American Council of the Blind Resolutions Index | American Council of the Blind

Encourage the use of proper job titles in all communications about the nationally certified professionals in the field of vision habilitation and rehabilitation, 2019-05

Expresses ACB’s profound objection and disappointment that ACVREP is moving forward with OT certification and training without having offered a formal invitation for ACB and all stakeholders to participate in their stakeholder listening process, 2023-16

Identifies the lack of a single national credential for assistive technology trainers as a significant barrier to competence and quality, and calls upon the Academy for Certification of Vision Rehabilitation and Education Professionals (ACVREP) to promptly develop and offer such a credential, 2015-11

Opposition to the establishment and use of a unifying designation, prefix or title to refer to each of the professional disciplines serving children, working-age adults, or seniors who are blind or visually impaired, 2017-13

ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACB to enter discussions with National Association of Broadcasters, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to establish, in cooperation with ACB, awards concerning audio-described productions, 2005-02

ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACCESS (See Also AIDS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE; BRAILLE; CIVIL RIGHTS, VOTING; COMPUTERS; CONVENTION MATTERS; CURRENCY IDENTIFICATION AND DESIGN; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EDUCATION TESTING SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; HEALTH; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; LIBRARY SERVICES; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; RADIO READING SERVICES; SECTION 504; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEVISION; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

Access to absentee and vote-by-mail ballots, 2018-02

Authorizes the officers, directors, and staff to take all necessary actions to ensure the accessibility of voting equipment and procedures, including a voter verifiable paper audit trail, wherever adopted, 2005-16

Access to airline websites, 2003-01

Access to Apple’s iOS applications, 2011-19

Access to books internationally, 2000-46, 2018-11

Marrakesh Treaty, 2018-11

Access to cell phones, 2007-27

Access to commercial and other advertising, 2018-08

Access to Computers, 90‑07, 2021-09

Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19

Access to documents in accessible formats for federal retirees, 2012-11

Access to educational materials for blind parents who have sighted children, 2007-01

Access to electronic polling books or voter verification systems, 2018-03

Access to instructions and product information for appliances, 2000-04

Access to Intuit Corp.’s software, 2000-02

Access to materials from the Department of State, 99-23

Access to microwaves, low-cost microwave oven, 2015-13

Access to Modern Maturity Magazine, to its blind and visually impaired members in accessible formats, including Braille, large print, audio cassette, e-mail, and computer disk, 2002-03

Access to museums, urges the National Endowment for the Arts and Very Special Arts to fund and disseminate research concerning informational and aesthetic access to museums for blind and visually impaired patrons, 2010-07

Access to Oracle software, and commending Oracle for showing interest in making its products accessible, 2000-09

Access to private, independent vote, 2013-21

Access to Social Security’s, and other federal agencies’, in-person information and benefits kiosks or computerized systems, 2016-07

Ratifies the recommendation of ACB’s board of directors that this organization join as a plaintiff in a lawsuit to be filed against the Social Security Administration concerning the failure of that agency to provide correspondence to people who are blind or visually impaired in accessible formats, 2005-20

Accessibility of Common College Application, 2018-05

Access to Convention Events

Certain exhibitors, 85‑09
Guide dogs, 87‑06
Open meeting policy, 86‑18, 87‑14

Access to Credit Card Usage, 87‑16

Access to Currency, 2014-06

ACB joins with CCLVI in encouraging that any solutions ultimately achieved in terms of accessibility to United States currency, consider both tactile markings or adaptation of currency, and also the placing of enlarged print font denomination numbers on all eight corners of each bill of legal tender, 2007-24

ACB urges the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to rescind the requirement that electronic currency identifiers are only distributed to patrons who affirm their U.S. citizenship in writing, and reiterates ACB’s demand for accessible paper currency, 2015-07

Access to destination elevators, 2007-02

Access to Greyhound’s website, customer services, and affiliated websites, 2015-12

Access to Information

Generally, 78‑07, 88‑10, 91‑08
ACB to work in coalition with AFB and, as appropriate, with other organizations representing people with disabilities, regarding access to information, 2013-11
ACB materials (see Internal Matters)
Achievement and other tests, 77‑02, 80‑15, 90‑05
Adobe PDF, making the accessible document setting the default, 2013-09
AIDS information, 88‑23

Airports and other terminals, arrival/departure information, 78‑07

ACB urges the Department of Transportation, in its final rule implementing the ACAA, to define service animal in the context of those animals trained to perform physical tasks that mitigate the disabilities of their handlers
Guide dogs on planes, regulations regarding, 2017-05

Amazon’s Disability Customer Support Line and more accurate product descriptions, 2022-15

American Heart Association materials, 91‑01

Amtrak

ACB urges Congress and the President to appropriate funding for Amtrak at a level no less than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year, 2005-21

ACB urges Congress to enact and the President to sign into law S1991, the National Defense Rail Act, and urges Congress to appropriate additional funds to ensure the continued operation and expansion of Amtrak, 2002-08

Antivirus and anti-malware software, 2018-01

Appliances and electronic devices, 2004-22

Asks Google to include accessibility within the design phase of each product’s development and implement accessibility from the beginning of each product cycle, 2010-12

Assistive technology low-interest loan programs, 2016-12

Banking services, standards, 86‑07

Directs ACB’s officers, directors and staff to work through a coalition of organizations of and for the blind to create and implement a training infrastructure that will enable people who are blind or visually impaired to learn how to bank and shop more independently, 2005-27

Boy Scouts of America, 91‑28

Braille as ineffective in certain cases, 91‑08

Braille signage in hotels, 2016-16

Broadband benefit program, 2021-24

Campfire, Inc., 91‑28

Community block grant materials, 78‑07

Computer‑related materials, 83‑13

CSUN presentations, 2021-23

Descriptive Video Service, 88‑16

Diabetic/medical equipment, 2016-13, 2019-07

Diabetes Forecast (with advertising), 84‑17

Directs ACB to initiate and participate in discussions with legislators and healthcare administrators concerning the establishment of paperless health care record systems so as to ensure that their designs will enable consumers who are blind and visually impaired to have equal access to such systems, 2007-04

