[nfb-talk] Responce to NFB 2010 Resolutions:

ckrugman at sbcglobal.net ckrugman at sbcglobal.net
Sun Dec 12 10:46:12 UTC 2010


This sounds like its similar to organizations for the blind instead 
organizations of the blind where a few are determining the interests of 
everyone else.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
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> Go to:
> http://www.republicfortheunitedstates.org,
> Find contacts, then under Illinois, you will find the Name of The 
> Ambassador.
> I sent Patty Chang the remarks of the ambassador.
>
> Ken Chrane
>
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>
>> Who or what was the responder to this resolution. There appears to be a 
>> credibility problem here.
>> Chuck
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Kenneth Chrane" <kenneth.chrane at verizon.net>
>> To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Cc: <officeofthepresident at nfb.org>
>> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2010 6:40 AM
>> Subject: [nfb-talk] Responce to NFB 2010 Resolutions:
>>
>>
>>> Hi This is Ken Chrane.
>>> This is a Responce to our 2010 NFB Resolutions from an ambassitor of The 
>>> Republic of Illinois.
>>> Ken Chrane
>>> In the document below, you are dealing with a dead defacto corporation. 
>>> Defacto WILL be a thing of the past very soon.  We are dejure, we have 
>>> reinhabited our states/Republics original organic Constitution and are 
>>> the law of the land now.  We are recognized by over 94 nations, and the 
>>> Corporation is over.  The time will come when the issues below are 
>>> addressed.  With all due respect, securing our freedom is first, and 
>>> done by re-inhabiting dejure grand juries throughout every county in 
>>> these United States to handle such issues below.   This is the bottom 
>>> up.  The people determining the outcome of their respective citites, 
>>> counties, and state government.
>>>
>>> Have YOU helped establish a dejure grand jury in the county that you 
>>> reside?  That is where all this begins.  Taking care of people in YOUR 
>>> area.  You can write all the whereas es as you choose, but you need to 
>>> narrow this down to reality.   Most of the groups you mentioned below 
>>> will be history.  Dept of motor vehicles...gone, dept of education  - a 
>>> bloated indoctrination controlling mechanism to dumb down our 
>>> children --  gone, individuals mentioned below--in prison likely.    The 
>>> resolution below is an example of more over-loaded and bloated 
>>> bureaucratic nonsense. Government intervention into the lives of every 
>>> individual to secure a small minorities demands is a foolish endeavor. 
>>> Why would you want the government to come in to monitor every aspect of 
>>> every handicapped persons life?  Demanding more oversight, thus 
>>> hindering procurement of contracts, hindering companies by demanding 
>>> they bow and serve needs of one group? This is another example of the 
>>> typical entitlement mentality and bullying that has destroyed the fabric 
>>> of our nation, and forcing companies out of the country.  And with that 
>>> statement you need to understand that we do care about all Americans, 
>>> including the blind, however, enough is enough. But demanding more 
>>> over-bloated bureaucracy will only continue the frustration of groups 
>>> such as yours. And I have experience working with EEOC and the Americans 
>>> with Disabilities Acts, and I know just how worthless they are and why 
>>> real handicapped are not protected.  Everything defacto has failed and 
>>> it is time to take it to the people.
>>>
>>> As I said,  I do respect efforts to protect the blind as well as others 
>>> who are "truly" handicapped, but it is NOT going to get done in the 
>>> manner below.
>>> Instead of disseminating defacto terminology, get educated.    Become a 
>>> part of the re-inhabited government in YOUR area, and YOU can help 
>>> determine how YOUR county handles such issues.   And be advised, you 
>>> will NOT determine how ANYTHING in any other state/republic handles such 
>>> issues within their respective dejure Republics.   Each state is its own 
>>> nation, and the Federal dictating to states ends.  You worry about YOUR 
>>> state, and I will worry about mine.  All will be good, but initiating 
>>> another resolution full of demands with lots of defacto terminology as 
>>> below, is over.  Common law rules the land.  Study common law then 
>>> rewrite the document below according to common law and organic 
>>> Constitutional guidelines and the county settlement document within your 
>>> County.   That is where you must start.  Once you have rewritten the 
>>> document below, by all means send it to me and I will forward it to the 
>>> correct person to bring it forth for discussion to county juries in IL. 
>>> Remember, it must be within common law guidelines.
>>>
>>> Contact me if you reside in Illinois.   Otherwise you should work within 
>>> your own state.
>>> Go to the national site where you may have found my address and download 
>>> the onboarding package and go from there.
>>> If you are in IL you are welcome to contact me back to find out how to 
>>> become a dejure juror and address the issue of the blind in IL.
>>> Since you have the zeal to help the blind, becoming a dejure grand juror 
>>> will be the the best way.
>>> Dejure is the remedy for all lawful issues and protecting all of our 
>>> peoples.
>>>
>>> Warm Regards,
>>> Illinois Ambassador
>>>
>>> On 11/23/2010 9:42 PM, Kenneth Chrane wrote:
>>>  Resolution 2010-01
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Creation of a New Educational Model for Blind Students
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, literacy rates among blind children remain unacceptably low as 
>>> demonstrated by statistics showing that only 10 percent of today's blind 
>>> students under age twenty-two are being taught to read Braille, 
>>> resulting in an unacceptably low (45 percent) high-school graduation 
>>> rate for blind students; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, approximately 70 percent of blind people nationwide are not 
>>> employed, but of those blind people who are employed, 85 percent or more 
>>> use Braille in the workplace, demonstrating a clear relationship among 
>>> literacy, confidence, and success; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind has been the leader in 
>>> encouraging legislative reform, but, despite the improvement that gives 
>>> Braille a stated priority in the delivery of educational services to a 
>>> blind child, school administrators and the lawyers who represent them 
>>> continue to find ways to avoid their responsibility to provide 
>>> appropriate Braille literacy educational services, and the results of 
>>> that legal process more often than not yield ineffective and inadequate 
>>> remedies; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, even in those infrequent cases in which a parent or advocate 
>>> is successful in obtaining improved services for a blind child, the due 
>>> process hearing does not improve educational services generally because 
>>> the remedies, however beneficial, are limited to that child; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, too many parents of blind children remain frustrated with the 
>>> ineffective remedies provided under the Individuals with Disabilities 
>>> Education Act (IDEA) because, even if they file for a due process 
>>> hearing, the due process hearing officer, following judicial precedent, 
>>> finds that a blind child is receiving a free and appropriate public 
>>> education (FAPE), even when "minimal educational benefit" results from 
>>> the educational services to the blind child; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, even with the presumption that Braille will be included in a 
>>> child's individualized education program (IEP) as required in current 
>>> federal and most state laws, if a child is taught Braille, it often 
>>> occurs after the child has no remaining vision or at best insufficient 
>>> vision to read print, resulting in the child's learning to read in the 
>>> upper grades or later when the opportunity to establish real literacy 
>>> skills is diminished or altogether past; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, assessments performed by well-meaning but ill-informed 
>>> professionals demonstrate that a child has enough vision to read print 
>>> but do not take into consideration a diagnosis that inevitably portends 
>>> the inability to read print, and reports from around the country 
>>> indicate that blind children are still not getting their books on time 
>>> despite the clear requirement in federal and state law that books be 
>>> provided on time; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind convened a meeting of 
>>> parents of blind children, lawyers, educators and teachers of blind 
>>> children, elected leaders of the blind, and other blindness 
>>> professionals for the purpose of discussing innovative and effective 
>>> ways to improve the delivery of educational services, including the 
>>> teaching of Braille; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Braille Readers are Leaders initiative, established by the 
>>> National Federation of the Blind in July 2008, has a primary goal of 
>>> ensuring that the number of blind students able to read Braille will 
>>> double by 2015; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind is the leading force in 
>>> the field of blindness, possesses the collective experience of thousands 
>>> of blind people (an accumulated body of knowledge about blindness 
