FCC Releases a Software Development Kit for the Accessibility Clearinghouse

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

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The FCC's Accessibility Clearinghouse is a Congressionally-mandated 
web repository of information about accessible communications 
products and services.  It is mandated by the 21st Century 
Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010 (CVAA), which also 
requires the FCC to promote this resource to the public.  The 
Accessibility Clearinghouse includes information on the following topics:

* accessibility features of mobile phones,

* accessibility contacts at telecommunications and advanced 
communications services companies,

* free assistive apps for various computing platforms, and

* organizations implementing the National Deaf-Blind Equipment 
Distribution Program (NDBEDP).

To enable more flexible and targeted use of Clearinghouse 
information, the FCC has released a software development kit (SDK) 
that makes custom programming of inquiries to the database relatively 
easy with a free, popular language called Python.  Python-based apps 
can query the Clearinghouse based on an application programming 
interface (API).  Clearinghouse Information may be selectively 
filtered and combined with data from other sources as mashups.  Views 
of information may be created that differ from the presentation on 
the Clearinghouse website, thereby tailoring value for particular 
constituencies or devices.

Related links:

Accessibility Clearinghouse
<http://www.fcc.gov/accessibilityclearinghouse>www.fcc.gov/accessibilityclearinghouse 


Blog post on the Clearinghouse SDK
<http://www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-releases-software-development-kit-accessibility-clearinghouse>www.fcc.gov/blog/fcc-releases-software-development-kit-accessibility-clearinghouse 


Source code of the Clearinghouse SDK
<http://www.github.com/FCC/clearinghouseSDK>www.github.com/FCC/clearinghouseSDK 


Demo of the Clearinghouse SDK
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pk0igOFmqY>www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pk0igOFmqY 


For additional information, please contact Jamal Mazrui, Deputy 
Director, FCC's Accessibility and Innovation 
Initiative:  <mailto:jamal mazrui fcc gov>jamal mazrui fcc gov or 202.418.0069.