Distance learning, colleges and universities who are currently utilizing Blackboard Learning Management Systems which are inaccessible are hereby urged to replace this software with distance learning tools which will work with screen readers and screen magnification, 2009-14

Directs NLS to make large-print books available to people with residual vision, 2023-09

Documentation for assistive technology products, 91‑09

Emergency exit and oxygen information, airlines, 85‑24

Emergency messages on television, 78‑06, 87‑28, 91‑02

Encourage IDE developers to ensure programmers who are blind or visually impaired can access all portions of the development environment with the same rapidity and fluidity as their sighted peers, 2011-11

Environmental information, 90‑09

Accessible paths through parking lots, 2013-15
Accessible/Audible Pedestrian Signals, 98-13, 99-02, 99-25, 2010-01, 2017-24
Advocacy efforts for accessible kiosks, 2017-23
Access to airport kiosks, 2008-11
Access to kiosks at micromarkets, 2017-06
Audible countdown features, research concerning best practices, 2016-17
Expression of support for accessible kiosks, 95-19
Fax reader services, 94-08

To ask Facebook to refine its automated picture description mechanism to create descriptions which contain specific details of pictorial elements, and to develop a mechanism to prompt Facebook members who post pictures and other visual media to attach accompanying descriptions, 2016-19

Facebook, requests the company take prompt steps to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 developed by the World Wide Web Consortium in order to make its website accessible, 2010-21

Federal equivalency diploma exam in Spanish, 80‑15

Federal grants in aid, State rules, regulations and plans, 62‑14, 78‑07

Freestyle vending machine technology to include accessibility elements, 2016-18

Girl Scouts of USA, 91‑28

Hotels with audible message retrieval, 87‑27

Incandescent light bulbs, 2011-21

Independent living centers, compliance indicators, 89‑21

Information Access Committee

ACB condemns RFB&D’s practice of requiring installation of an authorization key at RFB&D headquarters in order to access its reading materials, 2005-04

ACB directs its Information Access Committee to expeditiously investigate this vitally important television broadcasting and telecommunications issue and provide a report, including recommended actions, to the ACB Board of Directors by the date of the 2006 mid‑year board meeting, 2005-34

ACB intends to wage a national information campaign aimed at government entities, 2000-03

ACB to engage in discussion with RFB&D to immediately institute changes in the User Authentication Key purchasing policies such that members can download and install the UAK at the time of purchase, 2008-03

ACB to form alliances with other disability-related organizations, industry and government agencies to establish an effective means of monitoring compliance with Section 508; provide expertise and resources that will facilitate an understanding of how to make technology and information accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired; and take all actions necessary to guarantee that Section 508 is implemented promptly and effectively, including advocating for systems to ensure reliable independent testing and verification that Section 508 compliance has been achieved prior to a federal agency’s acquiring any and all electronic and information technology, 2002-02

Commends the limited, but growing, number of utility companies offering billing in alternate formats, 99-38

Directs the president of the American Council of the Blind to prepare a document for ACB’s information access committee outlining the current problems of creating e-books that are fully accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-28

Requests the Information Access Committee to consult with product manufactures and other entities regarding the provision of accessible product manuals, 99-37

IRS forms, 85‑14, 94-05

JetBlue, access to website and request for a toll-free telephone alternative for those who don’t have the Internet, 2008-04

Kindle 2, which has large print and text-to-speech built in, 2009-16

Medical information

Electronic medical records, telehealth technologies, and health exchange and other related web sites are fully accessible to and usable by people with disabilities, 2011-10

Medicare information in alternate formats, 2014-13

Accessible format versions of the Medicare open enrollment packet for recipients who are blind or have low vision at the same time as these materials are available for others, 2012-01

Medicines and dangerous substances, labeling, 82‑15, 2017-15, 2021-07

Military, making a career in the military as a reservist, at least, available to individuals who are blind or have low vision and have demonstrated their competence, 2012-08

Misrepresentation of service animals, 2014-01

Mobile applications for those with low vision, 2015-10, 2020-06

Music-related software from Native Instruments, and where appropriate, other developers and manufacturers of music and sound-related software, 2009-11

National Accreditation Council Standards, etc., 78‑15

National Library Service database, 89‑14

National youth organizations, 91‑28

National Parks, 2009-13

Netflix’s video content, 2011-17

Newspapers for the Blind, Inc. commended, 87‑26

North American central listing service, 90‑11

Point-of-sale devices, 2019-02

ACB strongly encourages encourage retail chains to install keypad PIN‑entry devices so that blind and visually impaired people have equal access to secure and private point‑of‑sale transactions, 2005-12

Prescription Labels, 2011-12, 2018-09

Outrage at the National Council on Disability for failing to carry out a national public awareness initiative regarding accessible prescription labeling, 2015-09

Print materials from Comcast (such as bills, etc.), 2007-28

Printed materials from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 2007-17

Provision of accessible product manuals, 99-37

Product packaging, braille and large print information on, 99-18, 2022-06

Public laws and regulations, 62‑14, 79‑11, 89‑16, 91‑08, 96-28

Public libraries, 94-12, 2018-17

Access to public libraries’ digital collections, 2014-07

Public mass transit, 78‑07, 90‑12

Requesting that transit systems establish clear, written policies for implementing the ADA requirements for making route destination and stop announcements, 2010-04
Supports the immediate installation of Talking Signs in the WMATA system of Washington, D.C. as a model to demonstrate that it is possible to provide, through the use of these signs, travel independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-14

QVC product information, including prices and item numbers, 2010-15

Radio reading services (see RADIO READING SERVICES)

Reading materials worldwide, 2008-09

Recording for the Blind, support for increased funding, 88‑20, 94-29

Restaurant menus, 99-16

Social Security and Supplemental Security Income notices, etc., 88‑09

Sports stadia, 2008-10

Sprint, ACB regards the repeated failure of Sprint to meet even minimal accessibility benchmarks as unconscionable and unacceptable, 2010-20

