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From: Katie Haritos-Shea
Date: Feb 14, 2015 10:47PM

Wonderful news Phill!

* katie *

Katie Haritos-Shea @ GMAIL
On Feb 14, 2015 2:44 PM, "Phill Jenkins" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I have good news to share with you about the update of the Access Board's
> Section 508 standards and Section 255 guidelines. Yesterday, the Office
> of Management and Budget cleared our notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM);
>
> it will now be sent to the Federal Register for publication. We will make
> the NPRM and supporting documents available on our website (
> http://www.access-board.gov) on Wednesday, February 18. It should be
> published in the Federal Register shortly after that.
>
> We will provide a 90 day public comment period and will hold two public
> hearings on March 5 and March 11. Here are the details for the public
> hearings:
>
> March 5, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (PT)
> Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel
> One Market Place
> Mission Beach A & B (3rd floor)
> San Diego, CA 92101
>
> Note: This hearing will be held in conjunction with the CSUN Conference
> but persons wishing only to testify need not register for the conference.
>
> March 11, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (ET)
> U.S. Access Board Conference Room
> 1331 F Street, NW
> Suite 800
> Washington, DC 20004
>
> Witnesses can testify in person at the hearing in San Diego. Witnesses
> can testify in person or by telephone at the hearing in Washington, DC.
> Copies of the rule will not be available at the hearings. Call-in
> information and a communication access real-time translation (CART) web
> streaming link for the Washington, DC hearing will be posted before the
> hearing at http://www.access-board.gov/ictrefresh.
>
> For information on pre-registering to testify, please contact Kathy
> Johnson at (202) 272-0041, (202) 272-0082 (TTY), or
> <EMAIL REMOVED> .
>
> If you have questions about the rule once it is made public, please
> contact Tim Creagan at (202) 272-0016, (202) 272-0074 (TTY), or
> <EMAIL REMOVED> .
>
> P.S. We will also offer a free webinar about the proposed rule on Tuesday,
>
> March 31 from 1:00 pm - 2:30pm (ET); you can sign up for the webinar at
> http://www.adaconferences.org/CIOC/
>
>
> David M. Capozzi
> Executive Director
> U.S. Access Board
> 1331 F Street, NW
> Suite 1000
> Washington, DC 20004-1111
>
> 202-272-0010 (direct dial)
> 202-272-0054 (IP TTY)
> 202-480-7149 (mobile)
>
> <EMAIL REMOVED> (e-mail)
> www.access-board.gov (web site)
>
> Visit our website and sign up for one of our free webinars.
>
> re-posting my earlier post, it didn't come through my digest, so I wasn't
> sure it was posted.
> > Regards,
> Phill Jenkins,
> IBM Accessibility
> > > >