>>> education). and has an unwavering will to improve educational 
>>> opportunities for all blind students: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization pursue innovative and nontraditional models for 
>>> teaching literacy and other blindness skills, including the 
>>> investigation and establishment of a charter school for blind children 
>>> and any other model at the discretion of the president and that the 
>>> resources of this organization be used to establish models that will 
>>> demonstrate the success achieved by high expectations and the philosophy 
>>> of the National Federation of the Blind; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge teachers of blind 
>>> students, state special education agencies, organizations of and for the 
>>> blind, and others responsible for the education of blind children to 
>>> take all other steps necessary to join the National Federation of the 
>>> Blind in ensuring that the number of blind students who are able to read 
>>> and write Braille competently doubles by 2015.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-02
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, on January 28, 2009, Congressmen Edolphus Towns of New York 
>>> and Cliff Stearns of Florida introduced the Pedestrian Safety 
>>> Enhancement Act of 2009 (H.R. 734); and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this legislation directs the secretary of transportation to 
>>> issue a motor vehicle safety standard to address the dangers posed to 
>>> blind and other pedestrians by silent hybrid and electric vehicles; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, on April 21, 2009, Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and 
>>> Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania introduced companion legislation in the 
>>> United States Senate (S. 841); and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind has worked actively to 
>>> gain cosponsor support for this important legislation to preserve the 
>>> right to independent travel for blind pedestrians; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in September 2009 the National Highway Traffic Safety 
>>> Administration (NHTSA) released a report stating that hybrid and 
>>> electric vehicles are twice as likely to be involved in pedestrian 
>>> accidents as traditional internal-combustion-engine vehicles when 
>>> operating at low speed; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the United States Congress has recently introduced the Motor 
>>> Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 (H.R. 5381 in the House of Representatives 
>>> and S. 3302 in the Senate) to address safety concerns related to 
>>> unintended rapid acceleration and sticky pedals in some automobiles; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce unanimously agreed 
>>> to Congressman Stearns's amendment to include provisions of the 
>>> Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 at the committee markup of the 
>>> Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 on May 26, 2010; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation 
>>> also included a similar amendment offered by Senator Kerry during its 
>>> markup of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 on June 9, 2010; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the number of hybrid and electric vehicles on America's 
>>> roadways continues to increase; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, passage of the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010 will mandate 
>>> that regulations be promulgated by the Department of Transportation to 
>>> provide that electric and hybrid vehicles sold in the United States must 
>>> be equipped with an alert sound, which is recognizable as a motor 
>>> vehicle, in order to allow blind pedestrians to maintain the right to 
>>> safe and independent travel: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge Congress to pass the Motor Vehicle Safety 
>>> Act of 2010 to ensure that regulations will be issued to protect the 
>>> right to safe and independent travel for blind pedestrians; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization commend Congressmen Towns 
>>> and Stearns and Senators Kerry and Specter for their leadership on this 
>>> issue as demonstrated by their work to ensure that provisions of the 
>>> Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009 were included in the Motor 
>>> Vehicle Safety Act of 2010; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization commend the Alliance of 
>>> Automobile Manufacturers and the Association of International Automobile 
>>> Manufacturers for working with the National Federation of the Blind and 
>>> for supporting the inclusion of provisions of the Pedestrian Safety 
>>> Enhancement Act of 2009 in the Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 2010.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-03
>>>
>>>  Regarding Inaccessibility of Google Products and Services
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Google is the leading Internet search engine, used by both 
>>> blind and sighted people in the United States and throughout the world; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in addition to its powerful search engine, Google, Inc., 
>>> offers an ever-increasing number of digital and electronic products and 
>>> services, including but not limited to Gmail, Google Maps, Google 
>>> Calendar, Google Books, Google TV, Google Wave, and the Android 
>>> operating system for smart phones; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, while Google's basic search function is accessible to and 
>>> usable by the blind and Google has promised accessibility to some of its 
>>> other products and services (especially Google Books, pending the 
>>> approval of the legal settlement related to that product), many of its 
>>> other services are either inaccessible or not fully accessible; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, while Google provides a screen-access solution called Talkback 
>>> for phones using the Android operating system, the company provides no 
>>> customer support for users of Talkback except YouTube videos posted by 
>>> one of its employees, and Talkback does not provide access to all the 
>>> functions available in Android; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, blind people find using Google Calendar difficult because 
>>> among other things clickable regions of the screen are not always 
>>> identified by screen-access software as clickable due to improper 
>>> application coding; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, when Google Maps data are embedded on third-party Websites, 
>>> Google directs blind users seeking full access to those data to use an 
>>> alternative, inferior accessibility interface through which they have 
>>> difficulty accessing critical features of Google Maps such as 
>>> turn-by-turn driving directions; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Google continues to roll out and announce the future 
>>> availability of new services, but blind people too often find to their 
>>> dismay that these services are not accessible; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, apparently Google does not plan to make new services such as 
>>> Google Wave and Google TV accessible; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Google's corporate motto is "Don't be evil," but the company 
>>> is certainly failing to do good consistently for its blind users: Now, 
>>> therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization demand that Google make a serious, identifiable 
>>> commitment to accessibility in all of its products and services and 
>>> avoid the future release of products and services that are inaccessible 
>>> to its blind users.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-04
>>>
>>>  Regarding Access to Mass Transit Information and Services
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, public transportation can be a critical tool in helping blind 
>>> people participate fully in the economic, political, and social life of 
>>> their communities; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, mass transit systems increasingly use technology to provide 
>>> information and services to customers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, schedules, routing information, and reservations are examples 
>>> of information and services available to customers on the Websites of 
>>> mass transit systems; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, customers are increasingly required to use electronic fare 
>>> cards, but the machines that read them can often not be used 
>>> independently by the blind; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, mass transit systems are beginning to provide specific, 
>>> up-to-the-minute location information about buses to customers at bus 
>>> stops; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, when designing Websites, fare cards, and other information 
>>> technology and services, too many mass transit systems either totally 
>>> overlook or provide minimal nonvisual access to their technology, 
>>> ignoring the access requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act 
>>> and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization insist that the U.S. Department of Transportation 
>>> take all necessary steps to ensure compliance with access laws by mass 
>>> transit systems; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge the Federal Transit 
>>> Administration and the American Public Transportation Association to 