Supplemental study materials, 87‑04

Support for the TEACH Act, 2013-03

Task force on access to information via computer, 79‑11

Teacher‑oriented materials, 87‑03

Television listings with audio description, 2018-18

Television set-top boxes, 2014-16

Title XX hearings and planning documents, 78‑07

Universal accessibility of household appliances, both large and small, 2007-18

Urges manufacturers of hardware and software designed specifically to be used by people who are blind to make a commitment to provide training materials in hard copy braille upon request, 2010-18

Voter information, 80‑20, 83‑15, 83‑21, 88‑08

Voting machines, 2011-18

Access to Jobs (see EMPLOYMENT; TECHNOLOGY; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION)

Access to National Monuments, Parks, etc., 76‑11

Roosevelt memorial (see Braille), 96-01, 97-01, 97-02, 97-28

Access to Stairs, 95-11

Access to the Telephone Network, 90‑08, 94-09

Access to smartphone-based wayfinding systems, 2020-12
Telephone book information, 89‑17
Text telephones, 92-17
Requests that providers of cellular telephone service make directory assistance available free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-17
Seeking national exemption to 411 charges for people who are blind/visually impaired, 2005-01

Access to Vending Facilities, guide dogs, 94-02

Access to websites and other digital platforms, 2020-01

Accessible formats, development of standards, 93-08

Access to Vending Machines, 2016-18, 2017-18

Advocacy Steering Committee, 2020-01, 2021-07

Air Travel for the Deaf‑Blind, 80‑22

ACCREDITATION (see also AERBVI; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; GUIDE DOGS; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Generally, 86‑27

As Condition of Funding, 81‑09

State of California to allow follow-up and after-care services to be provided to guide dog teams in state without requiring that the instructors who provide such services be licensed in California, 2015-15

Commission On Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, 83‑23

Concept Supported, 81‑09, 83‑23, 84‑27, 86‑15

Financial Support of National Accreditation Council by American Foundation for the Blind, 86‑15

Guide Dog Schools, 81‑01

Low Vision Services, 84‑27

NAC Materials in Accessible Media, 78‑15

ADA

20^th anniversary, commemorating, 2010-08

ACB seeks enactment of legislation which would make the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applicable to the federal courts, 2002-01

ACB supports the ADA and other disability rights legislation, and will participate in Initiative 2000 and the Spirit of ADA Campaign, 2000-11

ACB has drafted a proposed model state law which would provide waiver of the state’s Eleventh Amendment immunity, and compel the state to consent to be sued for money damages in actions brought under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 2001-10

ACB’s officers and staff to take all appropriate and necessary steps to oppose the enactment of H.R. 3590, 2000-27

ACB to petition the U.S. Access Board for research to be undertaken into how people can wayfind successfully through a shared space with the removal of traffic separation elements and to integrate the findings into the upcoming Public Rights-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines, 2009-08

Access to sports stadia, 2008-10

ADAAG and accessible paths through parking lots, 2013-15

Applies to the Internet, 2006-17, 2016-05, 2021-06

Appropriate extensions of ADA coverage regarding blindness/visual impairment, 2008-02

Calls upon the United States Supreme Court and the Judicial Conference of the United States to adopt disability anti-discrimination guidelines applicable to the federal courts which are modeled upon the appropriate provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the Title II ADA regulations, 2003-11

Commendation to the U.S. Access Board, for its promulgation of the long-awaited and anticipated final rule revising, updating and harmonizing the accessibility provisions of both the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the Minimum Government Requirements for Accessible Design (MGRAD) under the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), 2004-20

Demands that these agencies immediately commence proceedings which will lead to final regulatory action based upon the Access Board’s ABA accessibility provisions and ADAAG final rule, 2005-17

Revisions to the implementing regulations to ensure that online-only public accommodations are covered by Title III, 2015-06

Supports the passage of S. 928, and promotes development and passage of either amendments to S. 928 or a separate bill modeled on the concept and language of S. 928 which will redress the negative impact of the Supreme Court’s Garrett decision by requiring that state governments receiving federal financial assistance must, as a condition of entitlement to receive such assistance, affirmatively consent to being sued in federal court for money damages for alleged violations of Title I of the ADA, 2001-04

Urges Department of Justice to apply Title III of the ADA to website proprietors who deny access to their websites via inaccessible CAPTCHAs, 2007-21

ADULT BLIND (see also INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS, Elderly):

Grants for Independent Living Services, 2017-14

Training, 68‑03

AERBVI (see also AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLIND TEACHERS; BRAILLE; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; LOW VISION; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PUBLIC LAWS; RELATIONS with OTHER ORGANIZATIONS; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; SECTION 504; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

ACB instructs its officers, directors and staff to prepare and circulate a brief document outlining the rights of parents who are blind or visually impaired to receive materials in an accessible format from school districts throughout the country, 2005-32

Careers in Art, 87‑21

Communication About Inadequate Braille Instruction in Public and Residential Schools, 87‑01

Congratulations on Formation, 84‑21

Orientation and Mobility, certification of instructors with Low Vision, 86‑03

Third party reimbursement of orientation and mobility instructors, advocate for with ACB, 97-37
Use of proper job titles in all communications about the nationally certified professionals in the field of vision habilitation and rehabilitation, 2019-05

Regrets the action taken by Florida State University and asks Department of Education to work cooperatively with colleges and universities to create or expand programs for teachers who will work with children who are blind or visually impaired, 2009-21

Schools for the blind, ACB to work cooperatively with the Council of Schools for the Blind (COSB), the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER) to create a set of specific recommendations which all of the organizations will commit to implementing, 2009-19

AFFILIATED LEADERSHIP LEAGUE OF AND FOR THE BLIND (see also RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS):

Cooperation with, 90‑01, 91‑24

Fund‑Raising Standards, 81‑20

Policy Statement Requested Noting Guide Dogs as Equally Valid Mobility Option, 79‑09

AFFILIATES (see also INTERNAL MATTERS):

ACB Speakers at Conventions, 67‑10

Advocacy for Braille Instruction, 91‑21

Assisting ACB in Monitoring

Free matter problems, 84‑15, 94-04
Regulations under P.L. 94‑142 78‑21
Regulations under Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 78‑21
Title XX Funding and Funds Allocation, 78‑20

