Yes this appears to work with the accelerator, at least it does on my test board.
If you are unsure what the News Fader is, see my board at http://www.vhforums.com. Now I haven't upgraded it to 6.1 yet, but it's the same thing on the 6.05 board. I have it working on a 6.1 test board, but I am not providing access to that currently.
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