>>> work with the National Federation of the Blind to develop best practices 
>>> that result in enhanced nonvisual access to mass transit system 
>>> information technology and services.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  RESOLUTION 2010-05
>>>
>>>  Regarding Equal and Independent Participation in the Census for the 
>>> Blind
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, all Americans are required to provide census data under Title 
>>> 13, United States Code, Sections 143 and 191; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, data collected through the census are used for legislative 
>>> redistricting as well as the allocation of over $400 billion in 
>>> government funding to public projects such as schools, road and 
>>> infrastructure construction, hospital and healthcare services, 
>>> rehabilitation programs, and disaster preparedness projects, all of 
>>> which affect the blind just as they do all other Americans; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the United States Census Bureau originally permitted 2010 
>>> Census participation only through the completion of a paper form that 
>>> was mailed to American households, and the Census Bureau had not 
>>> developed a strategy for obtaining such data by alternate means; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, after learning that the original strategy for collecting 
>>> census data barred meaningful and independent participation by the 
>>> nation's blind, the Census Bureau promptly recalibrated its strategy to 
>>> permit blind individuals to complete the 2010 census form by calling a 
>>> toll-free phone number or by requesting a census worker to conduct an 
>>> in-person visit; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Census Bureau administers the American Community Survey to 
>>> a portion of American households annually by employing the same 
>>> data-collection strategies as the decennial census; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, these alternatives still preclude the blind from independently 
>>> providing census data: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization strongly urge the United States Bureau of the 
>>> Census to develop and implement mechanisms for blind Americans to submit 
>>> decennial census data independently and participate in annual Community 
>>> Surveys no later than April 2011; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization insist upon being 
>>> involved in the development of such mechanisms or policies to ensure 
>>> that the blind can comply with federal law and participate meaningfully 
>>> and independently in the census.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-06
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, rapid advances in digital technology have led to the increased 
>>> use of touch screens and interactive visual interfaces, replacing 
>>> traditional controls such as knobs, switches, and buttons on consumer 
>>> electronics, home appliances, kiosks, and office equipment and 
>>> technology; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this major shift in technology has rendered most consumer 
>>> electronics, home appliances, kiosks, and office equipment and 
>>> technology inaccessible through nonvisual means, widening the digital 
>>> divide between blind consumers and their sighted peers and threatening 
>>> the employment, independence, and productivity of blind people; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, methods (such as text-to-speech and sound cues) exist for 
>>> manufacturers to make their products accessible; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, accessibility is relatively easy and inexpensive to implement 
>>> when it is incorporated into the design of a product from the outset; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Apple, Inc., has demonstrated the feasibility of incorporating 
>>> access for blind consumers by incorporating text-to-speech technology in 
>>> its entire line of touch-screen consumer electronic products, allowing 
>>> blind consumers to use these products without the addition of 
>>> third-party applications; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the ability to access and use all functions of consumer 
>>> electronics, home appliances, kiosks, and office equipment and 
>>> technology independently is essential to a blind person's independence, 
>>> productivity, and employment; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, on January 27, 2010, Congresswoman Janice Schakowsky of 
>>> Illinois introduced the Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind (H.R. 
>>> 4533) to address the growing trend of inaccessible consumer electronics, 
>>> home appliances, kiosks, and office equipment and technology; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this legislation would establish an office within the 
>>> Department of Commerce to conduct a study on how consumer products can 
>>> be made accessible to the blind, and then establish minimum nonvisual 
>>> access standards for consumer electronics, home appliances, kiosks, and 
>>> office equipment and technology: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the United States Congress to pass the 
>>> Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization commend Congresswoman 
>>> Schakowsky for her introduction and championship of this initiative.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-07
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Failure of the United States Postal Service
>>>
>>>  to Comply with the Randolph-Sheppard Act
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Randolph-Sheppard Act applies to all federal agencies, 
>>> including the United States Postal Service; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Postal Service has at best been inconsistent historically 
>>> in honoring the Randolph-Sheppard priority, resulting in lost 
>>> opportunities for blind entrepreneurs; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Postal Service entered into a nationwide contract with a 
>>> private entity to provide cafeteria and vending services that are 
>>> covered by the Randolph-Sheppard priority without seeking the input of 
>>> state licensing agencies (SLAs), the Rehabilitation Services 
>>> Administration, or Randolph-Sheppard entrepreneurs; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Postal Service has failed to ensure that this private 
>>> contractor is following the procedures negotiated with the 
>>> Randolph-Sheppard community to ensure that any food service opportunity 
>>> is declined in writing by an SLA prior to turning it over to its 
>>> contractor; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Postal Service has refused to provide SLAs with complete 
>>> lists of food service opportunities in each state to facilitate the 
>>> independent determination of whether Postmasters and the national 
>>> contractor are following the law; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, under this nationwide contract both the Postal Service and the 
>>> private contractor have a financial incentive not to comply with the 
>>> Randolph-Sheppard Act; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the contractor has not consistently complied with the 
>>> Randolph-Sheppard Act, resulting in the further denial of opportunities 
>>> to blind entrepreneurs and imposing an additional obstacle to obtaining 
>>> the Postal Service's full compliance with the Randolph-Sheppard Act: 
>>> Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization condemn and deplore the continued failure of the 
>>> United States Postal Service to comply with the Randolph-Sheppard Act 
>>> and demand that the Postal Service cancel its nationwide cafeteria and 
>>> vending contract so that these opportunities can be provided to blind 
>>> entrepreneurs in accordance with the law.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-08
>>>
>>>  Regarding Reading Rights for 2010
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the ability to read is critical to living a well-informed 
>>> personal and professional life; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, blindness and some other disabilities pose challenges to 
>>> accessing all available written information fully and efficiently; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, text-to-speech technology has helped to remove these access 
>>> barriers for the approximately thirty million blind and otherwise 
>>> print-disabled people living in the United States; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this heretofore untapped community of eager consumers promises 
>>> to benefit publishers and authors; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, while a few eReading applications and devices take advantage 
>>> of text-to-speech technology to deliver the content of commercially 
>>> available eBooks to the blind and others with print disabilities and 
>>> other providers of eReading solutions are promising to provide access, 
>>> many such devices and applications, such as the Sony Reader and Barnes 
>>> and Noble Nook, are still inaccessible to the blind and print-disabled, 
>>> and some publishers are still resistant to allowing this population to 
>>> access eBooks; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, at least two major publishers, Random House and Simon and 
>>> Schuster, are still preventing text-to-speech access to all of their 
>>> titles available for the Amazon Kindle eReader; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite repeated promises of access by Amazon, the Kindle 