Assisting ACB in Achieving Coverage of Handicapped under Civil Rights Act of 1964, 83‑22

Assisting Affiliates in Improving Employment Opportunities, 75‑05

Assisting Airlines in Producing Accessible Emergency Exit and Oxygen Information, 85‑24

Audible Traffic Signals, increasing installations, 83‑20

Barrier Removal Resolutions, role in follow‑up, 86‑12

Board Authorized to Negotiate with Action for Volunteer Assistance, 76‑14

Board encourages affiliates to adopt a prohibited conduct policy, 2023-06

Board to establish a policy for referring members at large to state and special-interest affiliates, 2023-04

Communication of ADA Standards by National Staff, 91‑15

Communication with Affiliates to be in Accessible Media, 78‑11, 83‑27

Consumer Advocacy Seminars, finances, 78‑19

Encourages ACB’s affiliates to advocate for funding of professional visual interpretation services at the state level for people who are blind or who have low vision, 2023-12

Formation of and Committees to Study

“Regional Organizations,” 67‑12
Students affiliate, 70‑04
Writers affiliate, 74‑13

Fund‑Raising

Affiliated Leadership League standards, 81‑20
For ACB, 74‑18 89‑03
For themselves, handicapped artists’ priority, 78‑16

Intracity Transportation, affiliates’ assistance requested, 71‑05, 97-09, 97-10

Participation in Justin Dart Seminars, 88‑13

Quiet cars, ACB urges Congress and the President of the United States to promptly enact H.R. 734, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008, 2008-13

Urges ACB’s state affiliates to work with their state insurance commissioners and state legislatures to insure availability of automobile liability insurance for blind automobile owners at competitive rates, 2001-01

Urges the officers and directors of the American Council of the Blind to respectfully consider any affiliate’s right to take a position other than that of the national organization, but not to delay or postpone advocacy efforts based on achieving consensus between that affiliate and the national organization or between affiliates, 2003-05

Particular Affiliates

Alliance on Aging and Vision Loss, 2022-24, 2023-10

Aloha Council of the Blind and Visually Impaired, Hawaii quarantine, 84‑26

ABLA (now AAVIA) members, encouraging use, 87‑08

Law School Admission Test, treatment of test-takers who are blind, 2004-04

ACB Diabetics in Action

Access to insulin pumps, 2009-05

Continuous glucose monitors and glucometers, 2017-21

ACBFE (now ACBGE), implementation of 1986 computer amendments, 87‑29

ACB of Ohio, assistance with "ROSE" project, 80‑23

Arizona Council of the Blind, Grand Canyon resolution endorsed, 76‑11

Blind LGBT Pride International, 2020-03, 2021-26

Braille Revival League, 2020-04, 2022-06, 2022-07, 2022-24, 2024-01

Appropriate braille instruction and professional preparation, 2014-04

Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letter on braille, 2013-02

Honoring Louis Braille and taking the lead in developing and implementing such activities as are likely to forward a better understanding and a wider use of braille, 2008-14

CCLVI

And access to mobile applications, 2015-10

And production of NLS’ Talking Book Topics in large print, 2022-24

Consultation concerning tactile and visual markings, 83‑26

Friends-in-Art

ACB, along with FIA, request that Native Instruments, and where appropriate, other developers and manufacturers of music and sound-related software, work with blind and visually impaired musicians and audio engineers, including representatives of the American Council of the Blind, the ACB information access committee and Friends-in-Art, to arrive at, and implement, a solution to ensure that blind and visually impaired musicians and audio engineers are able to fully and independently use software products to enhance their practice of the musical arts, and in order to maintain competitiveness in the ever-changing music business, 2009-11

Urges NLS to convene a task force, which will explore promotional and training avenues to keep the art of transcription of musical notation into Braille alive and growing, 2001-24

Guide Dog Users, Inc.

ACB president to meet with GDUI president and the chairperson of the convention committee to develop recommendations concerning future conventions, which will be presented to both boards at the 1999 midyear board meeting, 98-37

ACB and GDUI request that the U.S. Department of Justice judiciously determine whether the ongoing lack of effective action by ride-share companies to prevent drivers from denying service to guide dog users equals a discriminatory pattern of practice, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 2023-14

ACB and GDUI to advise DOT that inconsistencies across the airline industry with regard to the content and implementation of the current attestation forms have meant that passengers with disabilities bear a burden that is unreasonable, and in some cases, insurmountable, 2023-15

Defending guide dog users from animal rights extremists, 93-03

Directs ACB staff to investigate the issue of business-related tax deductions for guide dog expenses, 2000-06

Expanding relationships with airlines, guide dog users, 2018-10

Misrepresentation of service animals, 2014-01

Placing a guide dog user on ACB Convention Committee, 95-17

Including guide dog representative in the site selection process, 2005-22

Support in quarantine negotiations, 79‑07

Thanks and praise to the Transportation Safety Administration for enforcing service dog relief areas within airport security, 2011-09

Library Users of America, 2020-04, 2022-07

ACB joins with Library Users of America to insist that RFB&D immediately reinstate its former practices of labeling each carton of tapes in braille, and providing a braille page in each carton specifying the pages of a book contained on each track of each tape, 2002-15

And production of NLS’ Talking Book Topics in large print, 2022-24

Commending Benetech for creating and implementing Bookshare.org, 2002-21

Requests that ACB, in cooperation with Library Users of America, request that NLS extend the policy begun with the "New York Times Book Review" and apply it to other audio publications where there are book reviews, 2024-02

Requests the ALA board publish a document reminding all of the standard-setting bodies working under the aegis of the American Library Association to incorporate into their standards elements that reaffirm the obligation of public libraries to make their collections, catalogs, and programs accessible to all people with disabilities, especially to individuals who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-27

NABS (now ACB Students)

ACB to join with NABS in investigating the accommodation procedures, and plans for their enhancement, for tests administered by Educational Testing Services; urges Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights to amend regulations to prohibit test administrators from flagging test scores as “non-standard” when such tests have been administered using reasonable accommodations, 2000-45

