[Nfbc-info] Fw: [nfb-talk] Comments Urgently Needed

[Mary Willows]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Curtis Chong (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)" 
<curtischong at earthlink.net>
To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:29 AM
Subject: [nfb-talk] Comments Urgently Needed


> Greetings and felicitations:
>
> I am writing to ask for your help to influence the U.S. Access Board as it 
> considers proposed amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.  In 
> particular, the Access Board is proposing to deal with access to 
> self-service machines "used for ticketing, check-in or check-out, seat 
> selection, boarding passes, or ordering food in restaurants and cafeterias 
> (220.2)."
>
> In addition to explicitly excluding drive-up only self-service machines, 
> the proposed amendments will not require electronic information kiosks to 
> be accessible.
>
> If you would like to help, please call or email the Access Board before 
> midnight Monday, June 21, with a message saying that the ADA Accessibility 
> guidelines need to include information kiosks as well as drive-up only 
> self-service machines.  Your message does not need to be very long.  It 
> just needs to make the point that you want the Board to include 
> accessibility to information kiosks and drive-up only self-service 
> machines in amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.
>
> You can call and leave a voice mail or send an email to Tim Creagan, the 
> Access Board staff member who is taking comments on the proposed rule 
> modifications.  The number to call is 202-272-0016, and Tim Creagan's 
> email address is creagan at access-board.gov.
>
> For any of you who care to conduct extensive research into this issue, the 
> proposed rule changes can be found at this link:
>
> http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/refresh/draft-rule.htm
>
> Whatever you do, it needs to be done by midnight, Monday, June 21.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Yours sincerely
>
> Curtis Chong, Chairman
> Committee on Research and Development
> National Federation of the Blind
>
>
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