[nfbmi-talk] sure hope it's made accessable

[Terry D. Eagle]

Come now Dave, do you really think, even for a split second, that the
Elected Operators' Committee, the Bureau counselors, trainers like McVette,
BEP management, or the blind Bureau director is at all concerned with
accommodating the accessibility to blind persons?  That concept and reality
of compliance with the law is too novel to all of them?  That is why you are
no longer employed by the agyency allegedly serving the needs of blind
people being independent and competing equally with the sighted of society.
That is also why qualified blind persons with the attitude and philosophy of
equality, opportunity, and independence security are not employed by the
Bureau.  The state and Bureau are pround of 19 percent of their employees
only being blind, qualified by their personal agendas and drinking the
poisonous Kool-Aid, the kills the spirit that the blind can do anything
other than be taken care of by the state and federal welfare system.  The
only security the agency and administration management believes in and has
faith is the security of Social Security Supplemental Security welfare
entitlement!  They simply do not hold an abiding belief in  the blind
persons' equal access and opportunity!  Of course, I realize I am talking
with choir members here. 

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of David
Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] sure hope it's made accessable

Joe, 

   We should not only hope it is accessible, but instist that it is.  We
have suffered with lack of information on vending machines for decades,and I
do not believe that they are even thinking of us when they try to reach
solutions.  Even the BEP vendors, who must be legally blined to be in the
program, don't even bother to try to get information to the blind.  I
remember trying to have the vending at the training center accessible for
those at the training center and guests,and that was never kept current.  It
is a problem I admit, but no one even seems to want to try to resolve it as
we are viewed as second class citizens and have no real value in our
society. 

Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbmi-talk [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of joe
harcz Comcast
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 7:19 AM
To: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [nfbmi-talk] sure hope it's made accessable

No matter what people think of this requirement it is important for we who
are blind to require equal access to this information. Bottom line is if
information is deemed significant for the sighted world then it is
significant for us too. Access is indeed a civil right.

Joe
Vending machines to add nutrition data . CONCORD, N.H. - Office workers in
search of snacks will be counting calories along with their change under new

labeling regulations for vending machines included in President Obama's
health-care law. Requiring calorie information to be displayed on roughly 5
million

vending machines nationwide will help consumers make healthier choices, said
officials at the Food and Drug Administration, which is expected to release

final rules early next year. The FDA estimates the cost to the vending
industry at $25.8 million initially and $24 million per year after that but
says

if just 0.02 percent of obese adults ate 100 fewer calories a week, the
savings to the health-care system would be at least that great. The rules
will

apply to about 10,800 companies that operate 20 or more machines. While the
proposed rules would give companies a year to comply, an industry group has

suggested a two-year deadline and is urging the government to allow as much
flexibility as possible in implementing the rules. Some companies may use
electronic

displays to post calorie counts while others may opt for signs stuck to the
machines. - Associated Press 

 
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