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COAT advocates for accessibility and usability of technology for people with disabilities. Enacting the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (21st CVAA) was a huge step forward and we are working to implement this new law. COAT’s overall aim is to ensure accessibility, usability, and affordability of all broadband, wireless, and Internet technologies for people with disabilities.

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COAT Affiliates Try for Captioning of Webcast for Upcoming House Health Care Reform Hearing

Several COAT affiliates (AAPD, CSD, NAD, Norcal, and Ultratec) tried to ensure that an upcoming U.S. House committee hearing's webcast would be captioned. The Committee staff assured us on Friday June 12  that the June 24, 10:30 a.m. hearing on health care reform by the House Ways & Means Committee would be webcast and captioned.They have now retracted this (Monday June 22) saying only that there will be sign language interpreters present, a DVD and transcript made available later via email and that it would be "captioned on C-Span live TV."  Complaints about this should go to the Office of Congressional Accessibility Services, Crypt of the Capitol, Senate 156, Washington, DC 20510, Attn. David Hauck, Director. 

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Webcast  may not be

Submitted by Jenifer Simpson on Mon, 06/22/2009 - 13:29.

Webcast  may not be captioned, the staffer now tells me. But she says they will get the camera man to keep the sign language interpreter(s)  on screen...for the webcast! She also said it "would be captioned on C-Span" which will air it live. Also said a  DVD -- within a day -- and Transcript (week or more) will  be available by email

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That wouldn't work for oral

Submitted by Noelle Perese (not verified) on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 15:51.

That wouldn't work for oral deaf people who aren't familiar with ASL. This does not meet the definition of reasonable accommodations.

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COAT leaders at the FCC

Andrew Phillips, National Association of the Deaf; Eric Bridges, American Council of the Blind; Mark Richert, American Foundation for the Blind; and Jenifer Simpson, American Association of People with Disabilities, outside the FCC building, Washington DC, after meetings on pending rules under 21st CVAA.

Celebration of the bill's final passage

Rep. Ed Markey and Legislative Director Mark Bayer celebrate the bill’s final passage on September 28, 2010, in front of the Helen Keller statue, with the leaders from the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology: Karen Peltz Strauss, formerly with Communication Service for the Deaf; Jenifer Simpson, American Association of People with Disabilities; Rosaline Crawford, National Association of the Deaf. Their hands symbolize clapping in sign language.

21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act

President Obama signs the Accessibility Act

President Obama signed the 21st
Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act into law on October 8, 2010, with many key advocates and lawmakers in attendance.

Senator Mark Pryor (AR)

Senator Mark Pryor (AR) received AAPD’s Justice For All Award July 26, 2011 for his leadership with Senate passage of the 21st CVAA.

Key FCC Staff working on 21st CVAA

Key FCC staff working on 21st CVAA: Karen Peltz Strauss, Rosaline Crawford, Eliot Greenwald

Sesame Street video with captioning and description. Sesame Street video with captioning and description.

Closed Caption button on remote. Closed Caption button on remote.