[Nfbmt] I'm back from convention

[sheila leigland]

welcome back. I'm glad it was such an interesting convention.

On 7/7/2016 9:51 AM, Breslauers via Nfbmt wrote:
> We arrived back home after midnight last night.
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> As you can well imagine, it was wall to wall from nine in the morning and
> sometimes earlier till ten at night.  Time was when the National convention
> schedule consisted of three or four pages; now it is 117 in Braille.  A lot
> of good stuff happened at the convention.  I hope many of you got to catch
> the presentations streaming online; some of them were stellar and very
> exciting.  The artificial barrier of subminimum wages is starting to come
> down in more and more places.  Technology has come a long way since the
> Braille N" Speak and the beginning of the Internet.  The careers that blind
> students are pursuing in math and science now are careers I wouldn't have
> dreamed of, and would have considered off limits if I had.  The future is
> brighter than it has ever been for the blind, and it is largely because of
> the NFB and the ideas and dreams we have for each other and for the blind of
> the world, and the love, hope, and determination we have to see those dreams
> become reality.
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> One of my biggest dreams as a child was to be able to pick up any piece of
> paper or anything in print and know what it says.  Now I can, with the use of
> scanners and even the KNFB reader.  I can even read the contents in Braille
> if I so choose, by using a Braille display.  Speaking of Braille displays,
> the NFB is coming out with one, hopefully in October, that will be a 20-cell
> Braille display for under five hundred dollars.  Most current Braille
> displays cost substantially more than that, and as such are cost prohibitive
> for the average individual.  Some have features you may never use, but are
> paying for anyway.  For something with modest features and a modest price,
> the new NFB Orbit fits the bill.
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> Another dream I had as a child was to be able to drive, and even that is
> something that is not out of my reach now.
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> Here are a couple of new things to consider.
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> Submit Your Title II SANPRM Comments
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> The NFB is gathering member comments regarding the importance of accessible
> websites in response to the US Department of Justice's consideration of
> adopting
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> specific technical standards for website accessibility under Title II of the
> ADA. We need your stories, both positive and negative, regarding the
> importance
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> of accessible state and local government websites. Submit them before July
> 15, 2016, via
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> https://nfb.org/titleiisanprm.
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> NFB-NEWSLINER to Feature Walmart Ads
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> The National Federation of the Blind is working with Walmart to offer the
> retailer's ads on NFB-NEWSLINER, our audio information service for the blind
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> and print disabled.  For more information about this service, please read our
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> press release.
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> These exciting times are why we blind band together in chapters and state
> affiliates of the National Federation of the Blind to raise our concerns and
> get things done that matter to us.  Now I'm looking forward to our state
> convention in Billings in October to bring the same excitement to the blind
> of Montana and to build our dreams into reality so we can live the lives we
> want.
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>
>
> Joy Breslauer, President
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> National Federation of the Blind of Montana
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SHEILA