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FYI - in case any FOSS accessibility users want to share their
thoughts with the FCC as to how to best distribute "specialized
customer premises communications equipment" (which we might call AT
hardware and software in IT parlance) to people who are deaf-blind
in the US. This is part of a mandate in the new 21st Century
Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010, signed into law
last month. Peter -------- Original Message --------
Today, November
3, 2010, the Consumer and Governmental
Affairs Bureau of the FCC released a Public Notice seeking
comment on the best
way to implement a national program that will distribute
specialized customer
premises communications equipment to individuals who are
deaf-blind.
This Public Notice is being released to implement a
mandate in the newly
enacted 21st Century Communications and Video
Accessibility Act, which requires
rules on this issue within 6 months. We encourage you
to file comments in this proceeding,
and ask that you note carefully the short comment
deadlines, which are needed to
comply with the very tight schedule established by the
21st Century
Act. The Comment due
date is November 17, 2010 and the
Reply
Comment due date is November
23, 2010. To retrieve an
electronic copy of the Public Notice
please click on the link below. http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-10-2112A1.doc |