>>> eReader device and the Kindle applications for personal computers and 
>>> other devices are still inaccessible to blind users, denying them access 
>>> to even those eBooks that are available with text-to-speech; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the solutions employed by some publishers to provide access 
>>> such as making their books available through third-party services like 
>>> Bookshare.org, are ultimately inadequate because they do not serve all 
>>> Americans with print disabilities and rely on the discredited logic of 
>>> separate-but-equal access for the blind and print-disabled; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, any attempt by authors or publishers to restrict 
>>> text-to-speech access to eBooks that are not available as audiobooks 
>>> violates the spirit of a joint statement agreed to by the Reading Rights 
>>> Coalition (of which the National Federation of the Blind is a founding 
>>> member), the Authors Guild, and the Association of American Publishers, 
>>> which states in part:
>>>
>>>  The Reading Rights Coalition, the Authors Guild, and the Association of 
>>> American Publishers believe that the contents of books should be as 
>>> accessible to individuals with print disabilities as they are to 
>>> everyone else. To that end these groups agree to work together and 
>>> through the communities they represent to ensure that, when the 
>>> marketplace offers alternative formats to print books such as audio and 
>>> electronic books, print-disabled consumers can access the contents of 
>>> these alternative formats to the same extent as all other consumers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, civil rights laws and policies in the United States oppose and 
>>> protect against acts that thwart equal access and equitable treatment of 
>>> the blind and other people with print disabilities: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization reaffirm its call for accessible eBooks and urge 
>>> all government procurement agencies, schools, institutions of higher 
>>> education, and libraries to exercise diligence in complying with 
>>> technology-procurement requirements and state and federal disability 
>>> nondiscrimination laws and to insist that mobile eBook readers and 
>>> eBooks have accessible text-to-speech; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge all eBook reader 
>>> developers and content providers to allow equal access by the blind and 
>>> others with print disabilities to the interfaces of their eReaders and 
>>> to the content of eBooks; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization commend those providers 
>>> of eBooks and eBook readers that have incorporated accessibility for the 
>>> blind and others with print disabilities in their products and services.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  RESOLUTION 2010-09
>>>
>>>  Regarding a Statute of Limitations on Allegations of Overpayment by the
>>>
>>>  Social Security Administration
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many blind people who receive Social Security Disability 
>>> Insurance find that, after receiving benefits for years, they are 
>>> notified by letter that a review of their records indicates that they 
>>> have been substantially overpaid; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, it is not uncommon for the Social Security Administration to 
>>> make a determination of overpayment more than twenty years after the 
>>> fact, requiring that the recipient of benefits produce data showing they 
>>> were indeed entitled to the benefits they received in order to appeal 
>>> the determination; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the record-keeping requirements that this practice imposes on 
>>> beneficiaries exceed even those of the Internal Revenue Service and 
>>> often present an impossible challenge to the individual recipient, who 
>>> often has limited space for filing records; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this practice also places an undue demand on former employers 
>>> to supply records, a demand that they are often unable to meet: Now, 
>>> therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the United States Congress to enact a 
>>> statute of limitations, not to exceed seven years, in which the Social 
>>> Security Administration can attempt to retrieve alleged overpayments; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge the Congress to 
>>> require the Social Security Administration to share with the beneficiary 
>>> such evidence as it has in arriving at its determination that an 
>>> overpayment has been made.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-10
>>>
>>>  Regarding the National Education Technology Plan for 2010
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, on March 5, 2010, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of 
>>> Educational Technology released a draft National Educational Technology 
>>> Plan (NETP) for 2010 entitled "Transforming American Education: Learning 
>>> Powered by Technology"; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, although the NETP embraces principles of universal design, it 
>>> addresses the specific issue of accessibility to the blind and others 
>>> with disabilities in only a few paragraphs of its more than one hundred 
>>> pages; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, at present blind students are consigned to separate and 
>>> unequal access to educational materials due to inaccessible technology 
>>> or the failure to convert materials into an accessible format in a 
>>> timely manner; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, with twenty-first century technology, there is no reason why 
>>> all educational materials cannot be made immediately accessible to blind 
>>> students; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, mainstream access for the print disabled occurs when it is 
>>> demanded by educational institutions or by state or federal authorities, 
>>> as evidenced by (1) the latest version of Blackboard's becoming 
>>> substantially more accessible after California State University refused 
>>> to allow Blackboard to bid on a contract while its course management 
>>> software was inaccessible; (2) iTunes U's becoming fully accessible 
>>> after the NFB and the Massachusetts Attorney General threatened Apple's 
>>> collegiate partners with lawsuits; and (3) Amazon's announcing it would 
>>> produce an accessible Kindle after the Department of Justice secured 
>>> consent decrees from five colleges using the device in pilot projects to 
>>> terminate those projects; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the United States Department of Education has an unprecedented 
>>> opportunity to provide the leadership necessary to ensure that emerging 
>>> educational technologies include equal access for the blind and others 
>>> with disabilities in their design and that manufacturers view equal 
>>> access as the expected standard: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization express our serious concern that the NETP fails 
>>> to recognize the need for the United States Department of Education to 
>>> provide concentrated leadership, in both policy and practice, in order 
>>> to ensure that blind students and other students with disabilities can 
>>> take full advantage of the opportunities offered by emerging educational 
>>> technologies in America's classrooms; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization strongly urge the 
>>> Department of Education to recognize that accessibility of educational 
>>> technology to the blind and other students with disabilities must play a 
>>> more prominent role within and throughout the NETP; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the United 
>>> States Department of Education to conduct research in collaboration with 
>>> the National Federation of the Blind and other blindness and 
>>> print-disability organizations to create standards for the development 
>>> of accessible educational technologies and then to issue regulations 
>>> requiring manufacturers of educational technology to adhere to such 
>>> standards when producing new technologies, once such standards are 
>>> published, ensuring that the nonvisual experience with technology is as 
>>> rich as the visual experience and that there is equal ease of access to 
>>> all functions of the technology, whether it is being used visually or 
>>> nonvisually.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-11
>>>
>>>  Regarding National Industries for the Blind and the Definition of 
>>> "Employment Outcome" in the Vocational Rehabilitation Program
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, blind people are capable of working with the sighted, playing 
>>> with the sighted, and living with the sighted on terms of complete 
>>> equality; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the blind seek the day when we no longer need to assert our 
>>> civil rights to be given equal opportunities and to be treated on terms 
>>> of equality with our sighted peers, but that day will only come if our 
>>> lives are fully integrated with those of the sighted; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in enacting the Rehabilitation Act, Congress found that the 
>>> blind have the right to enjoy full inclusion and integration in the 
>>> economic, political, social, cultural, and educational mainstream of 
>>> American society; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, following congressional intent, in January 2001 the U.S. 
