AAPD Urges U.S. Senate to Consider 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Legislation for People with Disabilities. -May 8, 2008
Celebrity & Hero Witnesses Support Equal Access To Communications and Video Technologies at House Hearing May 1st. -May 1, 2008
AAPD Recommendations to FCC on assigning phone numbers for users of Internet protocol-based Telecommunications Relay Service and Video Relay Service. -April 17, 2008
COAT Applauds National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners for its Resolution Supporting Equal Access to Communications Technologies. -March, 2008
Cell Phone Can Read Documents for Blind - The Nokia cell phone is loaded with software that turns text on photographed documents into speech. -January 28, 2008
House Releases 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act - It proposes to add consumer protections to ensure people with disabilities do not get left out or left behind. -December 21, 2007
Disability Coalition Urges FCC - to take action in response to industry wireless petition so TTY users are not left behind as technology services increasingly use the Internet. -December 6, 2007
AAPD Letter to FCC Chairman Martin - in support of the XM-Sirius satellite radio merger if accessibility steps continue as a condition. -December 6, 2007
New Devices Open Communications for Deaf - a device that allows a hearing person and a deaf person to type messages to each other. -November 6, 2007
AAPD Letter to FCC Chairman Martin in support of a petition by a wireless prepaid carrier for Eligible Telecommunications Carrier status that permits provision of Life-Line and Link-Up subsidies for low income persons. -October 24, 2007
AAPD Comments to FCC in support of Speech-to-Speech relay service (STS) for persons with speech disabilities and specifically for greater outreach about the STS form of relay service. -October 10, 2007
AAPD Comments to FCC against Video Relay Service (VRS) providers who prohibit their sign language interpreters from working with competing VRS providers for one year after employment contracts expire. -September 21, 2007
WGBH Receives $600,000 Grant to Develop Solutions for Captioning Handheld Media for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Citizens. -August 28, 2007
Disability Coalition Urges Action by Wireless Industry to Improve Disability Accessibility, August 14, 2007, " a press release by the 100-member Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology (COAT) about the multiple consumer complaints filed at the FCC recently by consumers complaining about inaccessible cell phones. -August 14, 2007
Blind Customers Take Action against the Cell Phone Industry an effort to improve cell phone accessibility. -August 6, 2007
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