[Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed

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It's done.
Dwight
 
 
In a message dated 6/18/2010 5:38:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
curtischong at earthlink.net writes:

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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