>>> Department of Education's Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) 
>>> issued regulations that redefined the term "employment outcome" as an 
>>> outcome in which an individual with a disability enters full or 
>>> part-time competitive employment in an integrated setting; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, before redefining what constitutes an employment outcome 
>>> recognizable in the vocational rehabilitation program, many state 
>>> vocational rehabilitation agencies limited their blind clients' 
>>> opportunities to sheltered, nonintegrated settings, relegating them to 
>>> working in positions that pay less than their sighted counterparts 
>>> receive in the competitive labor market, to poor opportunity for career 
>>> advancement, and to work settings with little opportunity to work 
>>> alongside their sighted peers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, National Industries for the Blind (NIB) has recently requested 
>>> that RSA issue guidelines stating that an employment outcome 
>>> recognizable by the vocational rehabilitation program include placement 
>>> of individuals who are blind and are working in NIB's AbilityOne network 
>>> of agencies; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, NIB's primary purpose for requesting a change in the 
>>> definition of "employment outcome" is to give state vocational 
>>> rehabilitation agencies the ability to count placement in NIB programs 
>>> as successful employment outcomes for purposes of meeting RSA's 
>>> mandatory standards and indicators; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, although at present NIB's policy is that the blind should be 
>>> paid at least the minimum wage, several NIB workshops do not adhere to 
>>> this policy, and NIB officials maintain that they cannot require the 
>>> workshops to do so; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, blind people must be allowed to determine for themselves 
>>> whether an NIB program is their desired employment outcome and not be 
>>> subjected to a vocational rehabilitation system incentivized to achieve 
>>> easy placements: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization condemn and deplore National Industries for the 
>>> Blind's campaign to change the definition of an "employment outcome"; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization strongly urge the 
>>> Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and the Commissioner of 
>>> the Rehabilitation Services Administration to retain the current 
>>> definition of "employment outcome," which will continue to place the 
>>> emphasis of rehabilitation on employment in integrated settings rather 
>>> than on easy closure of cases or the support of National Industries for 
>>> the Blind.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-12
>>>
>>>  Regarding Developer Guidelines and Application Programming Interfaces 
>>> (APIs) from Vendors of Screen-Access Software
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the ability of blind computer users to use fully the functions 
>>> available in word processors, email clients, database programs, Web 
>>> browsers, and other Windows-based applications requires screen-access 
>>> software to have the information it needs to provide meaningful 
>>> information in speech, refreshable Braille, or magnification; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite a tremendous amount of information published by 
>>> Microsoft about developing accessible applications, the accessibility 
>>> guidelines and recommendations promulgated by the Worldwide Web 
>>> Consortium through its Web Access Initiative, and the standards and 
>>> guidelines implementing Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, not 
>>> enough information is available for the well-intentioned Windows 
>>> application developer who poses the question to the screen-access 
>>> software developer, "What can I do to make my application accessible to 
>>> the blind users of your program?"; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, by contrast, developers of applications designed to run on 
>>> Apple platforms such as the Macintosh and the iPhone are provided a rich 
>>> set of guidelines and application programming interfaces designed to 
>>> maximize accessibility to end users of Apple products who rely on access 
>>> technology; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, experience has shown that, from the perspective of the blind 
>>> computer user of Windows software, the most accessible application is 
>>> the one that can pass meaningful information directly to the 
>>> screen-access program--either through a well-documented application 
>>> programming interface or by painting the screen in a way that is 
>>> calculated to generate meaningful output from the screen-access 
>>> technology: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization call upon the manufacturers of Windows-based 
>>> screen-access technology for the blind to do one or both of the 
>>> following to enable application developers to maximize the accessibility 
>>> of their software to the blind: (1) develop a well-documented 
>>> application programming interface (API) through which application 
>>> software can exchange meaningful information with screen-access 
>>> technology; and (2) publish clear and definitive guidelines for 
>>> application developers that will enable them to make their applications 
>>> truly accessible to the blind end user.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-13
>>>
>>>  Regarding Insurance Coverage of Accessible Equipment for Diabetics
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, standard medical treatment for diabetics calls for the patient 
>>> to monitor blood glucose levels so that he or she can make adjustments 
>>> in the amount of insulin needed; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, certain health insurance plans dictate what brand of diabetic 
>>> equipment a member must use to comply with the treatment regimen, 
>>> claiming that this strategy controls costs for both the insurer and the 
>>> insured; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, most insurance companies contract strictly with one 
>>> manufacturer, who typically provides only inaccessible blood glucose 
>>> meters and inaccessible insulin injection devices, presenting a serious 
>>> obstacle to complying with the testing regimen for tens of thousands of 
>>> blind people with diabetes; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the failure to place accessible blood glucose meters and 
>>> accessible insulin injection devices on the insurers' formulary lists 
>>> not only is a barrier to independence for blind diabetics, but also 
>>> adversely affects their quality of life because of the added 
>>> difficulties they must confront in attempting to manage and control 
>>> their diabetes; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the only way blind diabetics can acquire an accessible blood 
>>> glucose meter or accessible insulin injection device is through a long 
>>> and complicated process of submitting extensive medical documentation, 
>>> and approval is not guaranteed; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, blind people have the same right to health care as their 
>>> sighted peers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, insurance companies must no longer be allowed to discriminate 
>>> against blind people because of their need for specialized equipment; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the denial of accessible equipment by insurance companies 
>>> undermines the emphasis on preventive care set forth in the 2010 federal 
>>> healthcare reform legislation: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization strongly urge the secretary of health and human 
>>> services to eliminate discrimination against the blind by requiring that 
>>> Medicare, Medicaid, and all other medical insurance programs under the 
>>> secretary's jurisdiction cover accessible equipment for diabetics; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization strongly urge state 
>>> legislatures and regulators to eliminate discrimination against the 
>>> blind by requiring private medical insurance companies to cover 
>>> accessible equipment for diabetics.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-14
>>>
>>>  Regarding Access by the Blind to Virtual Laboratory Experiences in the 
>>> Sciences
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, science classes have presented access barriers to the blind 
>>> for decades; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, these barriers have been created by a lack of accessible 
>>> equipment and materials and by misconceptions held by science faculty 
>>> and teachers of the blind about the capabilities of the blind in these 
>>> curricula; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, these misconceptions have contributed to a significantly lower 
>>> percentage of blind students pursuing careers in science, technology, 
>>> engineering, and mathematics (STEM); and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, increasingly school districts across the United States have 
>>> replaced hands-on science learning with online virtual laboratory 
>>> experiences; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many of these virtual laboratory experiences are not 
>>> accessible using the access technology employed by blind students, 
>>> thereby denying them the experience of scientific exploration and 
>>> discovery; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this lack of educational experience and opportunity will 
>>> further decrease the number of blind students seeking to enter STEM 
>>> professions; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind is creating greater 
>>> understanding among teachers by offering challenging STEM-related 
>>> programs that serve as a demonstration of the techniques that can be 
>>> used to integrate the blind into STEM courses: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the United States Department of Education to 
>>> mandate that all hands-on and virtual laboratory learning experiences be 
>>> accessible to blind students so that they can have the same educational 
>>> opportunities as their sighted classmates; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization promote legislation as 
>>> part of the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities 
>>> Education Act (IDEA) to provide parents and blind students with legal 
>>> recourse provisions in the Individualized Education Program (IEP) to 
>>> require that a school provide a hands-on science learning experience if 
>>> an accessible virtual one cannot be offered; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge technology companies 
>>> to work with the National Federation of the Blind to eliminate the 
>>> accessibility barriers to virtual laboratory learning experiences, 
