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Reading Device Kindles a Controversy
By Deborah Kendrick
But Kindle 2 also has on board a text-to-speech
capability, making it possible for those unable to read the screen visually to
hear it read aloud in a computerized male or female voice
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E-Publisher Making Accessibility Universal
By John M. Williams. 
Christopher Stephen is an Australian pioneer in
electronic publishing. To help his sister, who has multiple sclerosis, maintain
her joy of reading, he was motivated to expand the services that electronic
publishing offers to people with disabilities. His company’s Web site is
www.readhowyouwant.com, abbreviated as RHYW. He was interviewed by John M. Williams.
Full story on Christopher
Stephen
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Disability Advocate Ellis Keeps Taking Next
Step Forward
By Kathi Wolfe 
Retirement, even semi-retirement, isn’t on the radar
screen for Ellis, age 75. After more than 40 years of engagement in the
fore-front of grass-roots advocacy at the local, state and national level, he
continues to work full-speed ahead for social change for people with
disabilities and others who our society devalues.
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on Ethan Ellis
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HIV-Positive Poet Not Hiding from Past Now
By Amy Halloran
Jack Wiler works in pest control in New York City, lives
in New Jersey, and reads poetry in all kinds of places. He reads his work at
high schools, festivals and conferences, and in bars, the site of poetry’s
late 20th-century revival, when open mic nights, spoken word and
slam poetry breathed new life into the form.
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Poet
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Obama Aides Seen as Foes of Community Care
By Mike Ervin
President Barack Obama's inner Washington circle is full
of Chicagoans. Two in particular -- Arne Duncan and David Axelrod -- sounded
alarm bells among Chicago disability activists when their appointments were
recently announced.
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on Obama Aides
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Web Accessibility is Up to All of Us
By William Loughborough
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) of the World Wide
Web Consortium (W3C) has made it its business to make that resource accessible
and able to provide equal access and opportunity to people of all abilities.
Full story on Web
Accessibility
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Obituary
Martha Mason
 Remembered
She had bested polio, once a pandemic disease, over 60
years of her lifetime after being told she wouldn't live to her teen years
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Mason
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Survey Shows Good Access is Good
Business
By Cindy Powell
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ILCHV's 15 th Annual Dessert Spectacular
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NCIL: letter from Exec Director.
John A. Lancaster, Executive Director
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Lancaster
What CILs and SILCs need to know about the
American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
For NCIL's ARRA Funding
NCIL Disability Policy Summit, Congressional
Briefing and Hill Visits
For NCIL's
Disability Summit
NCIL Annual Conference 2009 Believe: We Are Better
Reenergize, Reorganize, Reauthorize!
June 5-8, 2009, Grand Hyatt
Washington
NCIL Registration click
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 This Day In Disability History |
| Employment Status for Persons with Disabilities
Released |
| For Those with Mental Illness,
Access to Care Part of Cure |
| College Students with Disabilities
Should Learn Their History |
| We are changing the
Calendar of Events |
| Key Articles from back issues |
| Social Security
keeps an estimated 40 percent of Americans out of poverty |
New Digital TV
Era About to Dawn Beginning Updated to June 12th, 2009, over-the-air
-analog broadcast television will end in the United States
Many
local TV stations to go ahead with DTV switch |
| Aging with Cerebral
Palsy: Many Questions, Few Answers |
| U.S. Treasury Loses
Fight over Accessible Currency |
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