[Nfbf-l] FW: Need Comments To Access Board In A Hurry

[Dan Hicks]

From: Curtis Chong [mailto:curtischong at earthlink.net] 
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 11:54 PM
Subject: Need Comments To Access Board In A Hurry
Importance: High

 

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, President

National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science