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United States of America Federal Communications UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION NATIONAL BROADBAND PLAN WORKSHOP BROADBAND ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES II: BARRIERS, OPPORTUNITIES, AND POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS Washington, D.C. Tuesday, October 20, 2009 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 2 1 PARTICIPANTS: 2 Welcome: 3 SHERRESE SMITH Legal Advisor for Media, Consumer, and Enforcement 4 Issues, Office of the Chairman 5 Logistics: 6 CHERYL J. KING Disability Rights Office, FCC 7 Panel 1: Leveraging Federal and State Resources to 8 Make Broadband Accessible and Affordable 9 Moderators: 10 CHERYL J. KING Deputy Chief, Disability Rights Office, FCC 11 ELISE KOHN 12 Deputy Director, Adoption and Usage, FCC Broadband Team 13 Panelists: 14 GARY BOJES, Ph.D. 15 Senior Level Program and Policy Advisor, Rural Utility Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture 16 C. MARTY EXLINE 17 Director, Missouri Assistive Technology Program 18 JENNIFER SHEEHY Director of Policy and Planning, Office of Special 19 Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS), Department of Education 20 TERRY WEAVER 21 Director, IT Accessibility & Workforce Division Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services 22 Administration (GSA) ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 3 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 DANIEL WEITZNER Associate Administrator for the Office of Policy 3 Analysis and Development, Department of Commerce, NTIA 4 Panel 2: Accessibility and Affordability Barriers 5 to Broadband and Internet Use Faced by People with Disabilities 6 Moderators: 7 JOHN HORRIGAN 8 Consumer Research Director, FCC Broadband Team 9 ELISE KOHN Deputy Director, Adoption and Usage, FCC Broadband 10 Team 11 STEVE MIDGLEY Education Director, FCC Broadband Team 12 JING VIVATRAT 13 Workforce Development Director, FCC Broadband Team 14 Panelists: 15 ERIC BRIDGES American Council of the Blind (ACB) 16 ROSALINE CRAWFORD, 17 Director, Law and Advocacy Center, National Association of the Deaf (NAD) 18 PAULA DURBIN-WESTBY 19 Member, Board of Directors, The Autistic Self Advocacy Network 20 MARGARET V. PEGGY HATHAWAY 21 Vice-President for Public Policy, Spinal Cord Advocates 22 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 4 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 REBECCA LADEW East Coast Representative, Speech Communications 3 Assistance by Telephone, Inc. (SCT) 4 ELIZABETH SPIERS Director of Information Services, American 5 Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) 6 JIM TOBIAS President, Inclusive Technologies 7 ELIZABETH WEINTRAUB 8 Member, Council on Quality and Leadership 9 Panel 3: Advancing National Purposes for People with Disabilities 10 Moderator: 11 KRISTEN KANE 12 Director of National Purposes, FCC Broadband Team 13 Panelists: 14 Jim Fruchterman President, Benetech (Education) 15 MARGARET V. (PEGGY) HATHAWAY 16 Vice-President for Public Policy, Spinal Cord Advocates (Jobs/ Civic Participation ) 17 ISHAK KANG 18 CEO/Founder, dot UI (Smart Grid) 19 KATHERINE D. SEELMAN, Ph.D. Professor, Rehabilitation Science and Technology, 20 University of Pittsburgh (Healthcare: Telerehabilitation) 21 22 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 5 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 CLAUDE STOUT Executive Director, Telecommunications for the 3 Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) (Public Safety) 4 Panel 4: Technological Barriers and Solutions 5 Moderator: 6 WALTER JOHNSTON 7 Chief, Electromagnetic Compatibility Division, OET, FCC 8 Panelists: 9 GREG ELIN 10 Chief Technology Officer, United Cerebral Palsy and Executive Director, Life Without Limits 11 JIM FRUCHTERMAN 12 President, Benetech 13 DALE HATFIELD Executive Director, Silicon Flatirons 14 JOHN SNAPP 15 Senior Technical Officer, Intrado 16 GREGG VANDERHEIDEN, Ph.D. Director, Trace Center, University of 17 Wisconsin-Madison 18 Policy Roundtable 19 Moderators: 20 MICHAEL J. COPPS Commissioner 21 ELIZABETH LYLE 22 Policy Advisor, Broadband FCC Broadband Team ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 6 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 ERIK GARR General Manager, FCC Broadband Team 3 MARY BETH RICHARDS 4 Special Counsel for FCC Reform, Office of the Chairman 5 SHERRESE SMITH 6 Legal Advisor for Media, Consumer, and Enforcement Issues, Office of the Chairman 7 JENNIFER SCHNEIDER 8 Broadband, Wireline and Universal Service Legal Advisor, Office of Commissioner Copps 9 Government Observers: 10 DAVID FURTH 11 Deputy Bureau Chief, PSHSB, FCC 12 JANE JACKSON Associate Bureau Chief, WTB, FCC 13 CHERYL KING 14 Deputy Director, Disability Rights Office, CGB, FCC 15 MARK STONE 16 Deputy Bureau Chief, CGB, FCC 17 TERRY WEAVER Director, IT Accessibility and Workforce Division, 18 GSA 19 Participants: 20 ROB ATKINSON President, Information Technology and Innovation 21 Foundation 22 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 7 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 ELLEN BLACKLER Executive Director, AT&T 3 ALAN BRIGHTMAN 4 Senior Policy Director, Yahoo! 