Fw: media: AbleTV's webcast of the GSA access Forum

In view of the discussion of Webtv and accessible design I thought some of you might find the below
of interest.
Ray T. Mahorney
WA4WGA
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Heres hoping that this is getting out with enough time for many of you
to
attend and participate in the webcast.  Please remember you need to
have
the Real G2 player version 8 installed on your computer in order to
view
the webcast.  I would appreciate it if this information could be
forwarded
on to other lists where it has not been viewed yet.  Thanks and I look
forward to many of you coming and participating in the event.

Jeffrey Pledger
President, AbleTV, Inc.

PRESS RELEASE
TVWorldwide.com's AbleTV Channel to Webcast GSA's Accessibility Forum
Event
on Section 508, Live, Friday, May 11
Huge Government, Industry Participation Expected in Accessible
Interactive
Webcast, Friday, May 11, 9-12 AM EST at http://www.abletv.net on the
TVWorldwide.com Network
For Immediate Release
Tuesday, May 8, 2001
Contact:        info(at)tvworldwide.com
TV Worldwide.com, Inc.
http://www.tvworldwide.com
(703) 961-9250

Jeff Pledger
able(at)abletv.net
http://www.abletv.net
(301) 890-5944
(703) 598-2253

Chantilly, Va. - TVWorldwide.com, Inc. announced today that AbleTV.net,
the
web-based TV channel for people with disabilities on the
TVWorldwide.com
network, will provide live interactive and accessible webcast coverage
of
the Government Services Administration's Accessibility Forum, Friday
May 11
from 9-12 AM from Gallaudet University's Kellogg Conference Center in
Washington D.C. The event, sponsored by GSA's Center for Information
Technology Accommodation (CITA) is an industry, user, and government
partnership aimed at developing effective and broadly accepted metrics
and
methods to assess Electronics and Information Technology (E&IT) product
accessibility for people with disabilities, as defined by Public Law
105-220-408(B), Section 508. The free webcast will feature AbleTV.net's
live captioned video streaming or "webcaptingsm" process to assist
on-line
participants with disabilities and serve AbleTV's growing audience.
This
AbleTV webcast is sponsored by TVWorldwide.com and its strategic
partners,
Booz Allen and Hamilton and Post Newsweek Tech Media Group.

"We're excited about the prospect of offering this important GSA event
for
accessible on-line participation worldwide, " stated Dave Gardy,
Chairman
and CEO of TVWorldwide.com.  "AbleTV is renowned for its webcasts
addressing issues important to the community of those people with
disabilities and we welcome everyone tuning in worldwide."

The mission of the Accessibility Forum is to provide government
agencies
and vendors of E&IT and Assistive Technology with effective and broadly
accepted metrics and methods to assess whether E&IT products comply
with
Section 508 accessibility standards. The Accessibility Forum seeks
industry
leadership and user involvement in development of these accessibility
assessment metrics and methods. The Accessibility Forum will also
provide
the infrastructure for continuing collaboration and dialogue between
users
and vendors. It should also provide a means for vendors to gain insight
into accessibility needs that could be addressed in future products.

The webcast will be directed by Jeff Pledger, President of AbleTV.net,
who
lost his sight 17 years ago due to illness.  "We are pleased to provide
captioned streaming for this live event webcast with TVWorldwide.com, "
remarked Pledger. "GSA is fulfilling its commitment to make government
and
industry aware of Section 508 issues to level the E&IT playing field
for
people with disabilities."

The program will be archived with the captioning for later viewing
after
the webcast at  http://www.abletv.net and on TVWorldwide.com's federal
education channel, Fed EdTV at http://www.fededtv.com.  Participants
should
have the free Real Player version 8 installed prior to the event.
Questions
can be directed to info(at)tvworldwide.com before and during the event and
direct phone communication to the TVWorldwide.com webcast staff at
(703-
961-9250, ext. 223.)

About TVWorldwide.com and AbleTV.net
In addition to being a video streaming service
provider,  TVWorldwide.com  is building a network of community-based
Internet TV channels, each underwritten by a strategic partner,
"aimcasting" to targeted B2B and special interest audiences worldwide.
TVWorldwide.com has worked with one of its first aimcast channels,
AbleTV.net, to pioneer live and archived video streaming with open
captioning to aid web site accessibility for the disabled. With this
advance, AbleTV.net has received charter sponsorship from Microsoft
Corporation, Sun Microsystems and NCR.

Regards Steve,
mailto:pattist(at)ozemail.com.au



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