[nabs-l] {Disarmed} FW: New Legislation Set to Improve Internet Access for the Disabled

Joe Orozco jsorozco at gmail.com
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Subject: New Legislation Set to Improve Internet Access for the Disabled



New Legislation Set to Improve Internet Access for the Disabled


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<http://www.readwriteweb.com/Closed_captioning_symbol.png> President Obama
signed into law today the 21st Century
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h3101:> Communications and Video
Accessibility Act, legislation that will help people with disabilities
access and participate in the digital world.

The law establishes federal guidelines that will require the
telecommunications industry to make sure that the devices they build and
programs they transmit are accessible to those with hearing and vision
impairments. The new law requires a number of measures including an improved
UI for smart phones that includes verbal commands, captioning for online TV
programming, and compatibility between Internet telephone calls and hearing
aids.

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As the President noted in the signing, the law "sets new standards so that
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worker needs the necessary skills to compete for the jobs of the future."

Although some argue
<http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/oct/08/new-communications-law-mandates-clos
ed-captioning-internet/>  that these standards will likely help improve the
quality of the technology that is available, others note that the
implications will go beyond simply access to better technology. The cost of
the equipment used to fulfill some of these tasks now and to make the
Internet accessible is estimated to cost deaf and blind Americans about $10
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/building-online-ramps-to_b_7547
80.html> million a year. 

Before signing the measure today, the president noted that 2010 marks the
20th anniversary of the enactment of the landmark Americans with
Disabilities Act. But much of the emphasis of the ADA has been on ensuring
access to the physical world. The law signed into effect today is meant to
ensure that access also applies to the digital world.

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President Obama signed into law today the 21st Century
<http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:h3101:> Communications and Video
Accessibility Act, legislation that will help people with disabilities
access and participate in the digital world.

The law establishes federal guidelines that will require the
telecommunications industry to make sure that the devices they build and
programs they transmit are accessible to those with hearing and vision
impairments. The new law requires a number of measures including an improved
UI for smart phones that includes verbal commands, captioning for online TV
programming, and compatibility between Internet telephone calls and hearing
aids.

As the President noted in the signing, the law "sets new standards so that
Americans with disabilities can take advantage of the technology our economy
depends on. And that's especially important in today's economy, when every
worker needs the necessary skills to compete for the jobs of the future."

Although some argue
<http://www.thetakeaway.org/2010/oct/08/new-communications-law-mandates-clos
ed-captioning-internet/>  that these standards will likely help improve the
quality of the technology that is available, others note that the
implications will go beyond simply access to better technology. The cost of
the equipment used to fulfill some of these tasks now and to make the
Internet accessible is estimated to cost deaf and blind Americans about $10
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rep-ed-markey/building-online-ramps-to_b_7547
80.html> million a year. 

Before signing the measure today, the president noted that 2010 marks the
20th anniversary of the enactment of the landmark Americans with
Disabilities Act. But much of the emphasis of the ADA has been on ensuring
access to the physical world. The law signed into effect today is meant to
ensure that access also applies to the digital world.


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1.	
These new requirements for closed captioning, time-coded transcripts, in all
broadcast video content offered online mark an important milestone the
promise of TV convergence. These captioning metadata can be used by semantic
engines to identify Linked Data entities and derive highly granular dynamic
understanding of the content - to better present viewers with powerfully
relevant related information and recommendations.

	Early experiments is such dynamic semantic treatments of transcripts
include:

	Link TV's "View Change" http://www.viewchange.org/
Mozilla's "Popcorn" http://webmademovies.etherworks.ca/popcorndemo/
The BBC's "Backstage" http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/data_art/tvrelatedcontent/

	
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