<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
h3
{mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 3 Char";
margin-top:0in;
margin-right:0in;
margin-bottom:0in;
margin-left:.25in;
line-height:115%;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;
font-weight:normal;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.Heading3Char
{mso-style-name:"Heading 3 Char";
mso-style-priority:9;
mso-style-link:"Heading 3";
font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><h3><a name="_Hlk125462340"><b>2023 Washington Seminar—NEXT WEEK!:</b></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>We are less than one week away from the Great Gathering-In and the official start of the 2023 Washington Seminar, and I can’t wait to have hundreds of blind Americans advocating for our rights on Capitol Hill. But before you get to Washington next week, make sure you prepare by visiting nfb.org/Washington-Seminar to study the fact sheets for our three issues: the Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act, the Medical Device Nonvisual Accessibility Act, and the Blind Americans Return to Work Act. The fact sheets are available in four different and accessible formats: HTML, Word, BRF, and audio. On the Washington Seminar page, you can also find the full agenda for next week’s activities, and two sample mock meeting videos that might give your ideas on how to present our legislative priorities to your members of Congress. And, as if all of that wasn’t enough, we plan to have brief descriptions of the US Capitol Complex and all six of the Congressional Office Buildings up on the </span></span><a href="nfb.org/washington-seminar"><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Washington Seminar page</span></span><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'></span></a><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> in the next few days. </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>For those not able to attend in person, the Zoom ID is 942 8189 3953.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style='mso-bookmark:_Hlk125462340'></span><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In addition, please don’t forget our Massachusetts meeting Thursday at 7PM. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Shara Winton<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>President, National Federation of the Blind of Massachusetts<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>617-600-8130<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="nfbma.org">Visit NFB MA Website for more information</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="nfb.org">Visit the NFB website for more info</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.facebook.com/National-Federation-of-the-Blind-of-Massachusetts-1593379944322253">Visit us on Facebook</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt;background:white'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>“</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#01893E'>You can live the life you want; blindness is not what holds you back.</span><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>”</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>