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CEA Subcommittee to Address Internet Delivered Closed Captions
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Assistive Technology, Regulatory

06.13.2012 – The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Television Data Systems Subcommittee has formed a new working group to examine the effects of Internet-delivered closed captioning in relatio

21st Century Digital Government Strategy
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Publications / Reports

03.23.12 – The Federal Chief Information Officer has released the report “Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People” outlining a strategy for governme

FCC Accepting Nominations for the Chairman’s Awards for Advancement in Accessibility
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Regulatory

05.23.12 – The FCC has begun accepting nominations for the Chairman’s Awards for Advancement in Accessibility (Chairman’s AAA).  The awards are “designed to recognize the efforts of individuals, or

President Urges Senate to Ratify Treaty
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Legislative

05.17.2012 – President Barack Obama urged the Senate to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted by the United Nations on in 2006 and signed by the United

Department of Education Funding Opportunity
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05.21.12 – The Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) has issued a notice inviting applications for funding opportunities concerning technology and media services for

Wireless RERC Recommends Accessibility Concerns be Included in the NTIA CPS Supplement
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Wireless RERC News, Mobile Broadband, Regulatory

05.31.2012 – The Wireless RERC filed comments with the Department of Commerce “In the Matter of Computer and Internet Use Supplement to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey” [FR Doc.

Jim Mueller Presents at AIA Convention
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Wireless RERC News

Jim Mueller, co-project director for the Wireless RERC’s User-Centered Research project , presented samples from the “Getting Wireless: Exploring Universal Design in Wireless Technologies” student

New Haptic User Interface Prototype for Smartphones
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06.05.2012 – Tactus Technology gave the first public demonstration of Tactile Layer, at the 2012 Display Week in Boston, Massachusetts.  Tactile Layer is a “deformable tactile surface” “with real p

New Free App for the Blind and Print-disabled
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Apps

06.04.2012 – NFB-NEWSLINE, a service sponsored in part by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), launched a free Apple app allowing users to access the NFB-NEWSLINE free audible newspaper serv

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The Wireless RERC is testing a solution for subscribing to emails. This would allow you to choose what alerts you would like to receive and when.

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