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Colleges Lock Out Blind Students Online, by Marc Parry “Colleges that wouldn’t dare put up a new building without wheelchair access now routinely roll out digital services that, for blind people, are the Internet equivalent of impassable stairs. Roughly 75,000 students at colleges and trade schools are visually impaired, according to Education Department figures. Barriers …
News release: “The Federal Reserve Board on Monday proposed two rules that would expand the coverage of consumer protection regulations to credit transactions and leases of higher dollar amounts. The proposed rules would amend Regulation Z (Truth in Lending) and Regulation M (Consumer Leasing) to implement a provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and …
25 Point Implementation Plan To Reform Federal Information Technology Management, Vivek Kundra U.S. Chief Information Officer, December 9, 2010 “Information technology should enable government to better serve the American people. But despite spending more than $600 billion on information technology over the past decade, the Federal Government has achieved little of the productivity improvements that …
Follow up to postings on Wikileaks, news of a Hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks, Thursday 12/16/2010. Pew Research Center: Public Sees WikiLeaks as Harmful
News release: “An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will give people access to the worlds disappearing spoken traditions. The website has been developed by researchers at the World Oral Literature Project, based at the University of Cambridge, and will be …
News release: “Exposure to tobacco smoke even occasional smoking or secondhand smoke causes immediate damage to your body that can lead to serious illness or death, according to a report released today by U.S. Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin. The comprehensive scientific report – Benjamins first Surgeon Generals report and the 30th tobacco-related …
