Hi

First, a reminder about tomorrow's meeting of the U.S. Access Board at 1:00 to 2:30pm EST (please note, this is the correct time).

Here is the Evaluation form: https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7117247/Section-508-Best-Practices-Webinar-Series-11-29-2022 

Here are the slides for the presentation to review prior to tomorrow's meeting- You can download them at the following link (This is a temporary link, as the file was too big to attach to this email):

https://virginiansforsafetech.org/us-access-board-slides/

There is a great deal of information in these slides such as W3W standards (world wide web), infrastructure, 508, and architectural barriers. W3W accessibility standards have to do with the internet, but if the only way we can access that internet in a building is via wireless that is a problem. 508 is accessible standards- everything from RF-EMF, technical details of all forms of EMF reviewed here.

Please note: questions ahead of time have already been closed. You can submit them live only at this time.

Finally, on April 25, 2022, the Biden administration moved to ban the sale of incandescent bulbs in the USA (45 lumens per watt or less). Someone in a Virginia Safe Technology Facebook Group has created a petition to express the discontent with our ability to choose how we light our spaces (and being forced to use LEDs). We thought we'd pass this along:

https://www.change.org/p/incandescent-bulbs-reversing-the-upcoming-ban?utm_content=cl_sharecopy_33354324_en-US%3A4&recruiter=90440693&recruited_by_id=56d3eec0-ca49-11e3-a53a-dfd2c2ee1ed9&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&share_bandit_exp=initial-33354324-en-US