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Government, Industry, and Consumers Address Universal Design
at National Council on Disability News Conference
The National Council on Disability (NCD) released a report on universal
design at a
news conference on October 28, 2004 at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC.
Through its
report, Design for Inclusion: Creating a New Marketplace, NCD aims
to
educate designers and manufacturers of ATM machines, cell phones,
distance learning
software, personal digital assistants, televisions, and voice recognition
software about
how electronic and information technology intersects with the needs
of people with
disabilities.
Participants
include:
The Honorable
Joel I. Kahn, Ph.D., Member, National Council on Disability
The Honorable Benjamin H. Wu, Assistant Secretary
Nominee for Technology Policy,
U.S. Department of Commerce
PJ Edington, Governmental Programs Executive, Accessibility,
IBM
Jamal Mazrui, Technology Specialist, Federal Communications
Commission
Brad Fain, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist, Georgia
Tech Applied Research Institute
Laura Ruby, Manager, Regulatory and Industry Affairs,
Microsoft
Ken Salaets, Director, Government Relations, Information
Technology Industry Council
Kelly Pierce, Co-founder, Digit-Eyes
John Yeh, President, Viable Technologies
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