Assistance in seeking funding for professional staff position, 78‑23

Nevada Council of the Blind

Commending them for their work on accessible drug labeling statewide, 2017-15

RSVA

ACB endorses the creation and development of the Humphreys Randolph-Sheppard Employment Institute, 2014-08

ACB joins with its affiliate, the Randolph‑Sheppard Vendors of America (RSVA), to express its full support for all appropriate actions to save the Office for the Blind and Visually Impaired and to maintain the RSA regional offices and the Presidentially appointed status of the Commissioner, and to pledge to dedicate its resources and to work with other organizations to ensure the success of such initiatives, 2005-30

ACB supports the definition of active participation proposed by the RandolphSheppard Vendors of America to the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind and the Rehabilitation Services Administration, 2001-26

ACB urges Congress to strengthen and revitalize the Randolph-Sheppard program, 2007-30

ACB urges the RSA and the OMB to eliminate the prohibition against a state using federal and matching funds for the purchase of equipment valued at less than $1,000, 2023-11

Assistance in efforts to extend program to state facilities, 93-18

Commendation on their 50^th anniversary, 2018-12

Directs ACB to join with RSVA in arranging a meeting between Commissioner Fred Schroeder and others to raise the issue of the politicization of RSA, 99-40

Expression of abhorrence at views expressed in “Vendorscope,” 95-14

instructs ACB and RSVA to urge the Department of Defense to work collaboratively with the Department of Education to eliminate any requirement for a lead contractor in multi-state military dining facility contracts, 2024-11

Notes that RSA distributed a letter requiring impartiality in implementation of training require

under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, to all RSA Regional Directors, State Licensing Agency

Directors, and grantee universities, 2001-25

Opposing job training funds consolidation, 94-25

Supports, approves, and ratifies the “Randolph-Sheppard Program: Call for Action” document recently created by ACB, RSVA, and others, 99-13

VIDPI (now BITS)

1986 computer amendments, 87‑29

Electronic communications network for ACB, 86‑35

VIVA

ACB and VIVA demand that the Department of Veterans Affairs comply with its legal obligations by providing correspondence and other printed materials to veterans who are blind or visually impaired in accessible formats, 2007-17

Directs ACB’s president to coordinate discussions with interested ACB members, including the president of Visually Impaired Veterans of America or his designee, to meet with Togo West, acting secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, to explore opportunities for collaboration, 98-38

Protection of categorical & specialized services and residential schools with other orgs, 96-22

Removal of “Federation” from Affiliate Names, 74‑11

Technical Assistance from ACB, 75‑13

Public transit and shopping malls that aren’t allowing transit vehicles to enter mall parking lots or let riders off, or pick them up near mall entrances, urges state affiliates and local chapters to closely monitor public transportation policies of malls in their areas, 98-33

AGING AND VISION LOSS

ACB board, staff and officers to convey to Congress that any Medicare or Social Security reform proposal must include provisions for prescription drug coverage for blind and disabled beneficiaries as well as elderly beneficiaries, 2000-17

ACB supports the Medicare Vision Rehabilitation Services Act of 2001, 2001-17

Advocacy Services Steering Committee and Medicare Advantage plans, 2022-18

Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition, 2022-17

Commends the Biden Administration for including the $5 million increase in OIB funding in its proposed fiscal year 2024 budget, 2023-10

Directs ACB’s officers and staff to continue pursuing increased appropriations for services to the older blind, 2000-32

Home- and Community-Based Services, 2020-05

Revoke the Medicare Low Vision Device Exclusion, 2011-15

Supports the provisions of S. 511, which would amend the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 in a number of positive, constructive ways, 99-15

Teddie-Joy’s Law, 2021-33

AIDS (see also Discrimination; HEALTH; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS):

Commendation of National Braille Press and U.S. Surgeon‑General for Producing AIDS Information in Braille, 88‑23

Task Force on Vocational Rehabilitation, 87‑31

AIDS AND APPLIANCES (see also BRAILLE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; LOW VISION; TECHNOLOGY):

Access to microwaves, low-cost microwave oven, 2015-13

AIRA, 2019-12

Bioptic Telescopes, 85‑21

Documentation of Assistive Technology Products in Accessible Media, 91‑09

Duty Free Import, Nairobi Protocol, 85‑28

Dymo Braille Labeler, 76‑10

Electrically Alterable Graphic Braille Display, 79‑19

Financial Assistance Toward Purchase

American Foundation for the Blind loan program, disapproval of focus, 88‑17
Manufacturers’ role, 79‑16
Public fund, 77‑05

IBM Electric Braille Typewriter, 74‑06

Incandescent light bulbs, 2011-21

Low Vision Aids, availability and delivery issues

generally, 79‑22
students and P.L. 94‑142, 78‑10
coverage by Medicaid/Medicare, 78‑09, 2006
portable closed‑circuit magnifier, call for concerted research, 87‑35

Perkins braillers, production of, 92-26

Slate

Inexpensive, 86‑28
More durable plastic model, 92-25

Stenomask, use in court reporter certification exam, 74‑08

Universal design, need to accommodate people who are blind or have low vision, 95-15

Urges the President of the U.S. to instruct HHS to issue a directive that durable medical equipment may be provided even though medically necessary items do not appear on lists of approved devices, 98-18

AIR CARRIER ACCESS ACT

ACB calls upon the Department of Transportation to change certain recommendations contained in its proposed regulations under the Air Carrier Access Act, 2005-07

ACB urges the Department of Transportation, in its final rule implementing the ACAA, to define service animal in the context of those animals trained to perform physical tasks that mitigate the disabilities of their handlers, 2005-06

AIRFARE CONCESSIONS (see DEAF‑BLIND; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF DIABETES EDUCATORS (AADE):

Commends Visually Impaired Persons-Specialty Practice Group and the AADE for their work in advocating for accessible materials for blind diabetics, urges NLS to work with AADE to implement recommendations for updating diabetes-related materials in accessible formats, urges American Diabetes Association to begin producing and distributing “Diabetes Forecast” in recorded format in its entirety, 98-17

