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 John G

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Date:

 Mon, Aug 18, 2008 8:42:31 am

Notice the very conspicuous absence of FS from that list?
At 13:23 18/08/2008, you wrote:

WAKEFIELD, Mass. — August 4, 2008 — The
Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), a

coalition of leading information and assistive
technology companies dedicated to enabling

developers to more easily create accessible
software, hardware and Web products, welcomes

the addition of two new steering committee
members: Doug Geoffray of GW Micro and Richard Schwerdtfeger of IBM.

The five-member Steering Committee guides the

AIA in its mission to improve the lives of
people who can benefit from accessibility

technologies. The AIA accomplishes this by
encouraging the enhancement of current

technologies, creating new technologies, and
promoting the implementation of APIs and

specifications across platforms and the accessibility industry.

"We are very pleased to have Doug and Rich join
the AIA leadership team. They both have a

pragmatic understanding of the technical and
business challenges facing the accessibility

industry today, and have a long history of
working across boundaries to advance the state

of the art in accessibility," said Rob Sinclair,
Chair of the Steering Committee and director of

the Accessibility Business Unit at Microsoft.
"Their technical expertise and long-standing

relationships with members of the AIA make them
highly valued additions to our Steering

Committee. We look forward to working with them in this new capacity."

Richard Schwerdtfeger is a Distinguished
Engineer, the IBM Software Group Accessibility

Strategist and Architect, Chair of the IBM
Accessibility Architecture Review Board, and a

Master Inventor. His responsibilities include
guiding the overall accessibility architecture

and strategy for IBM Software Group and he
participates in numerous W3C standards efforts

including HTML, WAI Protocols and Formats, and
Ubiquitous Web Applications. He chairs the W3C

WAI-ARIA subcommittee accessibility effort for
Web 2.0 applications as well as OASIS and IMS

GLC Access for All accessibility standards efforts.

Doug Geoffray is co-owner of GW Micro, Inc. and
leads the software development and product

support groups. Geoffray has been developing
assistive technology for more than 25 years. He

currently oversees a team at GW Micro that
focuses mainly on Window-Eyes, a leader in Windows screen readers.

About the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA)

Initiated by the accessibility industry, the AIA

is a group of leading Information Technology
(IT) and Assistive Technology (AT) companies,

content providers, and other key engineering
organizations, working to collaborate on the

creation of solutions to long-standing
compatibility problems that hinder the

development of solutions for people with
disabilities. Since its founding in 2007, AIA

members have worked together to develop
accessible technology for customers with

disabilities. Founding members of AIA include
Adobe Systems, BayFirst Solutions LLC,

Microsoft, Novell Inc., Claro Software Ltd.,
Dolphin Computer Access, GW Micro, Inc.,

HiSoftware Inc., Madentec Inc., Texthelp Systems
Inc. and QualiLife. More information about the

AIA can be found at http://www.AccessInteropAlliance.org.

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