[Nfbf-l] NFB of Florida EZTellum web pagel

[Dan Hicks]

Hi Arnold,

This is really nice work. I am sure you won't mind if I link to it from the 
NFB of Florida site, as the Legislative page. The old page is quite out of 
date, anyway.

The one change that needs to be made -- and this is my fault, because you 
got your information from the NFBF site -- is that Betty McNally is the 
Legislative Chairperson. The best e-mail address for her is 
bethmac at bellsouth.net, until I get all of the e-mail addresses migrated and 
reassigned.

Thanks for all of your hard work.

Dan


"If you want to go quickly, go alone.
 If you want to go far, go together."
                        - African Proverb


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arnold Bailey" <arnoldbail at gmail.com>
To: "NFB of Florida Listserv" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 1:04 PM
Subject: [Nfbf-l] NFB of Florida EZTellum web pagel


> Hi all,
>
> I've just completed a web page which lists the Legislative alerts sent out
> by the Florida NFB and the national NFB. There are links to the  detail of
> the alerts. What makes this page unique(and hopefully helpful) is that the
> viewer can enter his/her zip code and then the federal senator and
> congressman and the Florida state senator and representative will be 
> listed
> along with their: district number, email address, their website URL and
> their phone number.
>
> This should really make it easy to encourage NFB members to contact their
> legislator. In fact, I called it the "NFB of Florida EZTellum" page.
> Currently, it takes hours for individuals to look up this information.
> Sometimes, never finding it.
>
> This is more or less a "proof of concept" since I retrieved all the
> information via a technique called "data  drilling" into the Florida state
> Senate and House websites.
>
> One important point is that besides being a useful tool is, that I'm
> visually impaired and I had absolutely no problem creating the 
> application.
> A person who is totally without sight could do it equally as well.
> Programming is definitely where a blind person can not only be lucratively
> employed; but, also excel and out perform sighted programmers.
>
> The NFB of Florida EZTellum page is at 
> http://www.blind411.org/EZtellum.asp
>
> I appreciate any comments/feedback, positive or negative, that you may 
> have.
> Also, if you know of any students who may have an interest in computer
> programming, please encourage them to contact me. I'm currently looking 
> into
> some Web 2.0 stuff, which EZTellum is an example. I'm sure there are many
> new applications that can be developed to learn and develop an interest in
> programming.
>
> Arnold
> http://www.blind411.org/
> http://www.blind411.org/EZtellum.asp
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