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

[Mark Tardif]

Okay, it has been done.

Mark Tardif
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Hicks" <danjhicks at yahoo.com>
To: "'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 9:20 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] FW: Need Comments To Access Board In A Hurry


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> 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)."
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>
>
> 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:
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>
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> http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/refresh/draft-rule.htm
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>
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> Whatever you do, it needs to be done by midnight, Monday, June 21.
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>
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> Thank you.
>
>
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
>
>
> Curtis Chong, President
>
> National Federation of the Blind in Computer Science
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