[gui-talk] Comments Urgently Needed

[Sherri]

I totally agree!
Sherri
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Baracco, Andrew W" <Andrew.Baracco at va.gov>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Comments Urgently Needed


> It is neat that both major consumer organizations of the blind are
> supporting this endeavor.
>
> Andy
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Curtis Chong
> Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:30 AM
> To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [gui-talk] Comments Urgently Needed
> Importance: High
>
> 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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