[Blindtlk] Please help if you can

Thu Jan 21 22:28:09 UTC 2016

Hi Sandra,

Thank you for this information.  It isn't given on the website.  At first nothing was happening when I pressed the Submit button and my information kept staying in the edit boxes.  Finally the boxes cleared.  I looked for my information on the list, but wasn't seeing it.   I'll keep looking for the confirmation email.  Thanks again.

Annely
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On Thu, 1/21/16, S L Johnson via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Please help if you can
 To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
 Cc: "S L Johnson" <SLJohnson25 at comcast.net>
 Date: Thursday, January 21, 2016, 4:53 PM

 Cindy:

 You will not see your
 signature right away.  They send you an email that 
 requires your response in order to verify your
 signature.  Just click on the 
 link and the
 site will tell you Thank You for signing.

 Sandra

 -----Original Message----- 
 From: Cindy Ray via blindtlk
 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:59 PM
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 Cc: Cindy Ray
 Subject: Re:
 [Blindtlk] Please help if you can

 Oh, that wasn't my problem. I couldn't
 find the place to enter my n ame. I
 didn't see my signature either
 afterwards.
 Cindy

 -----Original Message-----
 From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
 On Behalf Of Heather
 Field via blindtlk
 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:54 PM
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 Cc: Heather Field <missheather at comcast.net>
 Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Please help if you
 can

 Hello Cindy,
 Here is the link. it was appearing on two lines
 in the e-mail which Gary
 sent so it was an
 incomplete link.

 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/direct-us-department-justice-promp
 tly-release-ada-internet-regulations
 Warmly,
 Heather

 -----Original
 Message-----
 From: Cindy Ray via blindtlk
 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:49 PM
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 Cc: Cindy Ray
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 It is not that link for sure. I will try to see
 if I can send it again if I
 can ever get the
 sign to sign.
 Cindy

 -----Original Message-----
 From: blindtlk [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
 On Behalf Of Julie J.
 via blindtlk
 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 1:20 PM
 To: gwunder at earthlink.net;
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 Cc: Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com>
 Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Please help if you
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 I got a 404 page not
 found.  Not sure what to try next.

 Julie
 Courage to Dare: A Blind
 Woman's Quest to Train her Own Guide Dog is now
 available! Get the book here:
 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QXZSMOC
 -----Original Message-----
 From: Gary Wunder via blindtlk
 Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:21 PM
 To: Warn,Grace
 Cc: Gary
 Wunder
 Subject: [Blindtlk] Please help if
 you can

 Dear family,
 friends, and colleagues:

 I don't
 usually write to everyone in my address book, but I have an
 urgent
 issue I would like you to think about
 supporting. Today, true access to
 society
 means access to the internet, and although many of us think
 that the
 Americans With Disabilities Act has
 leveled the playing field for blind
 people,
 it was passed before the Internet was a factor. Although it
 speaks
 clearly to public access, it is
 mostly talking about physical structures.
 There is no question that a store has to let
 blind people in to shop. There
 is no
 question that a restaurant must allow someone with a cane or
 a guide
 dog into their establishment and
 must serve them. But the question that must
 be resolved is whether public places means
 physical locations or any
 location where the
 public is invited and encouraged to spend money. I
 contend that the internet is just such a place
 and that Amazon's online
 presence is no
 different from Barnes & Noble's store.

 Although the courts have issued conflicting
 opinions on this, most rulings
 have said
 that the Americans With Disabilities Act would most
 certainly have
 included the internet had it
 been passed only three years later. The Justice
 Department agrees, and so does the Congress.
 The problem is that the Justice
 Department
 has not implemented the amendments to the Americans With
 Disabilities Act that was passed by the
 Congress by issuing regulations
 necessary
 for its enforcement. The Obama administration now says that
 it
 plans to wait until 2018 to issue such
 regulations. Of course, there will be
 no
 Obama administration in 2018, and every delay makes it
 easier for the
 next president to authorize
 another delay.

 If you believe that it is
 important for me to be able to check in at an
 airport and to check out at a grocery store
 given that these both are
 requiring
 interaction with electronic devices, please look at the
 petition
 that I am including here, and if
 you feel as I do, please sign it. Some
 barriers that I face simply cannot be removed.
 I cannot enjoy seeing the
 stars in the sky
 or appreciate the beautiful colors that emerge in spring,
 but with technology that we have readily
 available today, there is no reason
 that I
 can't use a computer to read about these. The
 technological barriers
 I face are not so
 much due to blindness as they are the unwillingness of
 people to realize that there should be
 nonvisual ways of accessing much of
 what the
 world has to offer. Thank you for helping me if you feel as
 I do.
 Here is the link:

 https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/direct-us-department-justice-promp
 tly-release-ada-internet-regulations

 Gary Wunder,
 President

 National
 Federation of the Blind of Missouri

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