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From: Carl Jarvis 
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Subject: [Wcb-l] Article from Indian news source


Subject: [Wcb-l] Article from Indian news source


President Obama on Friday named a visually impaired Indian-American to an independent US agency devoted to easing the hard life for people with disabilities, continuing a half-century old American drive to improve nation-wide access for the physically challenged.

The White House notified that Sachin Dev Pavithran, program director of the Utah Assistive Technology Program at Utah State University's Center for Persons with Disabilities, will soon become a member of the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board.


The agency, known simply as the Access Board, was created in 1973 to ensure design standards across the US to enable access to the physically impaired.

The Access Board and the laws that led to its creation is the reason why sidewalks across America have become wheelchair-friendly, parking spots closest to entrances and exits are reserved for the physically challenged, and the disabled and handicapped have easy access to metros, subways, ATMs etc though specially-designed ramps and elevators.

Pavitran has over a decade of experience as a disability policy analyst and consultant, and is among the group that drives developing of and training in assistive technologies. Blind himself, he has served on the research and development committee of the National Federation of the Blind.




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