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 --------
Subject: FCC Releases Public Notice Seeking Comment on Deaf-Blind
Equipment Distribution Program
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 14:24:22 -0400
From: AccessInfo <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
*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*
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