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The Information Technology Technical Assistance & Training Center (ITTATC)
Announces
An Audio Conference on July 21, 2004 from 1-3 PM ET

Speaking Out About Inaccessible Information and Telecommunication Technology



To commemorate the 14th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), we invite you to participate in an event that will help people with disabilities voice their need for more accessible information and telecommunication technology.

At this free event, which will be both educational and action-oriented, a panel of experts will describe how the ADA and other federal laws and regulations apply to inaccessible technology, and how to use those laws to complain when inaccessible information and telecommunication technology is encountered in the marketplace or the workplace. Consumers will be encouraged to take action during the hands-on portion of the event by working with the local host site facilitators and the experts to generate letters of complaint, which will be forwarded on to the appropriate organizations.

Click here to read a transcript of the event.

The targeted audience includes:
  • People with disabilities
  • Family members
  • Service providers
The event format allows you to participate from:
  • Anywhere with a phone or Internet access (The event will be an audio conference call, with simultaneous webcast captioning and the ability for two-way text communication.)
  • A local host site, if available (Click here to see the current list of locations that have agreed to host this event.)
The objectives of the event include:
  • Educating consumers on the following federal laws:
    • The Americans with Disabilities Act, Titles I, II, III, and IV
    • The Rehabilitation Act, Sections 501, 504, and 508
    • The Communications Act, Sections 255 and 713
    • The Hearing Aid Compatibility Act
    • The Television Decoder Circuitry Act
    • The Televised Emergency Programming Mandates
  • Facilitating the creation and submittal of letters of complaint to the appropriate organizations.
  • Bringing together and inspiring collaboration among a vast and diverse network of individuals with disabilities and their advocates in order to focus them on the important issue of accessibility
  • Advancing the state of accessibility of technology by helping consumers to voice their demands to industry, governments, and non-profit organizations
Moderated by:
Michael Morris, Chair, ITTATC State IT Initiatives Workgroup

Featuring:
Karen Peltz Strauss, Principal
KPS Consulting
(and formerly Deputy Chief of the Consumer Information Bureau at the FCC)

Deborah Bursa, Director of Technical Assistance
The Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
Georgia Institute of Technology - CATEA

Tim Creagan, Director of Consumer Training
The Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
Georgia Institute of Technology - CATEA


Resources for the audioconference:
  • Speak Out About Inaccessible Information and Telecommunication Technology
  • Presentation for July 21, 2004 audioconference
    You may want to save these files to your own computer so that you can access them offline. To do this, right click on the link and choose "Save Target As". Alternately, you can click on the links and the documents will open in a new window.
  • Worksheet for generating letters of complaint during July 21, 2004 audioconference
    You may want to save these files to your own computer so that you can access them offline. To do this, right click on the link and choose "Save Target As". Alternately, you can click on the links and the documents will open in a new window.

This nationwide event is sponsored by:



Date: July 21, 2004   º   Time: 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET

Click here to read a transcript of this event.

Note: All registered participants will receive a printed or CD version of the Speak Out! resource, which can be viewed online at http://www.ittatc.org/technical/speakout/index.php.

For more information:
Please contact Deborah Bursa at 404-894-4621 / deborah.bursa@ittatc.org, or Trystan Phifer O'Leary at 508-660-5487 / trystan-phiferoleary@uiowa.edu.

Previous ITTATC web casts can be accessed at http://www.ittatc.org/training/web_training.php#webcast



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Information Technology Technical Assistance and Training Center
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