Strategic Partners Program

NCAM’s Strategic Partners program has for its customers such industry leaders as Adobe, Apple, CDC, Yahoo! and Verizon, among others, and advises in such areas as assistive and accessible technology, emerging media and technologies, industry trends, legislative and regulatory environments, and cross-disability consumer attitudes and concerns. With our help, these companies have accomplished or are working toward their goals of providing more accessible products and services for their customers. Read more about what our partners have to say about working with NCAM.

NCAM applies the expertise gathered from past and present research projects to assist our strategic partners, using techniques developed for providing access to a multitude of challenging technologies across all media and platforms.

Beyond Compliance: Influencing Technology, Standards and Policies

Nothing is more essential to positively shaping the future than to be "at the table" while standards and policies are being developed. NCAM participates in policy and standards-setting activities across a broad range of media-related areas, and has served as a technical resource to both industry and government on serving the entire population through:

• analog and digital television
• Web-based media
• theatrical film and digital cinema
• home media centers
• emergency communications
• mobile media
• DVDs
• online learning software and platforms
• e-books
• effective navigation and user interfaces

NCAM has contributed substantially to standards, guidelines and policies from:

• World Wide Web Consortium
• Federal Access Board (Section 508 guidelines)
• State Agencies
• Federal Communications Commission
• Advanced Television Systems Committee
• Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
• Consumer Electronics Association
• IMS Global Learning Consortium

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