- From: jeffrey Pledger <jpledger@pop.mindspring.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:01:58 -0500
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Here is hoping that I am getting this email out with enough time for everyone to have an opportunity to join in and participate in the webcast. Please remember that you need to have the Real G2 version 8 basic or plus player installed on your computer in order to view the webcast. I would also appreciate it if this message could be cross posted onto other list serves where it hasn't been viewed yet. Thank you in advance and I look forward to many of you participating in tomorrow's event. Jeffrey Pledger President, AbleTV.net For Immediate Release Tuesday, March 20, 2001 AbleTV.net to Simulcast John Hockenberry Keynote live Global participation expected in Accessible Interactive Webcast Wednesday, March 21, 2001 @ 7:25 AM PST at http://www.abletv.net on the TVWorldwide.com network Los Angeles, CA - AbleTV.net, the premier web-based TV channel for people with disabilities on the TVWorldwide.com network announced today that it plans to simulcast a keynote speech given by John Hockenberry. The keynote will be simulcast to the worlds largest "Technology and Persons with Disabilities" conference being held in Los Angeles and FOSE, the largest government Information TTechnology (IT) conference and showcase in the world taking place in Washington DC. The webcast will feature AbleTV.net's captioned video streaming or "Webcapting" process to assist online participants with disabilities who will have the opportunity to either watch just the video or watch the video and participate in online chat. Hockenberry, a two-time Peabody Award winner and "Dateline NBC" correspondent will address an audience of 3,000 people gathered at the Airport Hilton in Los Angeles and 20,000 attendees of FOSE. Two-hundred Assistive Technology (AT) vendors are participating in the CSUN conference. Three-hundred fifty Telecommunications and Information Technology IT vendors are participating in FOSE. "This could not be a better time to be a professional in the field of disability and Assistive Technology," said Bud Riser, Director, The Center on Disabilities at California State University, Northridge and host of CSUN's annual conference. Riser further stated, "Our conference was designed to increase awareness on the part of the general public regarding the basis principles of Assistive Technology, legislation and the proliferation of new low-cost consumer and professional technologies." The webcast will be directed by Jeff Pledger, President of AbleTV.net, who lost his sight 17 years ago due to illness. "We are pleased to provide captioned streaming for this live event," remarked Pledger. "This accessible webcast is just another example of how AbleTV.net is assisting not only people with disabilities, but all people to have access to important events. We are very excited about the opportunity to simulcast this event between CSUN and FOSE." The program will be archived with the captioning for later viewing after the webcast at http://www.abletv.net. Participants should have the free Real Player installed prior to the event. About TVWorldwide.com and AbleTV.net In addition to being a video streaming service provider, The TVWorldwide.com is building a network of community-based Internet TV channels, each underwritten by a strategic partner, "aimcasting" to targeted B2B and special interest audiences worldwide. TVWorldwide.com has worked with one of its first aimcast channels, AbleTV.net, to pioneer live and archived video streaming with closed captioning and audio description to aid web site accessibility for the disabled. With this advance, AbleTV.net received its charter sponsorship from Microsoft Corporation. TVWorldwide.com received first round financing from PSINet Ventures, Ltd., the wholly-owned corporate unit of PSINet, Inc. (Nasdaq:PSIX) Contacts: TV WorldWide.com, Inc. info@tvworldwide.com http://www.tvworldwide.com (703) 961-9250 Jeff Pledger AbleTV, Inc. jpledger@abletv.net http://www.abletv.net (301) 890-5944 - pic05195.pcx
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