5 KATHRYN BROWN Senior Vice President, Public Policy Development 6 and Corporate Responsibility, Verizon 7 DEBORAH BUCK Executive Director, Association of Assistive 8 Technology Act Programs (ATAP) 9 DAVID CAPOZZI Executive Director, U.S. Access Board 10 LARRY GOLDBERG 11 Director, Media Access Group at WGBH 12 PATRICK HALLEY Director, Government Affairs, National Emergency 13 Numbering Association (NENA) 14 DALE HATFIELD Executive Director, Silicon Flatirons 15 MATTHEW KNOPF 16 Vice President, Business Development, PLYmedia 17 JANE MAGO Executive Vice President and General Counsel, 18 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) 19 HELENA MITCHELL, Ph.D. Executive Director CACP And Principal 20 Investigator, Wireless RERC, GA Tech 21 RANDY POPE, American Association of the Deaf-Blind (AADB) 22 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 8 1 PARTICIPANTS (CONT'D): 2 KEN SALAETS Director, Global Policy, Information Technology 3 Industry Council (ITIC) 4 PAUL SCHROEDER Director, Programs and Policy, American Foundation 5 for the Blind 6 GRANT SEIFFERT President, Telecommunications Industry Association 7 (TIA) 8 DANE SNOWDEN Vice President, External and State Affairs, 9 CTIA-The Wireless Association ® 10 CLAUDE STOUT Executive Director, Telecommunications for the 11 Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc. (TDI) 12 KAREN PELTZ STRAUSS Co-Chair, Coalition of Organizations for 13 Accessible Technologies (COAT) 14 JIM TOBIAS President, Inclusive Technologies 15 GREGG VANDERHEIDEN 16 Director, Trace Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison 17 JOE WAZ 18 Senior Vice President, Comcast Corporation 19 20 * * * * * 21 22 ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 9 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 MS. SMITH: You fine. Can you guys hear 3 me? Hello? Hello? Okay. There we go. 4 Good morning. I'm Sherrese Smith. I'm 5 the Chairman's Legal Advisor for Media, Consumer, 6 and Enforcement Issues. 7 And on behalf of the Chairman and the 8 Chairman's Office, I would like to welcome you to 9 today's workshop on Broadband Access for People 10 with Disabilities. 11 We are happy that more than 200 of you 12 are already signed up either online or here in the 13 room, and we appreciate you coming today and 14 sharing in this experience. We think it's really 15 going to be a very important and informative day. 16 As most of you know, Chairman 17 Genachowski is very committed to ensuring that 18 people with disabilities have full access to 19 communications. And we at the FCC know that it is 20 critical that these issues concerning access for 21 people with disabilities are fully integrated into 22 the National Broadband Plan that the Commission ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 10 1 will deliver to Congress in February. 2 In addition, we know that the 3 accessibility issues pose very complex challenges, 4 and we are committed to bringing together all of 5 the stakeholders to address these very difficult 6 issues. 7 Now to that end, we have a very full day 8 planned. The workshops that we hold today build 9 on the NOI record, a town hall meeting that we 10 held in August, and a detailed public notice that 11 we issued in September. 12 We have almost 65 stakeholders involved 13 from the disability community, from industry, 14 academia, non-profits, and all levels of 15 government today, and they are participating on 16 panels and in a policy roundtable, and exhibiting 17 accessible technologies that will be important to 18 the community later on. 19 We hope that today will provide a very 20 robust opportunity for people to give us their 21 ideas, to give us their recommendations, and to 22 tell us how we can best serve the community going ANDERSON COURT REPORTING 706 Duke Street, Suite 100 Alexandria, VA 22314 Phone (703) 519-7180 Fax (703) 519-7190 www.andersonreporting.net 11 1 forward. 2 I know that I personally look forward to 3 participating in the policy roundtable later on 4 today, and I've already heard from some of you 5 with some very great ideas, and I look forward to 6 kind of thinking through some of those issues 7 later on. 8 I think I'd like to also take the 9 opportunity to note that Commissioner Copps will 10 be holding a field hearing on November 6th at 11 Galludet University, and he will be addressing 12 these very same issues.
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