[Nfbf-l] National Federation of the Blind Collaborates with AccuWeather®

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National Federation of the Blind Collaborates with
AccuWeather® to Provide
Emergency Weather Alert Information
to the Blind and Print-Disabled via NFB-NEWSLINE®
Baltimore, Maryland (August 29, 2012): The National Federation of the Blind 
(NFB), the oldest and largest nationwide organization of the blind in the 
United States, and its newspaper service for the blind, NFB-NEWSLINE®, today 
announced a collaboration with AccuWeather®, an online weather information 
service, to provide emergency weather alerts to blind and print-disabled 
subscribers throughout America.  NFB-NEWSLINE® is a free audible information 
access service that provides over three-hundred newspapers and magazines to 
the blind.  The AccuWeather® information service will be offered on 
NFB-NEWSLINE®, giving blind and print-disabled people instant access to 
emergency weather alerts.

Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) 
said: "The lack of access to emergency weather alerts has been a persistent 
problem for the blind, and now with the combination of AccuWeather® alerts 
and NFB-NEWSLINE®, an innovative source of this critical information has 
been created for the blind of America.  With the inclusion of the 
AccuWeather® information service, NFB-NEWSLINE® continues to be on the 
cutting edge in providing independent access to much-needed information to 
the blind of America."

Scott White, the director of NFB-NEWSLINE®, said: "We are excited to be the 
first to bring this revolutionary independent access to emergency weather 
information to the blind through our NFB-NEWSLINE® service.  Until this 
point, the blind of America did not have instant access to emergency weather 
alerts.   It was necessary for blind persons to rely on friends or family 
members to read the weather alert text being scrolled across the bottom of 
their television screens."

NFB-NEWSLINE® subscriber David Denotaris said: "For the first time I am able 
to easily gain access to emergency weather service alerts by making a phone 
call.  With the addition of the AccuWeather® alerts on NFB-NEWSLINE®, I can 
access the information that I need to keep my family safe.  To this day, the 
alert systems available on television are not accessible to the blind, but 
now with the AccuWeather® emergency warning system on NFB-NEWSLINE®, I will 
have the same information and at the same time as my sighted co-workers, 
neighbors, and peers."

NFB-NEWSLINE® is a free audible newspaper and magazine reading service that 
provides information to blind and print-disabled readers over the telephone, 
online, and on the iPhone.  For more information or to register for 
NFB-NEWSLINE® visit www.nfbnewsline.org, write to nfbnewsline at nfb.org, or 
call 1- 866-504-7300.