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From: Lawrence Carter-Long for the National Council on Disability
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Subject: Be a Part of Online Dialogue to Improve Social Media
Accessibility
Online Dialogue to Improve Accessibility of Social Media Enters
2nd Week Monday, March 17
The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment
Policy and the National Council on Disability’s virtual town
hall dialogue, “Advancing Accessibility and Inclusion in Social
Media – The User Experience,” which examines the
accessibility of social media for individuals with disabilities,
including jobseekers and workers begins its second week Monday,
March 24.
The online crowdsourcing event – which began Monday, March 17
and will conclude next Friday, April 4 – is part of a series of
social media accessibility online events that will be taking
place over the next three months.
“Social media is transforming how we engage with customers,
employees, jobseekers and other stakeholders," said Kathy
Martinez, assistant secretary of labor for disability employment
policy. "But when social media is inaccessible to people with
disabilities, it excludes a sizeable segment of our population.
This online dialogue will help us pinpoint social media
accessibility barriers, and discover new solutions for ensuring
these digital services can be used and optimized by everyone."
“The National Council on Disability is privileged to co-host
this online dialogue with ODEP as part of an ongoing
collaboration between federal agencies and private-sector
companies invested in the social media space,” said Janni
Lehrer-Stein, chairperson of access and integration for NCD.
“We anticipate that this online discussion will present new and
exciting opportunities for Americans with disabilities and people
around the world. Social media opens up a new marketplace of
ideas and access for everyone, including people with
disabilities, adding value and providing new opportunities
through inclusive engagement in the virtual world.”
The online dialogue will explore the value of social media in the
lives of people with disabilities, particularly around work, and
identify accessibility issues and creative approaches to making
social media tools more accessible and usable. Participants will
be able to discuss their social media experiences and submit
ideas, comments and vote on potential solutions. The information
gathered from this dialogue will then help NCD and ODEP further
collaborate with the social media industry to implement
solutions.
The national dialogue is being coordinated under ODEP’s
ePolicyWorks initiative.
To register, visit:
http://NCD-ODEP.SocialMedia.ePolicyWorks.org
Link to the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability
Employment Policy:
http://www.dol.gov/odep/
Link to ODEP’s ePolicyWorks initiative:
http://www.epolicyworks.org/
Link to the National Council on Disability:
http://www.ncd.gov/
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