>>> making them more accessible to the blind of this nation.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-15
>>>
>>>  Regarding Discrimination by Airlines Against Blind Passengers
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in an age in which the Internet increasingly dominates the way 
>>> business is conducted, air carriers usually make their lowest fares and 
>>> deepest discounts available only to those customers who book travel 
>>> through airline Websites; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, while booking air travel online can be convenient, blind 
>>> passengers cannot always take advantage of this service because of 
>>> accessibility barriers on airline Websites; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in recognition of this fact the Department of Transportation 
>>> issued regulations requiring that, if a passenger with a disability 
>>> cannot use an airline Website to book travel because it is inaccessible 
>>> and instead calls the airline's customer service number, the airline 
>>> must offer the passenger the same air fares and discounts available on 
>>> the Website over the telephone and must waive any fee for the use of the 
>>> telephone service; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, a recent study conducted by Dr. Jonathan Lazar, director of 
>>> the Universal Usability Laboratory (UUL) at Towson University in 
>>> Maryland, and some of his students found that Websites operated by four 
>>> out of the ten U.S. airlines that were studied--Alaska Airlines, JetBlue 
>>> Airlines, United Airlines, and US Airways--contain accessibility 
>>> barriers that prevent blind users from booking travel on these Websites; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this study, which will be published in Government Information 
>>> Quarterly, further found that, when the call centers of these four 
>>> airlines were contacted by study participants who identified themselves 
>>> as blind people needing to book travel by telephone because they could 
>>> not access the airline's Website, the airlines did not always follow the 
>>> Department of Transportation regulations requiring them to offer the 
>>> same air fares to blind customers who call their customer service lines 
>>> and to waive the fee for using their call center instead of their 
>>> Website, even when specifically informed by the caller of these 
>>> regulations; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the most egregious violators of these regulations were United 
>>> Airlines and US Airways, which failed to follow one or both of these 
>>> regulatory requirements in at least a third and as many as 46 percent of 
>>> the calls placed to them; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the results of this study are a textbook example of why 
>>> government agencies and businesses must not rely on a philosophy of 
>>> separate-but-equal access for blind customers, since in reality separate 
>>> is never equal; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the only way to ensure truly equal access by the blind and to 
>>> prevent discrimination is to require air carriers to maintain accessible 
>>> Websites that allow blind customers to perform all of the functions that 
>>> sighted customers can perform, particularly the booking of air travel: 
>>> Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the secretary of transportation to issue 
>>> regulations requiring all air carriers to maintain accessible Websites 
>>> that allow blind customers to perform all of the functions available to 
>>> sighted customers, including the booking of air travel; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization demand that the four 
>>> airlines whose Websites were identified as having accessibility barriers 
>>> take immediate steps to remove those barriers and allow blind customers 
>>> full and equal access to their Websites and specifically to the ability 
>>> to book air travel online.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-16
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Randolph-Sheppard Act and the
>>>
>>>  Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Randolph-Sheppard Act applies to all federal contracts and 
>>> permits for cafeteria and food services on federal property; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Randolph-Sheppard Act takes priority over the 
>>> Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act in contracts for cafeteria and food services; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, notwithstanding the Randolph-Sheppard Act's priority, the 
>>> Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled 
>>> routinely seeks to add cafeteria and food services to its procurement 
>>> list without notice to the Rehabilitation Services Administration or the 
>>> affected state licensing agencies; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
>>> Severely Disabled also routinely seeks to add mess-attendant or 
>>> dining-facilities-attendant services to the procurement list without 
>>> notice to the Rehabilitation Services Administration or the affected 
>>> state licensing agencies and without providing information from which it 
>>> can be determined whether the services fall under the Randolph-Sheppard 
>>> Act; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
>>> Severely Disabled has refused to respond to requests for information 
>>> about services proposed for addition to the procurement list: Now, 
>>> therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization condemn and deplore the actions of the Committee 
>>> for Purchase >From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled in 
>>> continuing to place on the procurement list services that fall under the 
>>> Randolph-Sheppard Act; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization condemn and deplore the 
>>> refusal of the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or 
>>> Severely Disabled to follow appropriate, transparent, and accountable 
>>> practices to determine which contracts should be placed on the 
>>> procurement list; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge the Committee for 
>>> Purchase >From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled and other 
>>> federal agencies to provide full details about the services proposed for 
>>> addition to the procurement list so that all interested stakeholders can 
>>> be assured that the addition complies with all applicable laws; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the House 
>>> Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Senate Committee on 
>>> Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions to take such actions as will 
>>> require the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely 
>>> Disabled to comply with the law.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-17
>>>
>>>  Regarding Online Testing
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many school districts throughout the country are now using 
>>> online test preparation sites, such as Study Island by CTB/McGraw-Hill, 
>>> to aid their students in readying themselves for the assessments used in 
>>> their states to determine progress in meeting the goals of the No Child 
>>> Left Behind Act and other end-of-course requirements; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Study Island and other preparation and testing sites have 
>>> failed to incorporate adequate accessibility features to allow blind or 
>>> visually impaired students to access all of the needed information to 
>>> prepare for and take pretests; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this inaccessibility is evidenced in designs that convey 
>>> essential information to the student by using color, strike-throughs, 
>>> unlabeled graphics, and split frames, all of which create barriers for 
>>> the blind student; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, these barriers result in blind test takers' being evaluated 
>>> more on the accessibility of the computer programs used to administer 
>>> the pretests than on the content the test is intended to measure; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, cooperation with organizations of and for the blind can result 
>>> in software solutions that ensure equality of opportunity to blind 
>>> students preparing for these all-important tests: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization call upon the United States Department of 
>>> Education to ensure that any test preparation company receiving a 
>>> contract to produce statewide or national tests or study materials build 
>>> accessibility features into its software and make its Websites 
>>> accessible to the blind; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that until such time as electronically 
>>> administered tests and study materials are as usable by the blind as 
>>> they are by the sighted, this organization insist that all materials be 
>>> made available in hard-copy Braille, large print, and such other 
>>> alternative formats as may be necessary to ensure that preparation for 
>>> and administration of tests are equally accessible to blind people.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-18
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Blind Persons Return to Work Act of 2010
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, on January 28, 2010, Senators Christopher Dodd of Connecticut 
>>> and John McCain of Arizona introduced the Blind Persons Return to Work 
>>> Act of 2010 (S. 2962), the Senate companion to the Blind Persons Return 
>>> to Work Act of 2009 (H.R. 886), introduced in the House last year by 
>>> Congressman John Lewis of Georgia; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this legislation would encourage blind people to reach their 
>>> full employment potential by reforming the Social Security Disability 
>>> Insurance (SSDI) program so that blind beneficiaries will lose only one 
>>> dollar of benefits for every three dollars earned over the monthly 
>>> limit, instead of losing all benefits when they exceed this limit; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this legislation will also relieve administrative burdens for 
>>> both the Social Security Administration and blind beneficiaries by 
>>> changing the monthly earnings test to an annual test and by setting a 
>>> fixed deduction for impairment-related work expenses; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind has worked tirelessly for 
>>> well over ten years to remove the disincentive to work in the SSDI 
>>> program so that blind beneficiaries can transition from SSDI to the 
>>> workforce without being penalized for doing so; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in 1999 Congress recognized this problem and passed Ticket to 
>>> Work legislation that was supposed to establish a demonstration project 
>>> to test the viability of a two-for-one earnings-to-benefit reduction 
