[Missouri-l] {Spam?} {Disarmed} Fw: [coataccess] COAT news/website updates as of Thursday September 16, 2010

[Chip Hailey]

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From: Jenifer Simpson 
To: coataccess at yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2010 2:47 PM
Subject: [coataccess] COAT news/website updates as of Thursday September 16, 2010


  

Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) News/updates as of Thursday, September 16, 2010



Update on the Legislation --"Twenty-First Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act":  As you may recall, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3101 on July 26, 2010 by a vote of 348:23 and the U.S. Senate followed soon after, passing S. 3304 on August 5, 2010 via unanimous consent. However, there is still a parliamentary process step to occur before our legislation goes to the President for signature whereby they deal with some technical corrections (including a grammar and a spelling error!).  The COAT steering committee expects this to happen very soon, so please stay tuned.  You will be first to know of any action that occurs! When the bill is enacted, our focus will be primarily on implementation and enforcement. Not only are multiple industries affected by this legislation (TV, phone, Internet, IT, wireless) but we also know the implementing agency, the Federal Communications Commission, will have more than a dozen rulemakings that everyone will want to become involved with. Once more is known, meetings of the Coalition can be scheduled, hopefully to both celebrate Presidential signing AND to plan around our bill's implementation.



Some New Items on the COAT Website

Summer's Over But There's still Accessibility Camp, DC Saturday Oct. 9, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9846

COAT Affiliates Meet with CEA on Accessibility, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9851

U.S. Access Board to Hold Accessible Information Tech Listening Session, Sept. 30, Chicago, IL, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9828
AFB Files Comments to FCC on Assessment of Barriers to Accessible Mobile Technology, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9847
"Message to Silicon Valley" Video (cc'd) about Inaccessible Wireless Communications; with cc'g by COAT Affiliate CCAC, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9830
COAT Affiliates Consider Cloud Computing, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9849
Office of Management & Budget Issues Accessibility Guidance Letter, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9841
New Zealand to Pilot Video Description on Digital TV in 2011, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9832
Videocritter Asserts They Can Fix YouTube's Automated Bad Captions, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9850

KUDOS TO COAT AFFILIATES--Making Impact Everywhere!
COAT Affiliate VITAC Quoted in Pittsburgh Post Gazette: "Captions on the Web", at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9829
COAT affiliate WGBH Media Access Center tells how to make museums accessible http://tiny.cc/59xxk
COAT affiliate Gracias VRS describes itself as a trilingual video relay service company:  ASL-English-Spanish, at http://www.graciasvrs.com/
COAT affiliate National Black Deaf Advocates (NBDA) Treasurer Halliburton named to Gallaudet Board of Trustees http://www.nbda.org/
COAT affiliate ATA shows a range of simple adaptive, assistive & usable technology http://www.ataccess.org/ (cc'd video clip)

COAT affiliate ACB submits comments to DOT about accessible transportation needs of blind people http://tiny.cc/brmvl

UK: COAT International Friend RNIB provides website accessibility consulting services http://tiny.cc/o3rzt

Canada: COAT International Friend Neil Squire Society makes website more accessible using WC3guidelines http://tiny.cc/ws51q

UK: COAT International Friend researching accessibility topics, at http://tiny.cc/tgxik 

Over seven COAT affiliates are listed as advocacy organizations by the wireless phone trade association, see at http://tiny.cc/qq3b5 



More Things To Do:  

Check out the readability of YOUR website at http://juicystudio.com/services/readability.php#readweb

COAT affiliate American Academy of Audiology has Quickie Test for you to check if you have hearing loss you are unaware of http://tiny.cc/2p8cf
Learn about how some large commercial websites were made accessible through structured negotiations, at http://www.coataccess.org/node/9796#comment-1045



Thank YOU for your continuing efforts to make accessible communications and video accessibility happen! Nothing will stop us! We are reaching the goals!



Sent out by Jenifer Simpson at AAPD, a founding and steering committee member of the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT)

More at http:/www.coataccess.org

P.S. if you find dead URLs or broken links, bad spelling, or something wrong, please let us know at info at coataccess.org  Thanks!

END





Jenifer Simpson

Senior Director  for Government Affairs

American Association of People with Disabilities (AAPD)

Washington, DC USA

http://www.aapd.com




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