[nfbmi-talk] common problem with cros here too

joe harcz Comcast joeharcz at comcast.net
Mon Jan 27 21:03:39 UTC 2014


Actually as far as I'm concerned they are jeopardizing their Section 509 
funding.

And if they don't get off the dime I'll make sure of that if it is the last 
thing I do.

Joe
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From: "Terry D. Eagle" <terrydeagle at yahoo.com>
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> MPAS shall continue to do business-as-usual with respect to documented and
> presented systematic and individual discrimination--ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! 
> Do
> Do you really expect MPAS to jeopardize their funding by doing the 
> correct,
> just, and legal action?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of joe
> harcz Comcast
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:02 AM
> To: Elmer Cerano MPAS
> Cc: BRIAN SABOURIN; MARK CODY; MARK MCWILLIAMS MPAS; nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] common problem with cros here too
>
> Blind folks have had similar and even worse issues in receiving
> accommodations from the likes of Peckham, Goodwill and others here. But 
> then
> again we don't get information in alternate format from BSBP.
>
> Now what is MPAS going to do about these long standing documented issues?
>
> Joe Harcz
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> Source:
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> http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2014/01/agency_for_disabled_sued_over
> _blind_employees_claim_of_disability_discrimination.html
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> Blind employee sues Syracuse agency for disabled, claims disability
> discrimination (video) | syracuse.com
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> Blind employee sues Syracuse agency for disabled, claims disability
> discrimination (video)
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> Christine Delay, who's blind, is suing her employer, Arc of Onondaga,
> claiming the agency violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by 
> refusing
> to provide
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> her with a computer software program that allows her to read her screen as
> she had been doing for more than 20 years. (John O'Brien |
> jobrien at syracuse.com)
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> SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Arc of Onondaga promotes its advocacy for disabled people
> with this motto: "Turning disabilities into abilities."
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> But one of its own employees says the agency turned her disability into a
> greater hardship, and she's suing Arc in federal court.
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> Christine Delay says
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> Arc of Onondaga
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> violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by refusing to accommodate 
> her
> blindness starting in 2009, after the agency decided to buy a new 
> electronic
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> file system for its computers.
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> She raised concerns that the new program wasn't compatible with a software
> program she uses to read computer screens, in which a computerized voice
> reads
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> the words on the screen aloud.
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> "I tried to muddle through," Delay said in a recent interview. "But there
> were lots of things I could no longer do." At the time, she was a
> rehabilitation
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> supervisor.
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> Christine Delay sues Arc of Onondaga
>
> Christine Delay, who's blind, is suing her employer, Arc of Onondaga,
> claiming the agency for disabled people refused to accommodate her
> disability.
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> Part of the problem was that the new program required her to use a mouse.
> But she can't see the cursor, so she's unable to use the mouse.
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> Delay said she raised her concerns with her supervisor, Kristen Morey, and
> with Stanfort Perry, then the agency's chief executive officer. When the
> problem
>
> persisted, she hired a lawyer, Rick Guy, who wrote to Arc and asked that 
> the
> agency cooperate with Delay.
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>
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> Instead of resolving the problem with new software, her supervisors
> retaliated, Delay says.
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> They had her sit through three 90-minute training sessions about the
> computer program they'd bought, she said.
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> The training was useless because of her blindness, she said: It consisted 
> of
> her sitting through videos that she could not see.
>
>
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> "I said to them, 'If we're going to do this, why don't you guys turn the
> screen off so you can watch it like I am,'" Delay said. "They laughed."
>
>
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> In her lawsuit, filed last month in U.S. District Court, she alleged that
> Arc of Onondaga demoted her and cut her pay by 25 percent after she
> requested
>
> a reasonable accommodation with an adaptive software program. She was
> demoted to vocational counselor specialist.
>
>
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> Delay's lawsuit also described the video training as cruel and said it
> caused her "substantial humiliation and embarrassment because of her
> disability."
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> The lawsuit names Arc of Onondaga, Perry and Morey as defendants, along 
> with
> New York state Arc.
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>
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> Perry is now director of Arc in another area, said Ellen Gutmaker, Arc of
> Onondaga's new chief executive officer.
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> "Arc of Onondaga has historically treated all of its employees 
> respectfully,
> in compliance with federal and state law," Gutmaker said this week. "The
> agency's
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> committed to furthering the rights of all individuals with disabilities."
>
>
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> She would not comment on the specific allegations in the lawsuit.
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>
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> Delay, 54, accused Perry of being biased against her because of her
> disability even before the computer software problem. In 2008, she was
> disciplined for
>
> not noticing that one of Arc's clients had a cut on his or her finger, the
> lawsuit said.
>
>
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> Because of her blindness, Delay could not possibly have seen the cut, she
> said. And reporting such matters was not part of her job description, she
> said.
>
>
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> Contact John O'Brien at
>
> jobrien at syracuse.com
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> or 315-470-2187.
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