[Nfbnet-members-list] Video on ACCC Protest

[Freeh, Jessica]

Dear Fellow Federationists:

Please take a moment to view and share this video about our recent 
protest at Atlantic Cape Community College. Members of the National 
Federation of the Blind and its New Jersey affiliate held a protest 
at the Mays Landing campus of Atlantic Cape Community College (ACCC) 
on Thursday, April 17, 2014. The protest was held to combat 
discrimination by ACCC against Anthony Lanzilotti, a blind student 
studying criminal justice and cyber-security there. Mr. Lanzilotti 
has been denied even the most basic accommodations and at times has 
not been allowed on campus or to use campus facilities unless he is 
accompanied by a sighted person. He has also been prohibited from 
using campus laboratories because ACCC claims that this violates the 
fire code. ACCC has also refused to procure or create accessible 
copies of Mr. Lanzilotti's textbooks and course materials, a service 
routinely provided to blind students by other colleges and 
universities. If he wants his print textbooks to be scanned and 
converted to electronic files that can be read aloud by 
text-to-speech software or on a Braille display, he must do the 
scanning himself, and he cannot use campus facilities to do so unless 
he meets the requirement of having a sighted person with him. See the 
video by following this link: 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSZNsM0n9g>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJSZNsM0n9g

Be sure to share this video with your friends, family, and other NFB 
supporters via e-mail and your preferred social networking platforms.

Sincerely,

Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
National Federation of the Blind

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