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS (AAP):

Directs ACB to participate in ongoing discussions with representatives of the Association of American Publishers, RFB&D, NLS, and NFB, to develop a pilot project demonstrating the feasibility of a national repository of standardized electronic files to facilitate the production of accessible texts and other materials, 99-36

Thanks the Association of American Publishers for its partnership and cooperation in achieving consensus and agreement concerning federal legislation which would increase access to elementary and secondary school textbooks and related instructional materials by students with disabilities, 2001-13

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS (AARP):

Demands that AARP provide its membership materials, including Modern Maturity Magazine, to its blind and visually impaired members in accessible formats, including Braille, large print, audio cassette, e-mail, and computer disk, 2002-03

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF STATE HIGHWAY AND TRANSPORTATION OFFICIALS (see also KENNELLY HIGHWAY VENDING PROGRAM):

Commercialization of Highway Rest Areas, 90‑01

AMERICAN COALITION OF CITIZENS WITH DISABILITIES (see also COMMENDATIONS; RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS):

Consultation Concerning Accessibility of ACB Convention Sites, 78‑08

Membership Rule, 82‑10

AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION

Accessible materials from American Diabetes Association, 98-17, 2006-19

Urges NLS to work with American Association of Diabetes Educators and its associated agencies to implement recommendations concerning updating of diabetes-related materials in accessible formats, and urges American Diabetes Association to immediately begin producing and distributing “Diabetes Forecast” in recorded format in its entirety (including ads), 98-17

AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TELEVISION AND RADIO ARTISTS (AFTRA):

Calls upon AFTRA and APH management to negotiate with each other in good faith, with all deliberate speed, for an initial collective bargaining agreement which will treat the narrators’ bargaining unit fairly and reasonably while insuring continuing high quality of talking book production, 2000-30

AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND (see also COMMENDATIONS; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES for the BLIND; TECHNOLOGY):

ACB to participate in Twenty-First Century Agenda on Aging and Vision Loss, 2017-12

ACB to work in coalition with AFB and, as appropriate, with other organizations representing people with disabilities, regarding access to information, 2013-11

Appreciation for the many thousands of talking books over the years, and requests AFB and NLS to work to see whether there is any opportunity that would allow a talking book program to continue in New York City even after AFB closes its talking book department, 2009-20

Commendation for

100^th anniversary, 2021-15
support of accreditation concept, 86‑15
support of NAC, 89‑11
transition team training, 86‑34

Develop a public policy agenda in partnership with other like-minded organizations, including but not limited to model legislation, executive actions, and industry stakeholder negotiations, with the goal of making sure that no personal medical device remains inaccessible and unusable by people who are blind or visually impaired, 2016-13

Disapproval of Technology Loan Program Focus, 88‑17

Intensify efforts to collect demographic info, 96-02

Function as Marketing Agency, 76‑10

Opposes services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, directs ACB leadership to participate in an AFB initiative to attempt to resolve these concerns, 98-29

Urging Continued Financial Support of NAC, 86‑15

AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARDS INSTITUTE (see also ACCESS, Architecture and Environment; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

Accessible Route standards, 92-04

Access to Stairs, 95-11

Curb Ramp standards, 92-04

Directional Tiles, 85‑22

Directs the board of directors, officers, staff and environmental access committee to work with standard-setting bodies including, but not limited to, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to expeditiously promulgate all necessary rules that will require the installation of specified emergency evacuation devices in buildings, aircraft and passenger vessels either located in or licensed to do business in the United States of America or its dependencies, 2002-22

Elevator Markings

ANSI proposals inadequate, 78‑01
Need for both braille and large print, 78‑02
Need for uniformity, 74‑04
Need for Consumer Input, 78‑03
Signage standards, 92-04, 97-01
Standards Improvement, 88‑02, 92-04

Tactile Warning Surfaces, 89‑13, 92-04

Support for detectable warnings to be installed in the public right-of-way as well as at or within public accommodations and commercial facilities, 2011-16

Universal access, parameters on, 95-16

Universal design, need to achieve while accommodating

people who are blind or have low vision, 95-15

Urges the IEEE, ANSI, and the National Association of Manufacturers to develop standards for accessible use of consumer electronics products, and advocates for the adoption of policies which would require all such products sold carrying the Underwriters Laboratory label to meet these standards for access, or have the ability to interface with an adaptive technology device, 98-24

AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND (see also BRAILLE; CHILDREN; EDUCATION; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS):

Federal Quota Funds, use, 82‑14, 89‑01

Funding, 88‑04

Inadequate Source for Up‑to‑Date Textbooks, 82‑14

Production of Perkins braillers, 92-26

Requested to Produce Supplemental Study Materials in Accessible Media, 87‑04

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (see also ACCESS; CIVIL RIGHTS; DEAF‑BLIND; Discrimination; EDUCATION; EDUCATION TESTING SERVICE; EMPLOYMENT; HOUSING; LIBRARY SERVICES; MINIMUM WAGE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARATRANSIT; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; SECTION 504; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; STUDENTS; SUBMINIMUM WAGE; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Access to airport kiosks, 2008-11

Access to on‑screen (televised) information, 91‑02

Access to prescription labels, 2011-12, 2018-09

Outrage at the National Council on Disability for failing to carry out a national public awareness initiative regarding accessible prescription labeling, 2015-09

Access to Services and Programs of American Business Women’s Association and Business Network International, 2021-30

Access to sports stadia, 2008-10

Access to Telephone Network, 90‑08, 94-09

ADA of 1988, 88‑13

ADA of 1989, 89‑06

ADAAG requirement for signage, 92-04

Adverse Effect on Paratransit, 91‑05

Advocacy Efforts, 2020-01

Affirms ACB's belief that the time has come to address the inequities that are embedded within the current ADA regulations and to begin the process of making a paradigm shift such that the purpose of paratransit service will be to allow people with disabilities to get where they need to go when they need to get there, 2024-14

Audio description, inclusion of in ADA regulations, 93-16

Communication of ADA standards by staff to affiliates, 91‑15

DOJ narrow interpretation of signage standards, 92-05

Inadequacy of remedies, 91‑06

Orientation and mobility instruction, 90‑21

Paratransit requirements under Title II, 97-21

Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act, 91‑20

Recognition of Persons with Disabilities as a Minority Group, 91‑07

Student Resource Study Committee, 90‑18

Talking Signs, advocacy for, 90‑09

Supports the immediate installation of remote infrared audible signs in the transportation system of Washington, D.C. as a model to demonstrate that it is possible to provide, through the use of these signs, travel independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-14

Task Force on Rights and Empowerment of Americans with Disabilities, 88‑14

Truncated Domes as safety hazards under the ADA ????

ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENT (see also CONVENTION MATTERS; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; GUIDE DOGS; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE)

Access issues, comments by Commissioner of RSA, 91‑26

Access to sports stadia, 2008-10

ANSI Standards, 85‑22, 88‑02, 92-04,

Accessible paths through parking lots, 2013-15

Destination elevators, 2007-02

Supports the installation of Talking Signs in the WMATA system as a model to demonstrate that it is possible to provide, through the use of these signs, travel independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-14

ARCHITECTURAL AND TRANSPORTATION BARRIERS COMPLIANCE BOARD (the Access Board)

ACB encourages the U.S. Access Board to update the Section 508 standards, to urge federal agencies to establish well-documented accessibility validation procedures prior to procuring or deploying any technologies, 2007-03

ACB urges the Access Board to extend and adapt the accessibility standards for ATMs to interactive transaction machines (ITMs), 2000-38

ACB urges the Public Rights of Way Access Advisory Committee and the Access Board to adopt accessibility guidelines that require there be two curb ramps on each corner at which curb ramps are installed, and that all curb ramps and curb cuts on opposite corners of pedestrian islands be in alignment and within the intended path of travel, 2000-12

Asks the Access Board and the U.S. Department of Transportation to promulgate and implement guidelines pursuant to the ADA and the Transportation Equity Act for the 21^st Century (TEA-21), detectable warnings, audible pedestrian signals, etc., 98-13

Audible countdown features, research concerning best practices, 2016-17

Braille signage in hotels, 2016-16

Clear glass doors, 2017-20

Committee on signage, 81‑08

Communications Devices for the Deaf‑Blind, federal funding, 62‑06

Comprehensive standards, 88‑02

Convention site, markings, 84‑22, 86‑12

Crosswalk markings, 86‑09

Demands that these agencies immediately commence proceedings which will lead to final regulatory action based upon the Access Board’s ABA accessibility provisions and ADAAG final rule, 2005-17

Destination elevators, 2007-02

Detectable directional surfaces, 85‑22, 90‑03

Detectable warning surfaces, 89‑13, 90‑03, 94-27, 96-41

at hazardous vehicular ways, 95-13
at level track crossings, 94-27
at locations where curbs have been removed, 96-18
detectable warning standards, 92-04, 2011-06
detectable warnings, calling for Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority to install, 94-20, 96-17
detectable warnings, expression of outrage at suspension of requirements, 94-06
electronic cuing systems, 96-17
DOJ narrow interpretation on Signage, 92-05
elevator markings
ANSI proposals inadequate, 78‑01

Devices operated by touch-sensitive controls, 80‑05, 84‑25

Directional tiles, 85‑22, 86‑08

Public buildings, 84‑02
Subway safety, 84‑06

Environmental information (talking signs, etc.), 90‑09

Hazardous vehicular ways, detectable warnings needed at, 95-13
Hotel room markings, 86‑12
Minimum federal standards, 85‑25
Public buildings, markings on, 83‑26, 84‑02

Implementation of previous resolutions, 86‑12

Incandescent light bulbs, 2011-21

Motion Pictures, 95-01

Need for both braille and large print, 78‑02

Need for uniformity, 74‑04

Public mass transit, 90‑12

Stairs, tread markings on, 92-04
Stairs, access to, 95-11
Tactile restroom identifiers, 83‑26
Tactile signage on devices and products, 93-23, 2021-07

Public rights-of-way, 2019-06

Sidewalks, recommends that the Access Board, the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Department of Justice require that, whenever a road or bridge is constructed or reconstructed in a public right-of-way, sidewalks shall be included, unless technically infeasible, 2002-23
Standards for location, 92-04
Support for detectable warnings to be installed in the public right-of-way as well as at or within public accommodations and commercial facilities, 2011-16
Tactile warning surface standards, 89‑13

Talking Signs, 90‑09

Supports the immediate installation of remote infrared audible signs in the transportation system of Washington, D.C. as a model to demonstrate that it is possible to provide, through the use of these signs, travel independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-14

Universal access, parameters of standards, 95-16

Universal design, need to achieve while accommodating people who are blind or have low vision, 95-15

Urges NIDRR, the Access Board, and university programs to adequately fund and undertake research necessary for the development of accessibility guidelines for the removal of all barriers within and without the built environment which inhibit effective wayfinding and interfere with the full participation within the mainstream of American society of persons who are deaf-blind, persons who are blind and visually impaired and who also have developmental disabilities, and other multiply disabled blind individuals, 2010-22

Voter registration and polling locations, 80‑20, 83‑21, 97-30

ART (see also AFFILIATES):

Careers in Art, 87‑21

Home Recording Act, 86‑19

Promotion of Arts Activities for the Handicapped, 78‑16

Video Description by Motion Picture Studios, 95-01

Video description in National Endowment for the Arts funded projects, 96-06

ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION (ATIA)

Urges manufacturers of hardware and software designed specifically to be used by people who are blind to make a commitment to provide training materials in hard copy braille upon request, 2010-18

AUDIO DESCRIPTION, general

ACB staff to urge DVD producers to add an audio description track and to include navigation menus in all future DVD releases, 2006-21

ACB to advocate directly with streaming video providers, broadcast and non-broadcast networks, to pass through existing audio-described content, 2024-12

ACB, in conjunction with other disability-related organizations, to advocate directly with the Advanced Television Standards Committee, the FCC, and industry stakeholders to ensure pass-through of all provided secondary audio streams regardless of technology, 2024-13

