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From: Mike Moore
Date: Aug 17, 2004 11:41AM







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Knowbility will be
hosting a press conference tomorrow, August 17, at the Texas State
Capitol at 2:00 PM in the Speakers Committee Room CAP 2W.6 (West Wing of
the Main Building on the second floor) to announce AIR-Austin 2004.
Present at the conference will be Austin Mayor Will Wynn, AIR-Austin 2004
Chairman Alex Cavalli, Director of the University of Texas
IC2 Institute, AIR-Austin 2003 Chairman Bill Morrow, CEO of Grande
Communications, Knowbility's Executive Director, Sharron Rush plus
representatives of SBC, IBM, Grande Communications and Primus Networks.

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AIR-Austin is an
accessible web design competition that matches teams of professional web
designers and developers with area non-profit organizations in need of web
sites. The developers receive training in accessible web development
techniques and the non-profit organizations receive professionally designed web
sites.
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There will be
demonstrations of assistive technologies, as well as convergent technologies
that benefit from the same design techniques that make web sites accessible to
screen readers and other assistive technologies.
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The press conference
is open to the public and everyone is welcome to attend. There is free
parking available in the visitors parking garage for the first
hour.
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A map of
the Capitol is a available at the following url: <A
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For more information
about AIR-Austin and to learn how you can be a part of this award winning
program, please visit <A title=http://www.knowbility.org/air-austin/
href="http://www.knowbility.org/air-austin/">http://www.knowbility.org/air-austin/
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Mike Moore
Technology Specialist
Knowbility Inc.
512.837.6301 Main/Home
512.305.0311 Knowbility
Office
512.632.3580 Cell
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