[Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed

[Sherri]

I just e-mailed my comments.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sherrill O'Brien" <sherrill.obrien at verizon.net>
To: "NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List" <nfbf-l at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org]On
> Behalf Of Kathy Davis
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 1:24 PM
> To: 'NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed
>
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbf-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of REPCODDS at aol.com
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:22 AM
> To: nfbf-l at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfbf-l] Comments Urgently Needed
>
> 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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