Dakota Center for Independent Living

Dakota Center for Independent Living

August 2014

Movie Theaters Will Soon Be Required to Provide Closed Captioning & Audio Descriptions on All Movies

On July 23, the Attorney General signed the Department’s Notice of Proposed Rule-making (NPRM). This proposal will be an amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act title III regulation to provide closed movie captioning and audio description to give people with hearing and vision impairments access to movies. What is closed captioning and audio description? […]

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The Impact of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act on Centers for Independent Living and People with Disabilities

President Obama signed the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) on July 22, 2014. What does this mean? It reauthorizes programs that had previously been authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, as well as programs under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. So how does this legislation affect us? Currently, people with disabilities have

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