[Missouri-l] Fw: [acb-l] FW: [leadership] August Recess Equals Time to Meet with Your Elected Officials

[Chip Hailey]

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mitch Pomerantz" <mitch.pomerantz at earthlink.net>
> To: <acb-l at acb.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 4:35 PM
> Subject: [acb-l] FW: [leadership] August Recess Equals Time to Meet with 
> Your Elected Officials
>
>
>> FYI:
>>
>>
>> Mitch Pomerantz
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Eric Bridges [mailto:ebridges at acb.org]
>> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 11:31 AM
>> To: leadership at acb.org;
>> acb-l-digest-sc.1238423837.kakmkpbbinilnldpohmp-ebridges=acb.org at acb.org
>> Subject: [leadership] August Recess Equals Time to Meet with Your Elected
>> Officials
>>
>> As we get set to enter the month of August and a full month of 
>> congressional
>> recess, there is advocacy to be done on a couple of ACB's legislative
>> initiatives. This is the first of two messages.
>>
>>
>>
>> As many are aware, H.R.3101,  The Twenty-First Century Communications and
>> Video Accessibility Act was introduced in late June by Rep. Ed Markey
>> (D-ma). I encourage you all to reach out to your members of congress to
>> discuss this legislation and its importance to you. We are actively 
>> seeking
>> cosponsors for the bill in the House and are very much seeking to have a
>> companion peace of legislation introduced in the Senate. Here is what 
>> this
>> legislation seeks to accomplish.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> About the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
>>
>> - require that mobile and other Internet-based telecommunications devices
>> have accessible user interfaces, and offer people with disabilities use 
>> of a
>> full range of text messaging and other popular services that are 
>> currently
>> largely inaccessible;
>>
>> - provide people who are deaf-blind with vital but costly technologies 
>> they
>> need to communicate electronically,
>>
>> - restore the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC's) modest video
>> description rules and unambiguously establish the Commission's current 
>> and
>> ongoing authority to expand such regulations, require emergency
>> announcements and similar information to be accessible to people with
>> disabilities through audible presentation of on-screen alerts,
>>
>> - ensure that video programming offered via the Internet will be 
>> described,
>> and call for all devices that receive and playback video programming to
>> employ accessible user interfaces and allow ready access to description; 
>> and
>>
>>
>> - strengthen consumers' ability to enforce their rights to communications
>> and video accessibility through the establishment of a clearinghouse of
>> information about service and equipment accessibility and usability, a
>> meaningful FCC complaint process that holds industry accountable for 
>> their
>> accessibility obligations, and judicial review of FCC action to ensure 
>> the
>> Commission's own accountability.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> CURRENT COSPONSORS
>>
>>
>>
>> Rep. Barbara Lee - California
>>
>> Rep. Linda Sanchez - California
>>
>>
>>
>> If you are not  certain who your representative is,  please use
>>
>> www.house.gov/writerep
>>
>> and enter your zip code.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you might
>> have.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> Eric Bridges
>>
>> Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs
>>
>> American Council of the Blind
>>
>> 2200 Wilson Blvd. Suite 650
>>
>> Arlington, VA 22201
>>
>> Phone: (202) 467-5081
>>
>> Fax: (703) 465-5085
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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