon

Fay’s Links

You can become my patron on my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/WritingAlchemy

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TeePublic Store: https://www.teepublic.com/stores/writing-alchemy?ref_id=8162

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Music and Sound Credits

Intro: Mellowtron (Kevin MacLeod) / CC BY 3.0

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