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.

COAT Affiliate HLAA Secures Captioning at Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tennessee

COAT national affiliate HLAA secured captioning for more than 450 HLAA annual convention 2009 attendees when they watched The Grand Old Opry show in Nashville TN on June 20. While the Grand Old Opry screens to display captioning are not yet permanent, this is a step forward. More in news story online. HLAA, and many of its chapters, are instrumental in advancing public policy that benefits people with hearing loss including supporting the 21st Century Communications & Video Accessibility Act. Donate today to the COAT coalition! Comment on this story and others in the Add New Comment section.Your opinions are valued!

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I was there - it was amazing

Submitted by Lise Hamlin (not verified) on Mon, 06/29/2009 - 13:25.

I was there - it was amazing to have 400 people from the HLAA Convention in the audience watching Opry captioned on several screens in the theater (including the restrooms!). They also mentioned the captioning to their live radio and video audience. We need to follow up on that. We hope to see people request captioning for the Opry on a regular basis. Well, not just for the Opry - CART or Captioning should be everywhere!

Read Cheryl Heppner's

Submitted by Jenifer Simpson on Thu, 06/25/2009 - 12:33.

Read Cheryl Heppner's article on the HLAA convention on the NVRC website. She writes how Vint Cerf received an award from HLAA and summarizes his comments on how valuable broadband access to the Internet is to people with hearing disabilities.

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.

Congressman Ed Markey in photo of Congressional hearing room dais. Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), center, introduced the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009 (H.R. 3101) on June 26, 2009.

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President Obama signs the Accessibility Act

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

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

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Closed Caption button on remote.

COAT Affiliate HLAA Secures Captioning at Grand Old Opry in Nashville, Tennessee

I was there - it was amazing

Read Cheryl Heppner's

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