The eighth plenary meeting of INCITS/V2 will meet on Thursday and Friday, June 27 and 28, 2002, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (CT) at the Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Hotel , Minneapolis, Minnesota in Lake Superior Room A, on the 5th floor..
The Committee invites you to participate in its continuing work on standards for an Alternative Interface Access Protocol (AIAP). This communication protocol would complement and build on industry activity in home networking, wireless networking, and metadata registries for discovery and interoperation of intelligent devices. The aim is to make it easy to fulfill the alternate interface connection needs of people with disabilities that is called for in recent government regulations. The Alternative Interface Access Protocol and related standards will ensure IT products are more accommodating of the needs and preferences of the consumer by allowing for alternative interfaces. While addressing the special needs of people with disabilities, the option to change interfaces will have a broader market application.
Anyone interested in contributing to the future directions in the marriage of assistive technology and information technology may find this 2 day working meeting of interest. V2 is particularly seeking individuals experienced with work and home task analysis, and with folks with experience in the application of information technology to supporting people with disabilities in all kinds of environments.
For more information on the INCITS/V2 committee, please visit our Website at http://www.incits.org/tc_home/v2.htm . For information on membership in INCITS/V2, contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV . For information on INCITS membership, contact Kate McMillan (phone: 202-626-5742 or email: kmcmillan@itic.org ).
For information about this meeting, the venue, and to register see the INCITS V2 meeting Website at: http://www.nist.gov/ncits/ . If you have a disability, any special needs, accommodations or requirements, please call 919-681-9983 by June 17, 2002. If you have special needs (such as an accommodation request due to a disability) and are attending the RESNA Conference, please pre-register, requesting an "Accessibility Packet" using the RESNA Conference registration form ( http://www.resna.org/conferences/2002/regform.htm ) before May 27, 2002 .
Requests to participate by teleconference will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV by June 17, 2002, for information on teleconference availability.
For the convenience of those attending INCITS/V2, this meeting is collocated with the RESNA "25th International Conference on Technology & Disability: Research, Design, Practice" being held in Minneapolis, Minnesota on June 27 to July 1, 2002. See http://www.resna.org/conferences/ for more information on the RESNA conference. NOTE: the early registration discount ends on May 27, 2002. Note that since the V2 Technical Committee convenes on Thursday and Friday, June 27 and 28, the days reserved for the preconference tutorials, you will not miss any of the Conference, which starts on Saturday, June 29 and continues through Monday, July 1.
Please make sure you register for these meetings separately, (see http://www.nist.gov/ncits/ to register for INCITS/V2 and http://www.resna.org/conferences/2002/regform.htm to register for the RESNA conference).
Attached is a draft agenda for the meeting (Ref: V2/02-0022). Suggestions for additions and changes are welcome. Contact INFO-V2@NIST.GOV .
V2 members are reminded to check the private V2 master list of open and closed issues ( http://www.itl.nist.gov/twiki/bin/view/NCITSV2/MasterListOfOpenAndClosedIssues ) and provide comments.
Bill LaPlant
Chair, INCITS V2,
Information Technology Access Interfaces
Standards Development Technical Committee
of the InterNational Committee for
Information Technology
Standards
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