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Re: 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of2010

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From: Andrew Kirkpatrick
Date: Oct 11, 2010 7:06PM

Lon,
The line is wrapping, that's why you're having some difficulty. Try http://goo.gl/qc8P for a shortened link.

Regarding the PDF of the act, just to clarify, NVDA isn't processing the untagged PDF, Adobe Reader is. When Reader encounters an untagged PDF (as this one is, and yes, shouldn't be) it will add tags automatically, but it is a machine conversion and isn't perfect. On documents like this one you really miss the headings and well-structured lists, and those still take a human to get just right.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe Systems

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Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 8:00 PM
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No idea what happened to the link/URL for the untagged PDF during
transmission but here's another try:

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

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills
&docid=f:s3304enr.txt.pdf


...Lon

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Lon (LNI)
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 13:52
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: [WebAIM] 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility
Act of2010

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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