>>> program; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite over ten years' having elapsed, the demonstration 
>>> project has yet to begin because of changes in leadership and 
>>> disagreements among actuaries; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, with a 70 percent rate of unemployment and underemployment for 
>>> the blind, we cannot wait for the stalled demonstration project to 
>>> begin; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the United States Senate is working on a jobs bill to address 
>>> the high unemployment rate across America, which affects people with 
>>> disabilities even more than the rest of the population: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the United States Senate to include 
>>> provisions of the Blind Persons Return to Work Act of 2010 in the Senate 
>>> jobs bill to ensure that blind people can successfully enter the 
>>> workforce and reach their full employment potential; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this organization urge Congress to pass 
>>> this jobs bill, thus passing the Blind Persons Return to Work Act; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this organization commend Congressman 
>>> Lewis and Senators Dodd and McCain for their longtime championing of the 
>>> Blind Persons Return to Work Act and loyalty to our cause.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-19
>>>
>>>  Regarding NLS Restrictions on Foreign-Produced Materials
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically 
>>> Handicapped of the Library of Congress (NLS) has a long history of 
>>> providing reading materials in Braille and recorded formats to its 
>>> patrons; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, NLS is able to produce only approximately 2,000 books per 
>>> year, a mere fraction of the number of books published in the U.S. each 
>>> year; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in recognition of the dearth of books available to its 
>>> patrons, NLS has in the past offered materials recorded by libraries and 
>>> producers outside the United States through interlibrary loan; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, although NLS still permits patrons to borrow Braille materials 
>>> from producers outside the U.S., in 2008 following the conversion to 
>>> digital audio format and the development of the Braille and Audio 
>>> Reading Download program, NLS discontinued interlibrary loan of digital 
>>> audio materials from foreign producers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, one of the principal reasons for this discontinuation is the 
>>> incompatibility of file formats with the NLS system, which requires 
>>> features not available to international producers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the expectation of greater access to materials created by the 
>>> digitization of books is now being curtailed because of the new NLS 
>>> policy on digital audio books from foreign producers: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the City of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge NLS immediately to work with foreign 
>>> producers of digital audio materials to fulfill the real promise of 
>>> access made possible by today's advanced digital technology.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-20
>>>
>>>  Regarding Refreshable Braille Notetaker Devices
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the advent of refreshable Braille technology has made Braille 
>>> more portable; more flexible; and, best of all, more widely available 
>>> than ever before; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, refreshable-Braille technology is becoming increasingly 
>>> necessary in educating blind children because a rapidly increasing 
>>> portion of the reading material is available only in an on-screen 
>>> format; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the failure to provide blind students with a Braille interface 
>>> reduces their opportunity to acquire literacy skills because they are 
>>> forced to listen to the material using computer speech output; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, personal data assistants with refreshable Braille displays 
>>> (more commonly known as electronic notetakers) include the ability for 
>>> the user to handle word processing, email, and Web browsing, providing 
>>> potential for seamless communication between those who use Braille and 
>>> those who use print; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite the advertised claims that these devices are 
>>> compatible with mainstream word processors, the reality is that none of 
>>> them allows a Braille user the security of knowing they can author, 
>>> read, or collaborate with sighted peers who use current versions of 
>>> today's popular applications, even though the Braille devices cost three 
>>> to four times as much as the hardware and software used by the general 
>>> public; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, while all of these Braille notetakers advertise access to the 
>>> Internet and feature some version of a browser, most do not allow 
>>> communication with even the most basic Java scripts used to gain access 
>>> at airports and hotels, and they are not compatible with Aria and other 
>>> technologies currently being deployed by businesses, Internet providers, 
>>> and even social-networking sites; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many of today's mainstream computers, phones, and PDAs can be 
>>> accessed in Braille by connecting them to a type of refreshable Braille 
>>> display that is not itself a notetaker, giving the user access to the 
>>> power and integration of the mainstream device but sacrificing some of 
>>> the convenience of an all-in-one device (as are the notetakers): Now, 
>>> therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge the designers and manufacturers of 
>>> notetakers with refreshable Braille displays to give top priority in 
>>> their future development to providing better integration with mainstream 
>>> devices, applications, and data; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization strongly encourage school 
>>> districts and others involved in the purchase of educational access 
>>> technology to acquire refreshable Braille technology for blind students 
>>> and to consider the need for integration with mainstream devices, 
>>> applications, and data when choosing which devices to purchase.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-21
>>>
>>>  Regarding Manufacture of Accessible Medical Devices
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, diabetics must measure the level of glucose in their blood 
>>> accurately and draw the correct amount of insulin in order to control 
>>> their diabetes and to reduce the risk of diabetic complications; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, tens of thousands of diabetics need nonvisual access to 
>>> equipment such as blood glucose meters and insulin-injection and 
>>> infusion devices because diabetes is the leading cause of blindness 
>>> among adults of working age in the United States with thousands losing 
>>> their vision each year; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the need for nonvisual access is even greater because many 
>>> blind and visually impaired senior citizens become diabetic and many 
>>> diabetic senior citizens lose vision either temporarily or permanently 
>>> from causes other than diabetes; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, nonvisual access means that a blind person can use all 
>>> features, functions, and navigation aspects of a given device, and 
>>> merely providing speech output does not constitute true accessibility; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, some manufacturers of diabetic equipment incorporate true 
>>> nonvisual access features in their devices, but more companies must be 
>>> encouraged to follow this practice; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, to meet the goal of emphasizing wellness programs in the 2010 
>>> healthcare reform legislation, the federal government should encourage 
>>> manufacturers to ensure true nonvisual access to their devices; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is currently 
>>> promulgating regulations for health information technology programs, but 
>>> the scope of the regulations should be broadened to include medical 
>>> devices as well: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization strongly urge the secretary of the U.S. 
>>> Department of Health and Human Services to incorporate true nonvisual 
>>> access requirements for the manufacture of diabetic devices in its 
>>> health information technology regulations; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization insist that the secretary 
>>> of health and human services create incentives that will lead to greater 
>>> accessibility of current and future diabetic equipment.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-22
>>>
>>>  Regarding Inaccessible Basic Cell Phones and Smartphones
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, more and more manufacturers are introducing basic cell phones 
>>> and smartphones with an ever increasing number of capabilities such as 
>>> call management, contact management, text messaging, Internet browsing, 
>>> and e-mail; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, some of these phones even have the capability to function as 
>>> social networking content aggregators for Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, 
>>> and Windows Live; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite the requirements of Section 255 of the 
>>> Telecommunications Act and best industry practices, as demonstrated by 
>>> Apple, for making cell phones accessible to the blind out of the box, 
>>> too many manufacturers release cell phones without any way for blind 
>>> users to access many of their features; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many companies advertise their commitment to accessibility but 
>>> ignore our needs, despite the fact that blind consumers are now, and 
>>> have been for many years, purchasers of basic cell phones and 
>>> smartphones: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization condemn and deplore the release of these 
>>> inaccessible basic cell phones and smartphones by manufacturers in 
>>> flagrant disregard of both their legal obligations and their obligation 
>>> to provide equal access to their products for all consumers, including 
>>> the blind; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization demand that manufacturers 
>>> follow the lead of Apple and immediately take steps to provide equal 
>>> access for the blind to all current and future basic cell phones and 
>>> smartphones.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-23
>>>
>>>  Regarding Sirius XM Radio, Inc.
