508 Refresh to be published

Did you see the official announcement regarding the 508 Refresh?
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Regards,
Phill Jenkins, 
Senior Engineer & Business Development Executive
IBM Accessibility
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I have good news to share with you about the update of the Access Board?s 
Section 508 standards and Section 255 guidelines.  Yesterday, the Office 
of Management and Budget cleared our notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM); 
it will now be sent to the Federal Register for publication.  We will make 
the NPRM and supporting documents available on our website (
http://www.access-board.gov) on Wednesday, February 18. It should be 
published in the Federal Register shortly after that.
 
We will provide a 90 day public comment period and will hold two public 
hearings on March 5 and March 11. Here are the details for the public 
hearings:  
 
March 5, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (PT) 
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel
One Market Place
Mission Beach A & B (3rd floor)
San Diego, CA 92101
 
Note: This hearing will be held in conjunction with the CSUN Conference 
but persons wishing only to testify need not register for the conference.
 
March 11, 2015 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (ET)
U.S. Access Board Conference Room
1331 F Street, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20004
 
Witnesses can testify in person at the hearing in San Diego.  Witnesses 
can testify in person or by telephone at the hearing in Washington, DC.  
Copies of the rule will not be available at the hearings.  Call-in 
information and a communication access real-time translation (CART) web 
streaming link for the Washington, DC hearing will be posted before the 
hearing at http://www.access-board.gov/ictrefresh.
 
For information on pre-registering to testify, please contact Kathy 
Johnson at (202) 272?0041, (202) 272?0082 (TTY), or 
johnson@access-board.gov.
 
If you have questions about the rule once it is made public, please 
contact Tim Creagan at (202) 272-0016, (202) 272-0074 (TTY), or 
508@access-board.gov.
 
P.S. We will also offer a free webinar about the proposed rule on Tuesday, 
March 31 from 1:00 pm - 2:30pm (ET); you can sign up for the webinar at 
http://www.adaconferences.org/CIOC/
 
 
David M. Capozzi
Executive Director
U.S. Access Board
1331 F Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004-1111
 
202-272-0010 (direct dial)
202-272-0054 (IP TTY)
202-480-7149 (mobile)
 
capozzi@access-board.gov (e-mail)
www.access-board.gov (web site)
 
Visit our website and sign up for one of our free webinars.
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