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Scott, I would suggest getting in touch with <br><br>
John Berggren jberggren@nfb.org<br>
who is in charge of convention arrangements,<br>
and Ross Kirschner<br>
rkirschner@nfb.org<br>
who is the Zoom expert there.<br><br>
Dave<br><br>
At 07:53 PM 4/19/2020, Scott Davert via NFB-DB wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Heather.<br>
Sprint Ip-Relay still exists, and will continue to do so for the
foreseeable future. As for using IP-Relay on one of these Zoom meetings,
in theory at least, you could call into a Zoom meeting if a phone number
is listed. I'll warn you that you may have trouble keeping up, as would
the relay operator. I may contact national about another captioning
option for convention and possibly even these Zoom meetings, but I do not
know who to contact, and still need to see if this is something that can
be supported. It's been a rough 2020 for me personally, so although I
wanted to do this before, I've not had the energy to do so. Sorry I do
not have any immediate answers for you. For disclosure: I'm not on the
board, but am an NFBDB member. I work for Sprint Accessibility, among
other things.<br><br>
Scott<br><br>
<br>
Sent from my iPhone<br><br>
On Apr 19, 2020, at 5:14 PM, Maurice A. mines via NFB-DB
<<a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>>
wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Hello everyone, I’ve
been reading the two emails that have been written about the subject. I
think it is an important issue. I’m going to pass this message on to
Pres. I will study was the president of the deaf blind division. I’m
also on the same division board. I certainly cannot speak for the entire
board but I would ask that people on the list give us some time to
discuss it. And look at possible suggestions we may make to the national
office. I would encourage anyone to certainly send a question to Pres.
Riccobono through Pam Allen was facilitating the next live presidential
release to be held on 1 May to bring this issue up.<br><br>
Heather I don’t know if a relay service would be willing to take on an
entire convention. That suggestion although good I think has to be
cleared with them and either the division or the organization as a whole
needs to work with said relay service wherever that service may be to
make certain that it is appropriate. I do know that Zoom has captioning
and I think the first live presidential release was captioned. But I
don’t know at what levels that was in terms of the level of detail. I
was also told afterwards that there was occasional text chatting going on
to look someone could potentially follow what was going on. But you’re
right that it does need to be discussed and some arrangements need to be
made if that’s applicable. Please be rest assured that I will pass that
on to Pres. Alice Eddie. Because I don’t know if she’s on this Issue.
I hope everyone also understands that I’m only one person. There are
nine people on the board. I am hopeful that once we discuss it and
hopefully formulate something we will of course make that known on this
list. And if it’s agreed that the national office completely handle it
I am hopeful that they will make certain that it is made clear what way
forward will be pursued almost list. I hope everyone is safe and as
comfortable as can be if there used to getting out and I’m certainly
going to publish my real personal address here if anyone wants to write
me off list privately I certainly read every email I get. I thank you in
advance for any suggestions you may have for us to pass along to the
national office or on anything that we may do to help things work out for
the benefit of everyone.<br><br>
The following email address is my personal address. Again please feel
free to write me. I go through personal emails first and then I look at
list emails second. I check email several times a day. So I look forward
to reading any emails that people may wish to write me. I do ask that you
let me know if it is okay to pass your email along.<br><br>
<a href="mailto:maurice@maurice-amines.com">
maurice@maurice-amines.com</a>. if you just have me lay and wish to
leave me a relay message, that number follows<br>
Sprint IP relay number 6612463110.<br><br>
Maurice Mines, Board Member <br>
National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division <br>
<a href="mailto:board4@nfbdeaf-blind.org">Email:
board4@nfbdeaf-blind.org</a>
<<a href="mailto:board4@nfbdeaf-blind.org" eudora="autourl">
mailto:board4@nfbdeaf-blind.org</a>> <br>
Website: <a href="http://www.nfbdeaf-blind.org">www.nfbdeaf-blind.org</a>
<<a href="http://www.nfbdeaf-blind.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.nfbdeaf-blind.org</a>> <br>
Live the life you want. <br>
The National Federation of the Blind Deaf-Blind Division, a proud
division <br>
of the National Federation of the Blind, is a community of members and
<br>
friends who believe in the hopes and dreams of the nation's blind. Every
day <br>
we work together to help blind people live the lives they want.<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Apr 19, 2020, at 13:23,
heather via NFB-DB
<<a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>>
wrote:<br><br>
I wonder if the national can use sprint relay services? If sprint relay
still exists after the te-mobile take over! So I heard apple has content
that one can read with their braille displays as part of their close
captioning, hope that we can use the same technology for the convention
this year. I worry because not everyone has braille equipment at home.
The equipment may have been at their schools and all the schools are
closed till the end of the year. Is I can connect giving out equipment to
folks to use at home? I wish there was a way to find out the answers to
these questions! Heather <br>
<br>
<b>From: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">Doula Jarboe via
NFB-DB</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Sunday, April 19, 2020 2:44 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">'NFB Deaf-Blind Division
Mailing List'</a><br>
<b>Cc:
</b><a href="mailto:doula.jarboe@gmail.com">doula.jarboe@gmail.com</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [NFB-DB] zoom meetings<br>
<br>
<br>
Hi All,<br>
<br>
My state affiliate, Colorado, was the first
affiliate doing zoom workshops. And we’ve been trying to figure
out this issue. I’m not sure if any solution has come up. I
know Cart costs a lot of money. My understanding is that there’s
the ability for someone to type about what is going on verbally.
But someone has to be assigned to that position. And I don’t know
if that’s been tried at all. Considering that National Convention
is going to be virtual, some kind of accommodation will have to be
figured out by then. Anyone else?<br>
Doula<br>
President of the fledgling Colorado Deaf-Blind division<br>
<b>From:</b> NFB-DB
<<a href="mailto:nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org">
nfb-db-bounces@nfbnet.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>heather via
NFB-DB<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, April 19, 2020 12:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> NFB Deaf-Blind Division Mailing List
<<a href="mailto:nfb-db@nfbnet.org">nfb-db@nfbnet.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> heather
<<a href="mailto:kd5cbl@gmail.com">kd5cbl@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [NFB-DB] zoom meetings<br>
<br>
Hello, there have been a lot of zoom meetings.For last weeks zoom meeting
on firday, I posted the presidential speech that was up for
discussion off the blind pinpowls list. I wanted to make sure the deaf
blind would be part of the discussion. I did not see them providing
closed captioning so people who are deaf blind can follow along. Has any
had this discussion with national, that they maybe leaving the deaf-blind
out of the loop? Chapter meetings and nfb groups need to use the zoom
feature that has closed captioning. Does anyone know if this feature even
works for those using braille displays? Any devision leaders out there
can verify this or not? Stay safe everyone! Heather
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