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The Independence Comes from Us—There is Nothing Artificial About Our Intelligence
We live in a time where artificial intelligence is changing systems and shattering expectations in ways that humans have never before experienced. Blind people can use artificial intelligence tools to describe photographs, recognize text, answer questions about our surroundings, develop workarounds when we encounter inaccessible content, create tactile images, develop spatial intelligence for future travel, and dozens of other specific uses that previously were not independently available to us.
DOJ Delay Of ADA Web Rule Undermines Equal Access
By Mark Riccobono and Eve Hill ( April 23, 2026, 2:46 PM EDT) -- The bipartisan Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law in 1990 by President George H.W. Bush, has existed nearly as long as the internet. Since its enactment, which Bush touted as his greatest achievement, government entities — specifically state and local governments — have moved online.... Law360 is on it, so you are, too.
OPINION: Web access and accessibility: A fruitful shared history in serious jeopardy
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has existed nearly as long as the Internet. Since the 1990s, governments—specifically state and local government entities—have moved online. Applying for benefits, getting an education, paying taxes, accessing public records, and participating in civic life increasingly happens through websites and mobile apps. For Americans with disabilities, the ADA promises that those digital doors should be open to them.
From the President’s Desk: The Federation Shares Pressing Concerns with Vispero’s CEO
One of the responsibilities I have as President of the National Federation of the Blind is to develop relationships with the executives of organizations and corporations whose work has an effect on blind people. Sometimes these are within the blindness field, but often they are companies who do not regularly work with blind people. Vispero is one of the major companies within the blindness field whose products have a wide reach and whose relationship with the community of blind people is critical.
Scholarship Essay from Former Winner Cole Carper
While most people think of being blind as some kind of tragedy, I don’t always see it that way. My name is Cole Carper, and I have been legally blind since birth. I attended Arkansas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired until third grade, when I transferred to public school. After I learned basic skills, my parents felt it was best that I attend a traditional school that represented the real world. I now know this was the right move for me.
BRAILLE MONITOR Vol 67 No 11 December 2024
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Rideshare Advocacy on Unlawful Implementation of Self-Identification
In follow up to the National Federation of the Blind Rideshare Rally, President Mark Riccobono sent the following correspondence on October 31, 2024, to Uber regarding the implementation of self-identification.
Getting out the Vote in Oregon
Over the years, the National Federation of the Blind of Oregon has pursued a mix of legislative priorities in the state related to vocational rehabilitation (VR), the Blind Enterprise Program (BEP), and more. BEP is a federally authorized program that trains eligible, legally blind entrepreneurs to manage food, vending, and other business services in federal and state office buildings and properties. Nevertheless, there is still work to be done.
Why do some voting advocates fight equal access for the blind?
Americans with disabilities are now the , yet when it comes to voting rights, we are treated as second-class citizens, excluded from the right to vote independently and privately in most states. To make matters worse, groups like the Brennan Center for Justice, Common Cause, and Free Speech for People seem to want things to stay that way.
Changing the world one ballot at a time Original
In his 1988 children’s novel “Matilda,” celebrated author Roald Dahl penned the line “Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.” When applied to voting, this sentiment becomes doubly relevant. To have the power to change the world, we must first have the power to make our voices heard through a ballot. For many blind Americans, making our voice heard presents its own set of unique challenges. The For the People Act (S.
Don't exclude the blind from the benefits of AV technology
On Jan. 29, 2011, I was honored to represent the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) by independently driving a modified Ford Escape hybrid on a section of the Daytona International Speedway. I navigated the course’s turns, avoided obstacles that were deliberately placed in my path, and passed another moving vehicle without incident. Responding to the NFB Blind Driver Challenge, a team at Virginia Tech had worked with us to equip the vehicle with cameras, lidar sensors and GPS.
American Nightmare: How workers with disabilities are denied economic prosperity
“Workers paid only a few dollars per hour.” “Disabled workers exploited for profit.” “Employers pay next to nothing for manual labor.” If you read these headlines at the top of your newspaper, would you think you were reading about sweatshops in some distant developing country?
The Senate must act on legislation so Americans can reap the benefits of autonomous vehicles
The myriad benefits of autonomous vehicles (AVs) are remarkable. Beginning with greater independence and enhanced mobility options for those who cannot or do not drive, to dramatically reduced road fatalities and declines in traffic congestion, the autonomous vehicle revolution promises many positive changes across the country and around the world.
Passing the ADA Education and Reform Act would be a step backwards for equality and justice
Exactly twenty-seven years ago, the United States took another in a long series of steps toward actualizing our founding principles of equality and justice for all. On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) became the law of the land. With its signing by President George H.W. Bush came true progress in the fight for equality and opportunity for the nation’s blind.
Saving Medicaid is critical to America’s blind
For more than fifty years Medicaid has provided much-needed security and stability to some of America’s most disempowered people. Especially for people with disabilities, Medicaid has been and remains an essential lifeline. That lifeline is under attack in the form of Draconian cuts proposed by both the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and the current administration’s proposed budget. These cuts would, without exaggeration, upend millions of lives.
Why The National Federation of the Blind decided to partner with Aira – Aira
As the President of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB), the nation’s largest organization of blind people, and a leading developer and proponent of technologies to help blind people live the lives we want, I have the opportunity to engage with many technology developers. It is very rare to come across a technology that is positioned to empower the user with information and take full advantage of the capacity of the individual.
Pump Up The Sound, Regulators Tell Makers Of Electric And Hybrid Cars
Pump Up The Sound, Regulators Tell Makers Of Electric And Hybrid Cars One of the benefits for owners of electric and hybrid cars is that they are quiet. While that is attractive for the driver, it poses a danger to pedestrians. But the U.S. government on Monday finalized new rules requiring so-called "quiet cars" to make alert beeps when traveling at low speeds. The rules apply to hybrid cars and electric cars, trucks, SUVs and buses that weigh less than five tons.
Future Reflections
ISSN-0883-3419 Copyright © 2016 American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults For more information about blindness and children contact: National Organization of Parents of Blind Children 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place, Baltimore, MD 21230 • (410) 659-9314 www.nfb.org/nopbc • [email protected] • LETTER FROM THE EDITOR Unlocking the Impossible by Deborah Kent Stein FEATURE On LEGO, the Pattern of Experience, and Building a Generation of Blind Scientists and Engineers by Mark A.
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