[NFB-DB] Reminder please get your January 18 accommodations request in!

Thu Jan 9 00:11:02 UTC 2025

Hello, I will need the answers to the questions that the document that is a part of this email ask of everyone asking for interpreting, and more captioning. Please answer the questions reason this document exactly. In English please if possible.

In addition to the questions that the following document asked I need to have in writing proof that you are indeed a member of the division and that you are current.

Here is the exact wording of the policy as approved last November. Please disregard the word draft in this document. Because it has approved by the board of directors of the division and has been reviewed by the national office.

National Federation of the Blind Deafblind Division

Reasonable Accommodations Requests Procedure

The National Federation of the Blind and its divisions strive to grant every accommodation request possible. Please maximize our ability to grant such requests by observing the following policies:

1.        Reasonable accommodations requests are to be submitted a minimum of fifteen (15) calendar days before the event for which accommodations are being requested. 
2.        Requests must specify a need for ASL, CART, or another accommodation. Requests must also detail when, where, and for how long the accommodation is needed.
3.        The National Federation of the Blind Deafblind Division makes every effort to grant accommodation requests, including requests made on short notice and requests made while a meeting is actively taking place. With that in mind, please provide as much notice as possible so the division has the opportunity to hire interpreters and captioners as needed.
4.        Individuals who request accommodations within two weeks of a scheduled meeting will be emailed a copy of this document for their review.
5.        Interpreters and captioners are paid commensurate with the amount of time they worked. If an interpreter or captioner is hired, but no one who requested use of that interpreter or captioner has arrived within fifteen (15) minutes of the start of the meeting, the interpreter or captioner will be relieved of their duties and that service will not be provided.
6.        Individuals who repeatedly request and receive interpretation or captioning services, but fail to attend the relevant meetings will be asked not to plan to attend the meetings until their life circumstances are such that they can use the services as intended.
7.        Members subject to the above paragraph may contact the division president to request reinstatement of their accommodations.
8.        This policy will be posted to the division website, the division list-serve, and available upon request. Please direct any questions to nfbdbpresident at mmines.org <mailto:nfbdbpresident at mmines.org>.

Maurice A. Mines, President 

National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division 

Email: nfbdbpresident at mmines.org 

Website: www.nfb.org <http://www.nfbdeaf-blind.org> 

Live the life you want. 

The National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division, a proud division 

of the National Federation of the Blind, is a community of members and 

friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day 

we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.   

> On Jan 8, 2025, at 15:45 maximize, Ineko Gary via NFB-DB <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> GM hi, I will please need an interpreter for the meeting January 18 please and thank you.
> 
> I will make sure this meeting that the child or the little kids that I babysit. Has the TV turned down for the meeting time.
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> I did not know the TV was loud. I do apologize for that at our last meeting. I didn’t know so thank you for bringing it to my attention through the interpreter.
> 
> So I will make sure the kids will have the TV turned down and so they can put on the close caption so they won’t miss anything happening on the TV cause with me being blind I’m also deaf and cannot hear the TV or people when they talk or like voices or sound. I can only hear sound with hearing aids. So that’s why I wanted to say thank you for bringing it to my attention with the interpreter present.
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> Question when do the dues need to be paid by?
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> Sending love always
> Ineko Gary <000a3c36-dc55-4f7a-9b56-918174a59cae.heic><65664a4c-3c52-4d58-9276-65ec169dabf0.png><9bc49635-efa5-4daf-874e-bca7512b1d25.heic><a6f7bf9a-c546-4121-9620-44d95d4f0e2a.png>
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jan 8, 2025, at 12:12 AM, Maurice A. mines via NFB-DB <nfb-db at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> Good evening following up on the message that I wrote on Sunday. Please read that message carefully and please get your accommodations request in. If I don't get any accommodations requests that allow all the rules mentioned in the email it will just be those of us on the board the zoom managers and the call participants.
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>> If you have questions please ask me.
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>> Maurice A. Mines, President 
>> 
>> National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division 
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>> Email: nfbdbpresident at mmines.org 
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>> Website: www.nfb.org <http://www.nfbdeaf-blind.org> 
>> 
>> Live the life you want. 
>> 
>> The National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division, a proud division 
>> 
>> of the National Federation of the Blind, is a community of members and 
>> 
>> friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every day 
>> 
>> we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.   
>> 
>>  
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