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Subject: CONFERENCE: DESIGNING MORE ACCESSIBLE COMMUNICATION SERVICES
Keywords: Human Factors Issues and Answers;  Red Bank, NJ    6/22/90
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         Designing More Accessible Communication Services:
                  Human Factors Issues and Answers

                        Red Bank, New Jersey
                           June 22, 1990

          Sponsored by the Communications Technical Group
                              and the
             Special Interest Group on Medical Systems 
                   and the Functionally Impaired
                    of the Human Factors Society

This one  day workshop  will include  panels and  talks on the  other
"equal access" issue: How can access to communication and information
services  be  made  easily  available  to  all, not  only those  with
unimpaired hearing, speech, vision, and motor abilities?

The focus of  the workshop will be  the communication needs of  those
with  functional  impairments  and the  role of  new technologies  in
meeting  (or  missing)  those  needs.   The  agenda  will include  an
overview of  the scope  of the  need, a review  of the equipment  and
services  currently  available,  the  current  legal  and  regulatory
environment, presentations on current projects under development, and
a roundtable  on the  major accessibility  issues for user  interface
designers in the 1990s.

Seating will  be limited to  120.  Registration for  the day will  be
$60.  For more information or a registration form, contact:

    Bob Schumacher roo%nvuxr@bellcore.bellcore.com 201-758-2406