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Sirius XM Radio, Inc., is the sole provider in the United 
>>> States of radio programming delivered by satellite to paid subscribers 
>>> using receivers specifically designed to receive these satellite 
>>> transmissions; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the service provided by Sirius XM offers a wide variety of 
>>> audio programming, including most genres of music, live sporting events, 
>>> news, talk, comedy, and both classic and contemporary radio drama; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite the fact that Sirius XM is a radio service, the units 
>>> that subscribers must purchase in order to receive the service have 
>>> visual displays to convey information to the listener such as the title 
>>> and artist of the current song being played or the score of the sporting 
>>> event to which the listener is tuned; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, Sirius XM also transmits some information exclusively to the 
>>> visual display such as the latest stock quotes and the current 
>>> temperature and weather conditions when a user is tuned to its traffic 
>>> and weather channels; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, sighted users of the service can perform a number of tasks 
>>> such as viewing the current time, date, signal reception, and battery 
>>> status of the receiver; setting the receiver to record a scheduled 
>>> program; viewing what is playing across the service without switching 
>>> stations; organizing recorded music and programs; creating, organizing, 
>>> and navigating a list of favorite channels; and much more, but these 
>>> features are not available to blind users because they cannot read the 
>>> visual display; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, like many other consumer electronic products, Sirius XM radio 
>>> receivers increasingly rely on touch screens and interactive visual 
>>> interfaces to accomplish all tasks, rather than traditional buttons, 
>>> switches, or knobs, making it difficult for blind users to access even 
>>> the basic features of these receivers; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, despite these barriers to full access to the Sirius XM 
>>> satellite radio service, many blind Americans have purchased 
>>> subscriptions to the service because of its wide variety of quality 
>>> radio programming, and it is likely that many more would do so if Sirius 
>>> XM were to make its radio receivers accessible; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the technology to make these receivers accessible already 
>>> exists and has been implemented in other personal entertainment devices 
>>> such as Apple's iPod and iPhone product lines and the DICE ITR-100-A HD 
>>> radio; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, accessible Sirius XM receivers that allow users to access all 
>>> functions nonvisually would not only benefit blind consumers, but would 
>>> also be ideal for older Americans who are losing vision, for those with 
>>> other disabilities that prevent them from reading print, and for the 
>>> many subscribers who use the service in their cars, since they would be 
>>> able to control their satellite radios with less distraction from 
>>> driving: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization urge Sirius XM Radio, Inc., to make its receivers 
>>> fully accessible to blind subscribers.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-24
>>>
>>>  Regarding the Worldwide Reading Rights Campaign and the
>>>
>>>  Right to Get Accessible Texts from Throughout the World
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind has led the way in 
>>> advancing the rights of the blind to gain access to published works on 
>>> the national and international levels; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Federation's national efforts resulted in passage of the 
>>> Chafee Amendment to U.S. copyright law, which permits authorized 
>>> entities to reproduce published works in accessible formats without 
>>> permission from the copyright holder; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the vast majority of the countries of the world do not possess 
>>> such laws or possess laws that are much weaker; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, generally speaking, international copyright law does not 
>>> currently permit the sharing of accessible texts across international 
>>> borders, with the result that blind people in the United States cannot 
>>> get access to hundreds of thousands of works in accessible formats 
>>> produced in other countries, and blind people throughout the rest of the 
>>> world cannot get access to the United States collection, creating a 
>>> worldwide book famine, in which less than one percent of all published 
>>> works are available to the blind in accessible formats; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, this inability to share accessible books across borders and 
>>> the international inconsistency in copyright law lead either to needless 
>>> duplication in the conversion of published works into accessible formats 
>>> or to no access at all; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, to address this book famine, the National Federation of the 
>>> Blind worked with the World Blind Union (WBU) to draft a proposed treaty 
>>> that would legalize the cross-border sharing of accessible works and 
>>> also harmonize copyright exceptions to create an atmosphere in which 
>>> even greater numbers of accessible works can be produced; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, in 2008 the WBU brought this proposed treaty before the World 
>>> Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an entity of the United 
>>> Nations, through original sponsorship by Brazil, Ecuador, and Paraguay, 
>>> and later by Mexico; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, from June 21 through 24, 2010, WIPO's Standing Committee on 
>>> Copyright (SCCR) conducted its twentieth regular session (SCCR 20) in 
>>> Geneva, where the WBU-proposed treaty and three other proposals on the 
>>> same topic received extensive consideration; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the National Federation of the Blind received official 
>>> standing as an authorized non-governmental organization (NGO) and gave 
>>> an intervention in favor of the WBU-proposed treaty and/or some other 
>>> binding international legal instrument; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the SCCR cannot make recommendations unless all nations 
>>> present agree; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, after years of negotiation between governments and NGOs, it 
>>> appeared that a proposal would go forward at SCCR 20 that would have led 
>>> to binding international legal instruments within a definite time; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, at the last minute, despite the Herculean efforts of the WBU 
>>> community, the U.S. government delegation, and the Latin American block 
>>> of countries, the African Union countries withdrew their support for the 
>>> negotiated proposal, stating that one of their issues (gaining copyright 
>>> exceptions for educational, research, and archive purposes) must proceed 
>>> at the same pace as the issue affecting the blind, even though the 
>>> African Union's proposal addresses an entirely different subject and is 
>>> not as well developed at this time: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization reaffirm its support for the World Blind Union's 
>>> proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization express its great outrage 
>>> and disappointment that the African Union chose to hijack the proposed 
>>> WBU treaty and related proposals, an action needlessly delaying relief 
>>> from the worldwide book famine for blind people; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization commend the U.S. 
>>> government delegation's efforts in Geneva to keep the process moving 
>>> forward; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the U.S. 
>>> government to work closely with the National Federation of the Blind, 
>>> the WBU, and other governments to find a way forward to the adoption of 
>>> binding international norms and legal instruments that permit 
>>> cross-border sharing of accessible works and harmonize copyright 
>>> exceptions as part of the overall effort to secure the right of blind 
>>> people to read published works on the same terms as the rest of the 
>>> world population.
>>>
>>>  ------------
>>>
>>>  Resolution 2010-25
>>>
>>>  Regarding Civil Rights Protection of Blind People
>>>
>>>  and Their Service Animals in Public Accommodations
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the purpose of the National Federation of the Blind is "the 
>>> removal of the legal, social, and economic barriers faced by the blind" 
>>> so that we will achieve "full integration into society on terms of 
>>> equality"; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, discrimination by places of public accommodation is one of the 
>>> barriers faced by the blind, especially among those who choose to use a 
>>> guide dog as their mobility tool; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, state laws vary in the protection from discrimination that 
>>> they offer to their blind citizens; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits 
>>> discrimination on the basis of disability in public accommodations and 
>>> offers greater protection against discrimination than many state laws; 
>>> and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, many states have laws that contain provisions that are 
>>> incongruent with the ADA such as requirements that service animals wear 
>>> specific gear, provisions for muzzling, requirements for documentation, 
>>> language concerning certifications that do not exist, and prohibitions 
>>> of service animals in zoos, all of which are considered discriminatory 
>>> under the ADA; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, although the ADA has been in existence for twenty years, many 
>>> states have not bothered to change their laws to conform to the ADA; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, a large majority of states provide criminal penalties for 
>>> discrimination on the basis of disability, allowing law enforcement to 
>>> intervene, generally resulting in an immediate resolution of such access 
>>> issues while providing appropriate penalties for more serious 
>>> infractions; and
>>>
>>>  WHEREAS, criminal penalties allow a more expeditious resolution of such 
>>> access issues (benefiting the disabled community in general and society 
>>> as a whole) by addressing discrimination at the local level, while 
>>> relieving individuals from the burden of costly litigation and prolonged 
>>> civil processes: Now, therefore,
>>>
>>>  BE IT RESOLVED by the National Federation of the Blind in Convention 
>>> assembled this seventh day of July, 2010, in the city of Dallas, Texas, 
>>> that this organization call upon state legislatures to examine their 
>>> statutes for parity with the ADA, removing provisions that are not in 
>>> conformity with this federal law; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization call upon the remaining 
>>> states that do not provide criminal penalties for discrimination against 
>>> blind guide dog users to promote and protect the equal rights of their 
>>> blind citizens more effectively by creating criminal penalties for acts 
>>> of discrimination; and
>>>
>>>  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this organization urge all states to 
>>> protect the civil rights of the blind by vigorous enforcement of the 
>>> law.
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