[NFB_of_Georgia] Fwd: Menus4ALL - Survey Help for NIH Grant

[Dorothy Griffin]

I have forwarded this email for your information.  There is a survey link
to take the survey if you are interested.

Thank you,

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Helen Fernety <helen.fernety at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 12:19 AM
Subject: Menus4ALL - Survey Help for NIH Grant
To: <dgriffin at nfbga.org>


Hello Ms. Griffin,


We had an amazing opportunity to attend the NBF National Convention in
Orlando last year as guests of our local Tennessee Chapter.  Christina
Clift the Tennessee president lives in Memphis, as I do, and she has been
very supportive of our Menus4ALL project.


The way we see things, part of eating out for everyone is reading the menu.
Enjoying the review of all the yummy options, and casually picking
something within your budget. But for customers with visual impairments in
most cities it's rare they are provided a braille or large print menu.  And
a menu with current prices is often deemed too cost prohibitive.


Menus4ALL is out to change this with a mobile app on iPhones first that
knows what restaurant you are in and if they subscribe to our
services "bam" a fully accessible menu is available.  A menu that works
with VoiceOver, has 3 levels of low vision display settings and even
supports braille when an iPhone is paired with a refreshable braille
display.


Menus are only part of our story. The operations side of our business is
set up to be staffed with local Memphis marketing, social media and
customer service professionals who are blind or have low vision. Our
current supporters have helped us improve and pilot our web-based product
here in Memphis for the last year.


This April we are applying for an NIH grant to convert our current
web-based prototype to a mobile app. Which will allow us to provide
menus nationwide.  Then publish the app to the Apple Store for free.


But in order to be awarded the $10,000 grant, we need to prove the need and
desire is there for Menus4ALL.

Would you consider asking your chapters and their members to take our FREE
online accessible survey?  This would help us out greatly.  If you have any
questions please reach.


Link to survey

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdVweJ_olF36K1pZ2h4oWjomKNEBOCG2gTZcyi7UMlR_pzqvw/viewform


Menus4ALL Demo Video

https://youtu.be/DSvFdDpbIA0

Thank you,
-- 
Helen Fernety
Menus4ALL
305-615-3766



*Changing lives one meal at a time for folks with blindness and visual
impairments*

*"Alone we can do so little; together we can **do so much."* - Helen Keller
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-- 
Dorothy Griffin - President
National Federation of the Blind of Georgia
dgriffin at nfbga.org
770-374-4832

The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
blindness is not what holds you back.