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From: Kara Zirkle
Date: Sep 12, 2011 3:12PM

Hello all,
We apologize in advance if this is reaching you as a duplicate email
or post. We are sending out a reminder email for our upcoming
conference in October and wanted to ensure you have time to register
for the event.


*Register Now
<https://www.cvent.com/events/access-employment-and-learning-technology-showcase/registration-00cb2893d2fe46669071402effdf0d8e.aspx>for
Mason's 2nd Annual*


*/Access, Employment & Learning/
Technology Showcase
October 10-11, 2011*


*George Mason University -- Fairfax, VA
(Dewberry Hall, Johnson Center)*

*[PLEASE NOTE:**Attendance is free_ONLY_for individuals within the
Mason community. Please use this link,Mason Students, Staff, and
Faculty Registration!!
<http://websurvey.gmu.edu/survey/entry.jsp?id=1310500531546>;, if you
are a Mason student, staff, or faculty member.]*

*CEUs will be available. Check with the registration desk during the
showcase!!*

*_Attendee_*

$30 per day or $50 for both days (includes parking and lunch
voucher)

*Questions about registration?? - *ContactKaren Tai
<mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> >- 703-993-5442 <tel:703-993-5442>
*Questions about the conference?? - Contact Assistive Technology
Initiative <http://accessibility.gmu.edu/techshowcase2011.html>; -
703-993-4329 <tel:703-993-4329> *


Featuring Keynote Speaker,

*/Daniel Goldstein (Brown, Goldstein, & Levy LLP)/*

dan goldstein

/*Daniel Goldstein*/of the Baltimore law firm of Brown, Goldstein, &
Levy will be the featured speaker. He has been practicing disability
rights law for nearly twenty-five years, principally on behalf of
the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Over the past 12 years,
he has aided NFB in devising and executing a strategy of education,
litigation, and negotiation to make mainstream technology accessible
to the blind. Through his work, websites like Target and Amazon, as
well as devices like ATMs, voting machines, and mainstream e-reading
devices like the Kindle e-book reader are now accessible to the
blind. Most recently, he secured a victory in the Ninth Circuit
assuring that blind test takers who use screen reader software as
their primary reading method are entitled to use such software in
high stakes testing. Additionally, he is representing NFB in its
fight against some higher education institutions that have adopted
the less accessible Google Apps for Education (as opposed to a more
accessible solution) as a means of providing email and collaboration
tools to students and faculty.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you in October -

Accessibility@Mason <mailto:Accessibility@Mason>

--

Kara Zirkle
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Assistive Technology Initiative
Aquia Building, RM 238
Mail Stop: 6A11
Fairfax Campus
4400 University Drive
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone: 703-993-9815
Fax: 703-993-4743
http://webaccessibility.gmu.edu
http://ati.gmu.edu

***Look for information on our 2nd Annual Access, Employment and
Learning Conference, October 10 and 11th on our website:
http://accessibility.gmu.edu/techshowcase2011.html***