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From: Waltenberger, Lon (LNI)
Date: Oct 11, 2010 2:57PM

On October 8, last Friday, President Obama signed the 21st Century
Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010.





From Disability.gov at
http://www.disability.gov/technology/accessible_technology:



"This law will ensure that Americans with disabilities can more fully
participate in society and enjoy all that new technologies have to
offer--especially Internet-based and mobile services. The new law will
make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or have low vision to
access the Internet, smart phones, television programming and other
communications and video technologies. The law will also make sure that
emergency information is accessible to individuals who are blind or have
low vision."





President Obama's remarks at

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/10/08/remarks-president-
signing-21st-century-communications-and-video-accessib.





Andrew Kirkpatrick's (Corporate Accessibility Engineering Lead for Adobe
Systems) blog about his attendance at the signing at

http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/2010/10/president-obama-signs-acces
sibility-act.html.





Summary of the law from the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible
Technology at

http://www.coataccess.org/node/9776.





PDF of this Act (ironically and pathetically not tagged with no language
specified but after processing by NVDA starts out as readable) at

Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010
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