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FCC Announces Agenda for Open Commission Meeting
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Regulatory

December 2013 —The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced the agenda for an Open Meeting to be held on December 12, 2013.  The agenda includes considerations for a Report and Order to im

Wireless RERC Awards Funding for Development of Apps
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Wireless RERC News, Apps

November 25, 2013 — Each year, the Wireless RERC’s App Factory invites experienced organizations or individual developers based in the U.S.

LifeLabs Presents the Design-athon
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November 2013 – In November, United Cerebral Palsy’s Life Labs partnered with Enabled by Design and Futuregov to host the first International Enabled by Design-athon in Washington, D.C.  Over 100 p

Save the Date! State of the Science on Employment & Disabilities
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November 2013 — The University of New Hampshire in partnership with the Rehabilitation Research and Training Center for Evidence Based Practice in Vocational Rehabilitation (RRTC-EBP-VR) and the Ke

NIDRR Awards Funding for Cloud Computing Research
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November 2013 — The U.S.

FCC Task Force to Address the IP Transition
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Regulatory

November 2013 — On November 19, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler released a blog post entitled The IP Transition: Starting Now.  The post highlighted future eff

Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines: Call for Testing
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Regulatory, Other News

November 2013 — W3C announced that the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (ATAG 2.0) have been published as a W3C Candidate Recommendation.

Court Rules that NYC Violated the ADA
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Emergency Communications, Other News

November 2013 — A recent ruling by the United States District Court found that New York City failed to accommodate the needs of people with disabilities when planning for and responding to disaster

Call For Participants: Cognitive Accessibility Task Force
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November 2013 — The newly developed W3C Cognitive Accessibility Task Force is seeking new members.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
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Mobile Broadband, Regulatory, Other News

November 2013 — W3C has issued a request for reviewers for the last call working draft regarding Implementing User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) 2.0.

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