[Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed

[Sherrill O'Brien]

And I just made a phone call.  These kiosks will proliferate to the point
where we will truly be left behind.  A couple years ago I was trying to get
a shuttle to go to one of our conventions, and I was supposed to use this
touch screen to confirm that I was indeed there.  It took over half an hour,
trying to contact someone by phone, to get my transportation.  Now instead
of taking seconds to check in at the airport, including paying for checked
bags, we're stuck in a line, having to ask for help from busy employees.  My
point?  Please contact these folks so they know there are lots of us out
here who need this latest annoying inaccessible stuff to be accessible to
the blind.  There's always strength in our collective NFB voice!!  Let's
help make it happen.  Please pass this email along to your friends who
aren't on this list.

Sherrill

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Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:24 PM
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I just sent my e-mail too, Dwight. It is so very important that NFBF members
contact Mr. Creagan and make their feelings known.

Kathy


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It's done.
Dwight


In a message dated 6/18/2010 5:38:07 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
curtischong at earthlink.net writes:

Greetings and felicitations:

I am writing to ask for your  help to influence the U.S. Access Board as it
considers proposed  amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.  In
particular, the  Access Board is proposing to deal with access to
self-service machines  "used for ticketing, check-in or check-out, seat
selection, boarding  passes, or ordering food in restaurants and cafeterias
(220.2)."

In  addition to explicitly excluding drive-up only self-service machines,
the  proposed amendments will not require electronic information kiosks to
be  accessible.

If you would like to help, please call or email the Access  Board before
midnight Monday, June 21, with a message saying that the ADA Accessibility
guidelines need to include information kiosks as well as  drive-up only
self-service machines.  Your message does not need to  be very long.  It
just needs to make the point that you want the Board to include
accessibility to information kiosks and drive-up only  self-service machines
in amendments to the ADA Accessibility Guidelines.

You can call and leave a voice mail or send an email to Tim  Creagan, the
Access Board staff member who is taking comments on the  proposed rule
modifications.  The number to call is 202-272-0016, and  Tim Creagan's email
address is creagan at access-board.gov.

For any of  you who care to conduct extensive research into this issue, the
proposed  rule changes can be found at this  link:

http://www.access-board.gov/sec508/refresh/draft-rule.htm

Whatever  you do, it needs to be done by midnight, Monday, June 21.

Thank  you.

Yours sincerely

Curtis Chong, Chairman
Committee on  Research and Development
National Federation of the Blind



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