[nFBMI-Talk] It's Only A Day Away: Official Details Of 2018 BEET Conference

[Fred Olver]

You want to know what you can do? I’ll tell you what you can do. You can draft a resolution or you can put together a bill to send to your state legislatures or you can send one to Congress as well what is Bill needs to say is that the government needs to mandate software accessibility across the board for all companies developing software in the United States that will work with both large print enlarging software and talking software/screen reading programs. After a long time in the workaday world it is my considered opinion that unless this is done no significant changes will occur with regard to employment and accessibility. Unless you do this or somebody does it at some point in time the employment rate among blind people will continue to shrink as the population decreases so will the employment sorry, but I think this is the absolute truth. Fred Olver

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> On Apr 12, 2018, at 7:43 AM, Kane Brolin via NFBMI-Talk <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> About 24 hours from now, we're gathering in Goshen, Indiana, for the
> 3rd annual conference: the Blind in Education, Employment, and
> Technology.
> 
> We still are looking for new participants interested in attending,
> both for the sake of tomorrow's conference and in anticipation of what
> we all can do together afterward to improve the future for those who
> live with visual impairment in Northern Indiana and Southwestern
> Michigan, as many prepare to transition successfully through
> educational institutions and into competitively-paying employment.
> 
> Attached, you will find the official flier representing this year's
> BEET Conference, which contains a detailed agenda and speakers'
> biographies.  We will bring ink-print copies tomorrow.  I realize this
> will not help those of us who are blind.  But the version attached to
> this e-mail is an accessible PDF which should be easily legible by
> those who use text-to-speech screen access, a refreshable Braille
> display, or a notetaker such as the BrailleNote or Braille Edge.
> 
> Unfortunately, NFB Michiana does not have good facilities for the
> embossing of professional-grade Braille documents on paper.  If anyone
> out there is able to do this quickly and efficiently today, we can get
> you this flier in a form that would lend itself to Braille translation
> and embossing through Duxbury if you would like to undertake such a
> project prior to coming out for the BEET Conference.  Sorry about the
> lack of printed Braille; this is one key gap we at NFB Michiana and
> Goshen College would love to close, and we likely will do so as soon
> as our membership and funding have reached a critical mass to permit
> us to purchase the equipment.
> 
> We look forward to an awesome event, which will result in hope and
> life enrichment for many.  See you at 8:30 AM Friday at College
> Mennonite Church in Goshen, Indiana.
> 
> Warm regards,
> 
> Kane Brolin, President
> Michiana Chapter, National Federation of the Blind
> (574)386-8868 (mobile)
> <BEET_Conference_Official_Program_Spring_2018.pdf>
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