[Blindmath] Fwd: NEW LISTSERVE to support the Developing with Accessibility Event

[Jamal Mazrui]

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Subject: 	[SEC508] NEW LISTSERVE to support the Developing with 
Accessibility Event
Date: 	Thu, 19 Jul 2012 18:43:56 -0500
From: 	Gregg Vanderheiden <gv at trace.wisc.edu>
To: 	Sec508 <sec508 at trace.wisc.edu>, Uaccess-L 
<uaccess-L at trace.wisc.edu>, ERIG - WAI <w3c-wai-er-ig at w3.org>, IG - WAI 
Interest Group List list <w3c-wai-ig at w3.org>



Most have heard about the FCC event  Developing with Accessibility  (See 
notice below)

A listserve (devacc at lists.wisc.edu <mailto:devacc at lists.wisc.edu>) has 
now been setup to  facilitate a community discussion in support of the 
DevAcc event and infrastructure.

You can sigh up at Subscribe Address:join-devacc at lists.wisc.edu 
<mailto:join-devacc at lists.wisc.edu>



/Gregg/
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Gregg Vanderheiden Ph.D.
Director Trace R&D Center
Professor Industrial & Systems Engineering
and Biomedical Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Co-Director, Raising the Floor - International
and the Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure Project
http://Raisingthefloor.org   --- http://GPII.net




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*From:* AccessInfo
*Sent:* Tuesday, July 17, 2012 10:33 AM
*To:* Jamal Mazrui
*Subject:* Developing with Accessibility Event

Subject: "Developing with Accessibility" Event

When: September 6-7, 2012

Time: 8:30 AM - 5:30 PM on each of two days

Where:  FCC Commission Meeting Room and training rooms

RSVP:  Please RSVP by August 31, 2012 to devacc at fcc.gov 
<mailto:devacc at fcc.gov>

The FCC's Accessibility and Innovation Initiative (A&I) is planning an 
event called "Developing with Accessibility," at the FCC's headquarters 
on September 6 and 7, 2012.  The event is designed to spur increased 
collaboration on accessibility solutions among developers from industry, 
consumer, and government sectors.  The event will encourage the use of 
accessibility APIs (application programming interfaces), as well as 
publicly available data sets, in order to build accessible apps for 
mobile phones and websites.  A key objective is to promote the concept 
and practice of developing applications with regard for 
generally-accepted accessibility guidelines, thereby maximizing their 
usability for everyone, including people with disabilities.

The event will offer training on development topics, in-person 
collaboration on programming projects, and professional networking among 
developers.  As important as the actual event itself will be 
collaborative activity in electronic spaces before, during, and after 
the event.  Rather than limit this to accomplishments that can be 
achieved during a single, in-person event, this Developer event is not 
intended to be an end in itself, but will instead serve as an organizing 
opportunity to create mechanisms for ongoing collaboration among 
developers who are interested in building accessible technology solutions.

It is also a goal of the A&I to make smart use of new media tools to 
create electronic spaces for such collaboration.  We encourage others to 
also activate online collaboration spaces associated with this effort.  
To this end, we suggest use of a particular abbreviation, "DevAcc," as 
an electronic tag that facilitates searching and coordination toward 
these objectives.

Please pre-register for the event by sending your name, affiliation, and 
contact information to devacc at fcc.gov <mailto:devacc at fcc.gov> by August 
31, 2012. Also send disability accommodation requests to FCC504 at fcc.gov 
<mailto:FCC504 at fcc.gov>.

If there are particular ways that you'd like to participate, or related 
activities that you'd like to inform us about, also feel free to write 
to devacc at fcc.gov <mailto:devacc at fcc.gov>.

The meeting site is fully accessible to people using wheelchairs or 
other mobility aids. Open captioning and assistive listening devices 
will be provided on site. Other reasonable accommodations for people 
with disabilities are available upon request. Include a description of 
the accommodation you will need and tell us how to contact you if we 
need more information. Make your request as early as possible. Last 
minute requests will be accepted, but may be impossible to fill. Send an 
e-mail to: fcc504 at fcc.gov <mailto:fcc504 at fcc.gov> or call the Consumer & 
Governmental Affairs Bureau at 202-418-0530 (voice), 202-418-0432 (tty).

The general session of the event will be webcast with open captioning at

http://fcc.gov/live