[blindlaw] Fwd: [Nabs-presidents] AHEAD's E-Text SolutionsGroupPerspective on the Issu...

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Jim and listers,

    Now if the DSS Offices would go a step farther and express the view that
blind students needing textbooks in alternative media shouldn't be forced to
obtain such books strictly from DSS Offices, and that we should be able to
order them directly from the publisher without the need for a third party to
be involved. How neat it would be to pay for a textbook and then request it
in a medium accessible by a blind reader no DSS required.

Peter Donahue
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "McCarthy, Jim" <JMcCarthy at nfb.org>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
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Ronza,
I couldn't agree with you more!  The AHEAD paper is well thought out and
a positive step, I think, as we fight to assure access for students to
materials used in their higher education endeavors.

The NFB is committed to addressing this issue.  In our Washington
Seminar, we have included higher ed access proposals in each of the last
two years, and once again expect to do so.  I am glad that AHEAD (the
DSS offices for the most part at institutions of higher education have
finally really weighed in and publicly said that their students have a
right to accessible material and that they (as institutions with
disabled students) have an obligation to assure that it is provided.

Ronza is right about the logical well-crafted arguments in this paper.
Thanks for sharing with the rest of this list.
**
James McCarthy
Director of Governmental affairs
National Federation of the Blind
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore MD 21230
Phone: 410-659-9314 Extension 2240
Fax: 410-685-5653
Email: jmccarthy at nfb.org
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Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 12:53 AM
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Subject: [blindlaw] Fwd: [Nabs-presidents] AHEAD's E-Text Solutions
GroupPerspective on the Issu...

I'm forwarding an email I got on another list.  It concerns access to
educational materials at the post-secondary level.  The position paper
the  message references is quite well-drafted.  This is an issue many of
the  student organizations hope the NFB will address at Washington
Seminar.  In  any event, I'm asking you each to consider how we can get
similar legislation  passed in our individual states.  Bottom line:
college students need to be  able to get their textbooks promptly in a
format they can use, and the law needs  to make that happen.

Regards,
Ronza

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