Posts from ‘June, 2009’

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission met June 17 and voted to approve a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to conform its ADA regulations to the ADA Amendments Act Of 2008. The proposed NPRM is now sent for comment by other federal agencies pursuant to Executive Order 12067 and for approval by the Office of [...]

Virtual guide dog Max with new friends in Second Life. [Image source: Robin Roar/Flickr] See Helen Keller Day Flickr pool.
Via Helen Keller Day – Second Life Wiki.
Virtual Helping Hands and a coalition of community volunteers are proud to announce Helen Keller Day in Second Life. Helen Keller Day is a community-event exploring how and why [...]

Via Arts, Briefly – NYTimes.com:
Chris Anderson editor in chief of Wired magazine, apologized on Wednesday for copying parts of his forthcoming book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” from Wikipedia without attribution. The passages were discovered by a reviewer for The Virginia Quarterly Review, who was reading an advance galley of the book, which [...]

The U.S. Government Accountability Office(GAO) issued a report to Congress on voting accessibility. In “Voters With Disabilities: More Polling Places Had No Potential Impediments Than in 2000, but Challenges Remain” (GAO-09-685), the GAO found:
We found that, compared to 2000, the proportion of polling places without potential impediments increased and the most significant reduction in potential [...]

Via Wired Campus – Chronicle.com:
As instructors prepare for the fall semester, colleges are trying to make sure their teachers aren’t breaking any copyright laws in their lectures.
The City University of New York’s Baruch College recently released an interactive guide to using multimedia in courses.
Baruch’s online guide begins with background information on copyrighted material, presented by [...]