[il-talk] Fwd: Article from Daily Herald News Section 2016 01 24

Tue Jan 26 15:19:51 UTC 2016

I, too, read that article and it was a very nice article. Very well done. I was surprised when I first heard it. I had to listen to it twice to be sure it was referring to NFB.

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> From: David Meyer via il-talk <il-talk at nfbnet.org> 
> Sent: January 26, 2016 9:30:51 AM
> To: 'NFB of Illinois Mailing List' <il-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fwd: Article from Daily Herald News Section 2016 01 24
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> Very nice comprehensive article. Glenn, this is a grate public relations
> peace for us.
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> From: il-talk [mailto:il-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Leslie Hamric
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> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 6:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [il-talk] Fwd: Article from Daily Herald News Section 2016 01
> 24
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> Hi Denise. Thank you for forwarding this. I'm sending the online version two
> because in the beginning there are some photo captions that Newsline
> apparently left out. 
> Leslie
> http://www.dailyherald.com/article/20160124/news/160129398/
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> > On Jan 26, 2016, at 4:46 AM, Denise R Avant via il-talk
> <il-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> > Denise R. Avant
> > President
> > National Federation of the Blind of Illinois Live the life you want 
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> >> From: NFB-NEWSLINE Online <nfbnewsline at nfb.org>
> >> Date: January 26, 2016 at 5:24:33 AM EST
> >> To: Denise Avant <davant1958 at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Article from Daily Herald News Section 2016 01 24
> >> 
> >> Constable: Suburban blind activists seek accessible Internet. Burt
> Constable . By Burt Constable bconstable at dailyherald,com related
> advertisement video Living blind, dispelling myths The Americans with
> Disabilities Act has been the law of the land since President George H.W.
> Bush signed it on July 26, 1990. More than a quarter century later, local
> activists with the National Federation of the Blind will travel to
> Washington, D.C., this week (weather permitting) with a quest to make the
> ADA the law of cyberspace. "The practical reality is that's not working,"
> says Glenn Moore, a 33-year-old Elgin resident who serves as secretary of
> the Illinois chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. While
> brick-and-mortar stores are built with adaptations to make them accessible
> to people with disabilities, "things online aren't as well-established,"
> Moore says. Using voice software that reads the words on a webpage, a blind
> person might be getting the information he needs, only to be stopped by
> something as simple as one of those Captcha boxes requiring that a human
> type a message shown on the screen, or a PDF file that doesn't include an
> audio file. "It depends on the website," says Leslie Hamric, 40, a
> Schaumburg woman who volunteers as president of a local at-large chapter of
> the NFB. Sometimes, even companies with accessible websites don't extend
> that technology to their apps, she adds. "There's still a lot of work that
> needs to be done," says Annette Grove, 76, a federal legislative director
> for the Illinois chapter, who has been on many lobbying trips to Congress.
> "The reality is some people simply cannot use some of the online tools. In a
> 2010 ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the ADA, President Obama
> announced that new website accessibility rules issued by the Department of
> Justice would be "the most important updates to the ADA since its original
> enactment," and scheduled the changes to be enacted by January 2012. That
> date later was extended until sometime in 2018. "We don't expect things to!
>   change overnight. We want it to be the beginning of a larger
> conversation," says Moore, who has gone to Washington on a couple of
> lobbying junkets. A graduate of Elgin Community College, Moore worked for
> seven years with the Salvation Army, operating social services for the
> charity's Carpentersville Service Center. Now he's taking online classes
> through the University of Missouri, working toward a business administration
> degree and an MBA. "For many blind people, getting a college degree is very
> important," Moore says, noting lobbyists will continue to pressure academic
> institutions to make every class accessible to people with disabilities. The
> group already has sponsors for bills pushing two other changes for people
> with disabilities. The Transitioning to Integrated and Meaningful Employment
> Act, known as TIME and presented in HR-188 , would ensure that blind workers
> are covered under minimum-wage laws. Current laws allow some employers to
> pay lower wages to people with disabilities. The Access to Air Travel for
> Service-Disabled Veterans bill, HR-2264 , would add veterans with
> disabilities to a program allowing military veterans to travel free on
> military aircrafts. The NFB lobbyists also are hoping for a change in
> international law through the adoption of the Marrakesh Treaty , which would
> eliminate some copyright infringements and allow for the sharing of millions
> of printed works to be distributed across borders in Braille, audio or
> digital formats. People with vision issues "continue to face a lot of
> discrimination in hiring and access," says Grove, who lives in downstate
> Belleville and travels often in her job conducting compliance audits for
> Goodwill International. "The ADA has been around since 1990, and 26 years
> later, 70 percent of blind people are still unemployed," notes Hamric, who
> has worked for Easter Seals and the Lighthouse social service agency that
> offers many programs for people with vision impairments. A graduate of the
> Eastman School of Music, Hamric, who, with her husband, Andy, has a 6-!
>  year-old son, Michael, teaches cello and also performs and sings with her
> church's musical groups. "Our motto is 'Live the life you want,'" Moore
> says. "We're working to make sure blind people can have full participation,
> inclusion and equality in society. 
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