Dept of Justice Releases Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
29 07 2010All..
This is really exciting. Dept of Justice wants to hear from you all on various accessibility issues from ADA.
Accessibility of Web Info and Services
"The Department of Justice (Department) is considering revising the regulations implementing title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA or Act) in order to establish requirements for making the goods, services, facilities, privileges, accommodations, or advantages offered by public accommodations via the Internet, specifically at sites on the World Wide Web (Web), accessible to individuals with disabilities."
and this
"..considering revising the ADA’s title II regulation to establish requirements for making the services, programs, or activities offered by State and local governments to the public via the Web accessible."
I’ve said that many times before; hold your silence, gov’t decides what you need, but if you tell gov’t what you want, gov’t will follow your suggestions (at least if enough of you express, they usually do).
Sooo be brave and tell DOJ what you think and what should be done. Link explains how to express to the DOJ.
I will be one of them. My major beef is non-captioned of the video clips of news media like CNN and others. Be sure to instruct DOJ to create a rule not to use voice to text cuz it is not accurate yet, or use teleprompter cuz ad libs often are lost in that. We want the captioning of the whole shebang news clips.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed
Long Link:
Access – http://www.regulations.gov/search/Regs/home.html#documentDetail?R=0900006480b20b1a
I worked for the Lake County Government complex for 26 1/2 years and other deaf lady for 23 years. Both of us retired in 2000. I tried to suggest the department (Clerk Dept where we were working) to hire deaf person to work in the Government complex. Oh the place of this said is Lake County, Crown Point, Indiana. Since that they have not hired deaf or any disabled person to work. I do not see any handicapped persons working there as deaf and hard of hearing persons as now. Yes, there have tty in clerk’s office and also in county jail that they put them away. I am not very good with the words to explain. Hope you do understand me. Thanks
I use the laptop and many times there is a voice and I do not understand what is being said.
I believe any voice being said, there should be real time Closed caption like the Advertisments. I tried in vain to get the local TV news and weather to have real time CC. Problem is it cost too much.
2. I had dealt with ADA with the Dept. of Justice, US Human Resources, South Carolina U.S. Attorney, South Carolina Protection and advocacy for the disability about my family doctor wrote me a letter saying he no longer is hiring me a qualified interpreter when I went to visit the family doctor. I only got $700 from Dr. Brian Adler which I paid for him to remove the Cyst from my back. I suffered tremendous emotion problems with this case for 6 yrs. I thought I would get at least $100,000 like other Deaf folks. It took me three years to find another family doctor to hire me a qualified interpreter. I was told by the SC Protection and Advocacy for the Disability that SC is a very conservative state and that is why I gave up, but I shouldnt give up, I should get more money from the DOJ, US Human Resources and the SC U.S. Attorney for messing with my case in a lost pile. I did suffer with ADA for nothing.
hi
this is coming from a SC who is a tech/telecom dunce-
presume this comment is going to edsalert-
no response to my first contact attempt to Convo few weeks back
presume ‘mail’ means e-mail
I could not open the above www-
is this to the DOJ? is this the site I’m to use to ‘make the internet telecom needs known’?
Would you consider a doing a prototype letter that the ‘average John Doe’ Telecom dunce can send (either as is or modified) to the DOJ? One that could be sent out to other seniors to encourage follow-thru of ‘letting the government know what we need, instead of ‘they’ determining what’s needed?
A ‘layman’s message which states the specific, prioritized, recommended changes & inclusions to the telecommunication regulations to ensure the maximum ‘functional equivalency’ possible for deaf and deaf/blind people.
I caught your NAD presentation- appreciated your take on ‘functional equivalency ‘of the senses’ – I see application of this to ‘deaf-hearing’ team
interpreting- thanks- smile
Thank you for hearing me out-
Suggestion: American Sign Language (visual language) translations on video for any goods, programs, and advantages or any information provided to the public.
Lillian,
What you suggest is a very good suggestion. The problem is that there are many issues what DOJ released that need to be addressed. Little hard to do a generic letter without making specifications.
eyes open & thumbs up,
Ed