Full Committee Hearing The ADA and Entertainment Technologies: Improving Accessibility from the Movie Screen to Your Mobile Device

Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 Time: 02:30 PM Location: 430 Dirksen Senate Office Building

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Witnesses

Panel I

  1. Ms. Eve Hill
    Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights
    U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
    Washington, DC
  2. Ms. Karen Peltz Strauss
    Deputy Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
    Federal Communications Commission
    Washington, DC

Panel II

  1. Mr. John Fithian
    President and CEO
    National Association of Theatre Owners
    Washington, DC
  2. Ms. Betsy Beaumon
    Vice President and General Manager
    Literacy Program, The Benetech Initiative
    Palo Alto, CA
  3. Mr. Brian Charlson
    Chair, Information Access Committee
    American Council of the Blind
    Watertown, MA
  4. Mr. Andrew Phillips
    Policy Counsel
    Law & Advocacy Center, National Association of the Deaf
    Silver Spring, MD

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