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News Advisory
Speaker Update
NCD #04-464
October 25, 2004
Contact: Mark S. Quigley
202-272-2004
202-272-2074 TTY
mquigley@ncd.gov
Government, Industry, and Consumers to Address
Universal Design at National Council on Disability News Conference
WASHINGTON—The National Council on Disability
(NCD) will release a report on universal design at a news conference
at 10:00 a.m., October 28 at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street,
NW, 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.
Speakers 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
For more information, contact Mark Quigley or Joan
Durocher at 202-272-2004.
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