and joanna fraguli played a very important role on behalf of the mayor's office on disability because she was embedded in the joint information senterra long with our interpreter, our american sign language interpreter jennifer mantle who worked with the public information officers to make sure that effective communication that would reach really the entire community was a big part of how the information officers would plan their proceedings. they helped the joint information center create very simple messages that could be easily understood by all of us. i think my best example that joanna shared with us is that they started to give an evacuation out -- warning that said if you live at leavenworth or if you live west of this block and you need to travel four blocks southwesterly to get out of the inundation zone, really kind of complicated instructions. and between jennifer and joanna they were able to come up with a message that says, go five blocks away from the water. just to make it clear and simple. so, having american sign language and the joint information center is just part

years actually organized the anniversary celebration here at city hall and our deputy director joanna fragulione of the wonderful ones, too. i remember seeing paul at our last one and it was just such a, you know, a precious moment to have been able to hear paul speak. so -- >> yes, it was on youtube. it's beautiful. >> it really is. it's another thing i encourage people, you know, to search and to listen to. so, we're delighted that you're carrying on the legacy out at san francisco state. it's a hotbed of activism out there and we're just happy to have you as a partner. >> thank you, thank you. >> one more comment. >> the chair again, this is joanna fraguli. and i have a question for you. i know that the 504 is an important local legacy that we will never live down, right? i'm wondering if you are going to include in your exhibit other things that led to the a-d-a signing, like the capital parole. the capital parole is one of those forms of activism that gets such little play, and yet it was started with a previous director, executive director of the independent living center in berkeley. >

but at this time i wanted to turn things over to the deputy director for programmatic access joanna fraguli for a quick announcement. >> good afternoon, councilmembers. as some of you may know, i have served 24 city departments and [speaker not understood] we're going to go over some of the a-d-a training that i present to city departments. this time around we launched an a-d-a training coordinators academy which is a series of four two-hour long individually organized sessions that are open to our a-d-a coordinators and they address some of the most common a-d-a questions and concerns. if you remember, each city department or most of the city departments have a designated a-d-a coordinator who interacts with our office directly and also our liaison when we have complaints or issues or training questions that come up with very specific departments. now, really quickly i just wanted to mention the four sessions that we have slated. the first one took place already on march 20th and it was an introduction to overall jenna. d.a. requirements, a little bit about the history, and gave a good sor

. >> through the chair, this is joanna fraguli with the mayor's office on disability. i have a question he and three suggestions. so, the first question is about the very exciting portal/database and i would like to ask whether you are taking into consideration not just language access for people who are automatically excluded from the digital divide, but also individuals who are needing electronic accessibility. people using assistive technology, screen leaders, in other words, is the database going to be 508 compliant? or have the item entered in it with the developers [speaker not understood]? >> we haven't discussed it with a developer yet as we haven't selected a developer. though are excellent suggestions. it would be great to work with your office to come up with language that you might have used so that we can incorporate those appropriate technology questions as they respond. so, we'd be happy to put that. we haven't finalized that -- [multiple voices] >> i would like you to work closely with my office on the [speaker not understood] of the database, and also