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ACB Report to the Membership

Melanie Brunson (Executive Director) and Mitch Pomerantz (President) report to the membership

Melanie Brunson, ACB Executive Director, and Mitch Pomerantz, ACB President, report to the general membership in Louisville, Kentucky at the 51st Annual American Council of the Blind Conference and Convention .

ACB Lauds U.S. Congress for Including Accessible Prescription Drug Labeling Language in FDA Bill That Now Moves to the President's Desk

For Immediate Release

ARLINGTON, Va., June 26, 2012 – Blind and visually impaired citizens will gain independent and private access to the information contained on their prescription drug labels as the United States Senate passed S.3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act.

Improve Transportation for People with Disabilities:

Please participate in this short web survey, and encourage others to do so! http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/882523/TransitChoices The Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (DREDF) is conducting research on what factors are most important to riders with disabilities when deciding which transit mode to use. The confidential survey results will be part of a national study called Transit Cooperative Research Project B-40: Strategy Guide to Enable and Promote the Use of Fixed-Route Transit by People with Disabilities.

American Council of the Blind Releases Updated Pedestrian Safety Handbook

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 12, 2011 – Coinciding with an annual nationwide event, White Cane Safety Day, the American Council of the Blind (ACB) today released an updated edition of its Pedestrian Safety Handbook, a publication which informs people who are blind and visually impaired, their families, and others about contemporary approaches to assuring safe paths of travel for blind pedestrians and effective ways to advocate for accommodations like accessible pedestrian signals, tactile warnings at the edges of curb ramps, and mechanisms for routing travelers safely through problematic intersections.

American Council of the Blind Denounces the Introduction of Amazon’s Inaccessible Kindle Fire

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 4, 2011 – Last week when Amazon introduced the Kindle Fire, it marked yet another product offering that the blind community will not be able to use. Mitch Pomerantz, president of the American Council of the Blind (ACB), said, “I had expected that, unlike previous releases of Kindle devices, Amazon would have included accessibility to Kindle Fire for people with disabilities right from its design phase given the accessibility that has been included in similar products that are on the market. Amazon’s blatant disregard for the blind consumer demonstrates a profound arrogance and represents technological discrimination against our community.”

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