The message showed up in my e-mail in box seven times within the space of an hour and a half. Now, it's true that I am a member of lots of e-mail list-servs or "message boards," as some call them, but even for me, to receive the same message seven times within a couple of hours, and from...
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PennyRdr
on 10-22-2009
Filed under: American Council of the Blind, ACB, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, U. S. Department of the Treasury, Kurzweil, iBill Talking Banknote Identifier, paper-currency identifier, Orbit Research, portable money identifier, OpenBook
via Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology June 29, 2009 COAT Applauds Representative Markey for Introducing the 'Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009' WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Coalition of Organizations for Accessible...
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BusyBee
on 08-03-2009
Filed under: AAPD, people with disabilities, inclusion, AFB, American Foundation for the Blind, captioning, accessible user interfaces, accessible telephone and television systems, digital technologies, ACB, Karen Peltz Strauss, communications technologies, NAD, Rosaline Crawford, the Twenty-first Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009, Eric Bridges, communications access, American Association of People with Disabilities, American Council of the Blind, CSD, H.R. 3101, COAT, video description, National Association of the Deaf, receiving emergency alerts, hearing aid compatible telephone products, Mark Richert, Jenifer Simpson, Representative Edward Markey, enforcement measures for accessibility, Coalition of Organizations for Accessible Technology, telecommunications access, real-time text digital standard, new broadband and Internet technologies, Communication Service for the Deaf, access to text messaging
The major blindness organizations, the ones whose membership consists largely of people who are actually blind and visually impaired themselves, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), and Darrell Shandrow, a university student who is blind, are suing Arizona...
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PennyRdr
on 07-01-2009
Filed under: American Council of the Blind, ADA, Section 504, ACB, Kindle 2, Amazon.com, discrimination, Americans with Disabilities Act, lawsuit, e-book reader, National Federation of the Blind, Darrell Shandrow, textbooks, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Department of Justice, Department of Education, Reed College, Reading Rights Coalition, Civil Rights Division, Pace University, inaccessible, text-to-speech capability, Arizona State University, Princeton University, ASU, Kindle DX, NFB, Case Western Reserve University, University of Virginia's Darden School of Business
In March, I attended a multi-day meeting of a committee which meets annually to advise the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) concerning equipment, distribution of books and other reading materials in alternate formats, and the most efficient ways to get materials...
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PennyRdr
on 05-01-2009
Filed under: American Council of the Blind, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, ACB, NLS, blind, Barry Levine, free exchange of information, Winter Park, accessible world, Functional Therapy, access issues, downhill skiing, ACB annual convention, National, condolence, Colorado