STC AccessAbility SIG
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STC Usability SIG Topics in Usability: Accessibility
STC Usability SIG articles on "Accessibility, Ergonomics, and Special Audiences" at http://www.stcsig.org/usability/topics/
Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability Bi-weekly column by Dr. Jakob Nielsen, principal, Nielsen Norman Group
Futures Laboratory The Argonne Futures Lab performs basic and applied research in advanced communications, collaboration, and visualization technologies (for example, teleimmersion) to enable [...]

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Access Board Emergency Evacuation Procedures is the Access Board’s current emergency evacuation plan, which it is making publicly available, along with information on how it was developed, as a resource for other organizations who may implement or update their own plans.
Access Board’s Resources on Emergency Evacuation and Disaster Preparedness The Access Board develops and maintains [...]

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(Note: This article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 edition of Communicator, the quarterly journal of ISTC - Institute of Scientific and Technical Communicators. The AccessAbility SIG is grateful for the permission to reprint the article here.)
Richard Hodgkinson reports on new developments for European ICT documentation accessibility.
Regular readers of these pages will recall my reports [...]

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Today, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) entered into force. When you realize that an estimated 650 million people worldwide are affected by this groundbreaking treaty, this is very big news.
According to the news release about CRPD from the UN News Centre today, the rights of persons with disabilities [...]

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TEITAC proudly presented its report to the United States Access Board on April 3rd concerning revision recommendations regarding the standards for section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and the guidelines for section 255 of the US Telecommunications Act.
The April 3rd TEITAC announcement can be read in its entirety on the Web, as well as [...]

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Bone and Joint Decade 2002-2011 The Bone and Joint Decade is a multidisciplinary world wide initiative involving everyone concerned with the care of bone and joint disorders.
Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Foreign Policy and Disability: Legislative Strategies and Civil Rights Protections to Ensure Inclusion of People with Disability [...]

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Levottomat Jalat - Restleass Legs ry RJ-RLS
"Mobile telephony for people with disabilities – A guide to choosing a mobile phone" from the Nordic Forum for Telecommunication and Disability (NFTH) 2004. A PDF file of the report is also available.
The Nordic Development Centre for Rehabilitation Technology (NUH) is a subsidiary of the Nordic Co-Operation on Disability [...]

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