[Fopbc] Fwd: Comments Urgently Needed - ADA Accessibility Guidelines TIME SENSITIVE

[Lenora Marten]

Good Afternoon,

Please call or e-mail the access board concerning this very
important matter. Issues like these affect our children.
They have the right to accessability!
Please make your voice heard! Deadline is midnight June 21.
The new proposed ADA ammendments will NOT require
electronic kiosks to be accessible!

As Curtis states -
Your message does not need to  be very long.  It
just needs to make the point that you want the Board to include
accessibility to information kiosks and drive-up only  self-service machines
in amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.

Thank you!





Lenora J. Marten, President 
Florida Organization of Parents of Blind Children
NFB-Jacksonville Chapter Secretary 
Chairperson, FSDB/PAC
FOPBC at aol.com 
904-777-5976 / 904-229-9554

www.nfbflorida.org/parents
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Greetings and felicitations:

I am writing to ask for your  help to influence the U.S. Access Board as it
considers proposed  amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.  In
particular, the  Access Board is proposing to deal with access to
self-service machines  "used for ticketing, check-in or check-out, seat
selection, boarding  passes, or ordering food in restaurants and cafeterias
(220.2)."

In  addition to explicitly excluding drive-up only self-service machines,
the  proposed amendments will not require electronic information kiosks to
be  accessible.

If you would like to help, please call or email the Access  Board before
midnight Monday, June 21, with a message saying that the ADA Accessibility
guidelines need to include information kiosks as well as  drive-up only
self-service machines.  Your message does not need to  be very long.  It
just needs to make the point that you want the Board to include
accessibility to information kiosks and drive-up only  self-service machines
in amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.

You can call and leave a voice mail or send an email to Tim  Creagan, the
Access Board staff member who is taking comments on the  proposed rule
modifications.  The number to call is 202-272-0016, and  Tim Creagan's email
address is creagan at access-board.gov.

For any of  you who care to conduct extensive research into this issue, the
proposed  rule changes can be found at this  link:

http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/refresh/draft-rule.htm

Whatever  you do, it needs to be done by midnight, Monday, June 21.

Thank  you.

Yours sincerely

Curtis Chong, Chairman
Committee on  Research and Development
National Federation of the Blind



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