And give my credit card number out to?
Sorry but this sounds like a spam.
Even if its true I don't think mass mailing the government would help.
If I was bothered I guess I could do that.
but they are not worth me actually making something to keep flooding
for no reason.
I am not exactly that bored either.
All these petitions don't exactly go anywhere and I have no confidence.
Look at the wayfinder petition.
Does anyone have some comment on this.
at this point though dean where did you pull this from anyway.
At 09:21 p.m. 28/08/2012 -0400, you wrote:
ALERT!--1 Email from You Can Keep the FCC from Throwing Accessible
Gaming Tech Under the Bus!Subject: ALERT!--1 Email from You Can Keep
the FCC from Throwing Accessible Gaming Tech Under the Bus!
ALERT!--An Email Today'll Keep the Waiver Away!
Tell the FCC to Say NO
to Inaccessible Gaming and Communications Technologies!
For further information, contact:
Mark Richert, Esq.
Director, Public Policy, AFB
(202) 469-6833
mrich...@afb.net
Some time ago, lobbyists representing the highly lucretive gaming
technology industry filed a petition with the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) seeking a formal waiver from any requirement
stemming from the landmark Twenty-First Century Communications and
Video Accessibility Act (CVAA) ensuring that key communications
features, such as text chat and other forms of electronic messaging
included with their gaming technologies, will be accessible. While
the CVAA does permit the FCC to grant waivers in those instances
where specific technologies may be both designed and marketed for
primary purposes other than the kinds of communication contemplated
in the new law, the FCC is nevertheless completely within its
authority to refuse to grant waivers for such technologies.
There are signs that the FCC may be generally sympathetic to the
interest of people with disabilities in accessible gaming
technologies that incorporate various kinds of communication.
However, it has recently come to our attention that the FCC may be
under the impression that people with vision loss themselves are not
particularly interested in the accessibility of gaming technologies.
Advocates should set them straight.
Send a brief email today to Karen Peltz Strauss, Deputy Bureau
Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, FCC at
karen.stra...@fcc.gov
In your short, polite but firm message, tell the FCC how you feel
about the ability of people who are blind or visually impaired to
fully use the most popular gaming technologies on the market today.
Remind the FCC that the growing popularity of gaming technologies in
K-12 education to foster learning, use of gaming technologies to
increase movement and exercise, and the overall impact of gaming
technologies to bring people together, means that the accessibility
of such technologies must not be thrown under the bus. Indeed, if
the communications features of such technologies are allowed to
continue to be inaccessible, kids, adults and seniors with vision
loss will continue to be shut out of full participation in school
and community and will not be able to enjoy the full benefits
afforded by such technologies.
Astoundingly, the industry representatives arguing for the waiver
say that a waiver of the accessibility requirements of the new law
is necessary to allow industry maximum opportunity to innovate and
thereby build on their alleged track record of success meeting the
access needs of people with disabilities. Tell the FCC what you
think of the kind of technological innovation that routinely leaves
people with vision loss behind; we're left behind while industry
brags about their access accomplishments at the same time they seek
legal maneuvers, like the proposed waiver, to shirk their responsibilities.
The FCC is expected to act very soon on the proposed waiver, so send
your message to the FCC today!
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