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		<title>For the Deaf, Captioned Tours Wherever You Roam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Picture this: You fly off to Rome, head to the Coliseum and, using your iPhone, play a video that guides you around the ancient arena where gladiators and lions once roamed. Later, walk across Piazza del Colosseo to the Roman Forum and view a video tour of the sprawling Forum ruins, taking in what was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hilton Reaches Deal with Disabled Guests</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a groundbreaking settlement, the Department of Justice and Hilton Worldwide negotiated a far-reaching agreement to bring approximately 900 Hilton-branded hotels across the United States into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The deal requires all Hilton Worldwide-owned and joint-venture hotels to modify their online reservation systems to let customers with disabilities select and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iceland&#8217;s &#8220;Magga&#8221; Shines as First Deaf Parliament Member</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 09:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sigurlín Margrét Sigurðardóttir, the first deaf person to serve in Iceland's Parliament, talks about her efforts to recognize Icelandic Sign Language and the challenges of using interpreters at work.]]></description>
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		<title>A Steering Wheel With Ideas Of Its Own</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/10/14/a-steering-wheel-with-ideas-of-its-own/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dramatic increase in the usage of GPS navigation devices among automobile drivers in the U.S. has been nothing short of amazing. Only a few years ago, drivers often pulled over on the roadside, asked passersby for directions, consulted faded and dog-eared AAA maps, and sometimes squinted at hard-to-read signs at night. Today, a driver [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Content Accessibility Law Needs More Brawn</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/10/05/web-content-accessibility-law-needs-more-brawn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Oct 2010 12:37:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After passing in the Senate last week, the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, which will improve access to mobile content for the deaf and blind communities, will soon become law. This means deaf consumers can now watch closed-captioned shows and movies on the Web on their PC or mobile devices. Before, closed-captions were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Walk Through SUNY&#8217;s Assistive Tech Expo</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/05/17/a-walk-through-sunys-assistive-tech-expo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 15:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday, May 15, the State University of New York in Orange County (SUNY Orange) hosted its first annual Hudson Valley Assistive Technology Expo. Over 60 exhibits and vendors advertised their services and products. Headlining the expo was a keynote speech by Dr. Nancy Sulla of IDECORP (an expert on Universal Design for Learning), special screenings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Movie Captioning App To Be Shelved?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 09:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, I wrote here on abledbody.com about a new captioning application for the iPhone that lets deaf and hard-of-hearing moviegoers follow the dialogue of almost any movie in any movie theater in the nation. Subtitles, as this app is called, was developed by Dan Walker, who did not realize that it would greatly benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deaf Entertainers Documentary Hits All the Right Notes</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/04/14/deaf-entertainers-documentary-hits-all-the-right-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hilari Scarl’s See What I’m Saying is an exciting, funny, emotional and ultimately worthy addition to the rich compendium of films chronicling the deaf experience. Providing its own unique spin on the deaf film genre, the documentary explores the desire to strike it big on the stage from the perspective of a drummer, actor, comic and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone App Delivers Movie Captions On the Go</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/03/26/iphone-app-delivers-movie-captions-on-the-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 13:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For four years, I have lived within three blocks of two major movie theaters on the Upper East Side in Manhattan, yet, as a deaf person, I have never gone to a movie in these theaters because they do not use captioning systems. Consequently, my wife and I are forced to go across town to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan Brightman&#8217;s Disability Wonderland</title>
		<link>http://abledbody.com/2010/03/19/alan-brightmans-disability-wonderland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Janger</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a voracious reader of books, I read many different genres. However, I like straightforward plotlines, chapters with a clear structure and a logical progression of an idea or story. For those reasons, it took time for me to digest, figure out and ultimately, understand, DisabilityLand, Alan Brightman’s well-written book about people with disabilities. DisabilityLand [...]]]></description>
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