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Wireless RERC researchers were featured at the 2014 International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN) in San Diego, California March 17-22, 2014.  Links to presentations are below.

March 2014 — Technology and Disability Policy Highlights (TDPH) editors produced over 160 stories in 2013, covering a wide range of disability issues. The “hot” topics were education, employment, health and implementation of the Twenty First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act.  Measured by social media sharing rates, last year’s top five stories were:

Today, AT&T Foundation announced a $50,000 contribution to Shepherd Center to assist researchers in the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for Wireless Technologies (Wireless RERC) in launching a series of seminars to help consumers with disabilities uncover the range of accessibility features found on their mobile devices. Seminars are scheduled for five cities – Atlanta, Ga., Austin and Dallas, Texas, Chicago, Ill., and Washington, D.C. – throughout this spring and summer.