Day archives: June 24th, 2011

Google Apps Accessibility Evaluation Project

“In the summer of 2010, Peter Mosinskis from California State University Channel Islands assembled a team of approximately fifteen volunteers from seven different CSU campuses and one from the UC system to evaluate the accessibility of Google Apps. The team also recruited student volunteers and screen reader users to assist with the testing. Automated, manual, …

Subjects: Internet, Search Engines, Web Site Accessibility and Usability

GPO : Authenticity of Electronic Federal Government Publications

“The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released a new authentication white paper, Authenticity of Electronic Federal Government Publications, which describes GPO’s authentication program and latest activities to ensure its role as a trusted source for disseminating official and authentic Federal government publications to the public. GPO first defined its strategy for electronic content authentication …

Subjects: Government Documents

Google Posts About FTC's Formal Notification of Business Review

Follow up to posting, WSJ: FTC Plans to Serve Google With Subpoenas, from the Official Google Blog: “At Google, we’ve always focused on putting the user first. We aim to provide relevant answers as quickly as possible—and our product innovation and engineering talent have delivered results that users seem to like, in a world where …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research

CBO's 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook: Testimony Before the House Budget Committee

CBO’s 2011 Long-Term Budget Outlook: Statement of Douglas W. Elmendorf before the Committee on the Budget U.S. House of Representatives, June 23, 2011 “As the economy continues to recover and the policies adopted to counteract the recession phase out, budget deficits will probably decline markedly in the next few years. But the budget outlook, for …

Subjects: Congress

Lawmakers Seek Smarter National, Homeland Security Through Federal Agency Job Rotation

News release: “A bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators introduced bills in the House and Senate Thursday to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the federal government’s national and homeland security missions by encouraging the government-wide integration of Executive Branch employees working in those areas. The Interagency Personnel Rotation Act of 2011, S.1268 and H.2314, would …

Subjects: Legislation

Truth About Wireless Phones and the National Do-Not-Call List

FCC: “You may be one of many consumers who have received emails saying you’re about to be assaulted by unwanted telemarketing calls to your wireless phone. Rest assured that placing telemarketing calls to wireless phones is — and always has been — illegal in most cases. Why the Confusion? The confusion seems to stem from …

Subjects: E-Government, E-Mail, Government Documents, Privacy