Visitors to the NCA booth at the NRPA Congress last week got the chance to drop their business card in the fish bowl and win NCA swag including a complimentary registration to an upcoming NCA training course.  Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for stopping by the NCA booth.

Complimentary Registration for a 2013 NCA Training Course

Kelly Cheeseman, Pima County (AZ) Natural Resources, Parks and Recreation

NCA Insulated Cooler Backpack

Geoge Page, Valdosta Lowndes County (GA) Parks & Recreation Authority

Sarah Sandquist, City of Redmond (WA) Parks & Recreation

NCA Journals

Kevin Finnegan, Naperville (IL) Park District

Linda McVicker, Bakersfield (CA) Recreation & Parks

Craig Edmonston, University of Arkansas

Netflix Inc. and the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) have submitted a joint Consent Decree to a federal court ensuring closed captions in 100% of Netflix streaming content within two years.  The agreement indicates the parties' mutual intent to increase access for people who are deaf and hard of hearing to movies and television streamed on the Internet. Netflix began its closed-captioning program in 2010. Netflix has increased captioning for 90% of the hours viewed but is now committed to focusing on covering all titles by captioning 100% of all content by 2014. Captions can be displayed on a majority of the more than 1,000 devices on which the service is available.  Press release >

Reprinted from the Disability Scoop
The only fully-accessible home ever designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright is among the latest properties to be named to the National Register of Historic Places.  The U.S. Department of the Interior recently added the Laurent House in Rockford, Ill. to its list of historic places.  The home was designed by Wright in 1949 for Kenneth Laurent, who was paralyzed while serving in World War II. In addition to switches, built-in desks and other features and furnishings designed to accommodate an individual using a wheelchair, Wright crafted the house so that it's beauty could be appreciated from a seated position.  Read more >

While major federal disability rights legislation has mandated disabled access for more than 30 years, people with disabilities are still experiencing significant physical and programmatic barriers at recreation facilities and parks, denied the equal opportunity to participate and benefit comparative to people without disabilities. Most public park and recreation agencies want to comply with the law, unfortunately though, there is a lack of understanding as to how to incorporate the federal requirements into the daily operation of the organization. For the public parks and recreation agency, a comprehensive accessibility management program which values citizens with disabilities while advancing its mission of leisure for healthy lifestyles is essential to creating diverse and integrated communities where people with disabilities are fully included in all aspects of community life. For any accessibility management program to be successful, the organization must embrace some of the core principles and practices that management theorists have identified and linked to the most effective companies and public agencies of the 20th and 21st centuries: committed business purpose and mission, shared values, involvement in the process, comprehensive planning, continuous evaluation, and flexibility to adapt to an ever changing marketplace.  Read more >