Uploaded to inforM April 21, 1995
Subject: Reminder: MEDIA ACCESS mailing list (captioning, 
audio description, etc.)
From: joeclark@hookup.net (Joe Clark)
Organization: HookUp Communication Corporation, Oakville, Ontario, CANADA

[Revised 95.3.29]

INTRODUCING THE MEDIA ACCESS LIST
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Now, at long last, there is an Internet mailing list dedicated to
closed-captioning, audio description, and other Media Access issues. The
Media Access list will entertain all manner of discussion related to those
topics, including:

 Reports of good-- and bad-- captioning (e.g., you can write in to report
some particularly skilful or inept captioning you saw, to report
captioning outrages, to discuss the merits of a captioning company's
style, and the like)
 Technology issues, including access to up-and-coming technologies like
CD-ROMs, virtual reality, computer games, etc.
 Nuts-and-bolts questions: How do I listen to Descriptive Video? Where do
I buy a caption decoder?

In short, anything you want to talk about on any topic related to making
media accessible to people with vision or hearing impairments is OK. Of
course, you don't have to be blind, visually-impaired, low-vision, deaf,
or hard-of-hearing to participate. The mailing list is unmoderated; no one
will censor what you say, though everyone has the right of reply.

HOW TO SUBSCRIBE
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Any electronic-mail account that can exchange mail with the Internet will
work. That includes the Internet per se, Bitnet, FidoNet, many FirstClass
systems, CompuServe, America Online, eWorld, Prodigy, and Genie, and
QuickMail, Microsoft Mail, CC:Mail, WordPerfect Office and other corporate
E-mail systems *as long as they are connected to the Internet in some
way*.

To subscribe, send a message containing the words

        subscribe access

(and no other words or characters) in the body of a message to
listmanager@hookup.net. (The subject line is ignored.)

To unsubscribe, send a message containing the words

        unsubscribe access

(and no other words or characters) in the body of a message to
listmanager@hookup.net.

To send a message to the list SO THAT EVERYONE CAN READ IT, mail your
message to

        access@hookup.net

NOTE THAT THE ADDRESSES FOR (UN)SUBSCRIBING AND POSTING TO THE LIST ARE
DIFFERENT!

If you want to receive the Media Access list as a digest-- a few long
messages a day containing a number of shorter messages instead of all the
shorter messages as separate items-- send the words

        on access digest

in the body of a message to listmanager@hookup.net. (If you want to turn
the digest feature off, send the words "on access nodigest" in the body of
a message to listmanager@hookup.net.)

TO REPORT PROBLEMS
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If there are any problems, report them to me at owner-access@hookup.net or
joeclark@hookup.net.

Sign up today!

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                                        Joe Clark
                                    joeclark@hookup.net
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