ACB to collaborate with the Media Access Group at WGBH to actively promote the inclusion of audio-described movies in the fast-growing satellite radio broadcast media market, and directs the executive director to write a letter to the Media Access Group at WGBH to express both our appreciation for their efforts on this matter and to request specific actions that this organization can take to assist in the promotion of the broadcast of audio-described movies on satellite radio broadcast media, 2004-24

ACB encourages its affiliates to advocate for funding of professional visual interpretation services at the state level for people who are blind or who have low vision, 2023-12

Access to audio description through PBS-SoCal, 2016-09

Access to Netflix’s video content, 2011-17

Calls upon the National Endowment for the Arts to require audio description in its grants, to consider a national registry of described content, and to work with ACB’s Audio Description Project Committee, 2015-02

Commending Netflix for beginning to offer both original and third-party produced audio described content, 2015-14

Commends Apple Corp., iTunes, Pixar, and the Media Access Group at WGBH, 2010-17

Congratulates the FCC for its leadership in issuing proposed video description requirements and urges the commissioners to adopt the rule as proposed, 2000-19

Directs the Information Access Committee to expeditiously investigate this vitally important television broadcasting and telecommunications issue and provide a report, including recommended actions, to the ACB Board of Directors by the date of the 2006 mid‑year board meeting, 2005-34

Directs ACB’s officers, directors and staff to explore whether unauthorized use of copyrighted audio‑described materials is occurring, and, if it is determined that such unauthorized use is occurring, to develop a plan of action to address this problem, 2005-25

Supports audio description, and urges film producers and theatre owners to provide audio description in all newly produced, re-released, and renovated or restored movies, 2000-07

That ACB work with the FCC to require all broadcast and non-broadcast networks providing video description to establish a clear point of contact to address issues of quality and standards for video description, 2018-15

Urge the FCC Chairman to 1. add consumers and producers of video description who are generally accepted as being knowledgeable advocates on behalf of video description to the FCC’s Consumer Advisory Committee, and 2. add comprehensive information to www.dtv.gov regarding the implementation and dissemination of video description within digital broadcasts, 2007-08

Urges the FCC to substantially expand the number of hours of audio-described programming, the number of networks required to offer such programming and the designated markets, and to propose and issue regulations requiring the designation of a dedicated digital stream for audio description, 2016-01

Urges the FCC to increase the total number of required hours of audio description up to the CVAA’s allowable statutory maximum, 2017-02

Urges the FCC to require the broadcast and non-broadcast networks to establish and/or join an automated digital listing of all available audio-described programming, 2017-01

Urges producers of DVDs, and trade organizations representing DVD engineering and the directing and performing professions, to include, or endorse the inclusion of, a DVS track on all movies and entertainment released through the media of DVD, 2000-22

Urges those preparing motion picture DVDs for release for sale to include a descriptive video track when it is available, and urges those preparing the packaging for DVDs to include a clear label in a standard location on the box which alerts the potential customer to the availability of video description, 2003-26

Use of human voice in audio description for cinema and narrative video/streaming, 2021-22

USA Network waiver of requirements for two years, 2019-04

AUDIO DESCRIPTION PROJECT

Access to television listings with audio description, 2018-18

Audio-described White House Tour, 2018-19

Audio description feature on YouTube, 2022-13

Promoting live audio description for theater productions, 2022-14

Theaters offering live audio description to blind/visually impaired patrons, 2022-26

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

Commend the work of ACB’s officers, board, staff and members for their efforts to hold makers of autonomous vehicles accountable for ensuring the full accessibility of such vehicles to people who are blind or visually impaired, encourages collaboration with manufacturers, 2017-10

Full accessibility of, 2017-11, 2019-11

B

BANKS AND BANKING

ACB urges the Access Board to extend and adapt the accessibility standards for ATMs to interactive transaction machines (ITMs), 2000-38

Banking services, standards, 86‑07

Directs ACB’s officers, directors and staff to work through a coalition of organizations of and for the blind to create and implement a training infrastructure that will enable people who are blind or visually impaired to learn how to bank and shop more independently, 2005-27

BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (see also ACCESS; AERBVI; AIDS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BLIND TEACHERS; CIVIL RIGHTS; Discrimination; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; EYE RESEARCH; GUIDE DOGS; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LOW VISION; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; POSTAL MATTERS; RANDOLPH-SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TAX MATTERS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE; WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND):

ACB expresses its dissatisfaction and disapproval concerning the decision of Skydive Las Vegas to refuse to allow a person to skydive solely on the basis that he or she is blind or visually impaired, 2005-31

ACB opposes any effort of the Social Security Administration or the Congress to seek changes to the definition of blindness as it is applied to eligibility for Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income benefits, 2004-25

ACB urges Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to add to its annual EEOC-1 form the category “blind and visually impaired,” 2000-28

American Lutheran Church, 85‑06

As Disqualifying Factor in Teacher Certification, 64‑03

As Separate Category Under Social Security Act, 62‑09

Attitudes of elementary and secondary students, 89‑04

Blind and Visually Impaired as Separate, Distinct Group under Vocational Rehabilitation and other programs, 68‑05, 77‑16, 80‑11, 89‑21, 91‑20, 96-13

Blindness Stamp, 67‑01

Bureau of the Census, 85‑02, 96-02, 2019-08

Calls upon governmental research entities to increase their blindness treatment research budgets, 98-08

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Creation of Research Center on Blindness and Mobility, 74‑14

Demographics Information (see also AFB)

AFB to intensify efforts collecting data, 96-02

Deploring Mendicancy, 64‑12

Educating the Public

Curricular revisions concerning disability, 91‑07
Development of documentary and promotional “spots,” 75‑17
National campaign of “spot announcements,” 74‑02

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of School, 2017-04

Internal Revenue Service and Social Security Administration, 85‑03

Opposes services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, directs ACB leadership to participate in an AFB initiative to attempt to resolve these concerns, 98-29

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Prevention, 62‑01

Recognizes the importance of Social Security programs to B/VI citizens, instructs national office to monitor and report to the membership all legislation concerning privatization of, 98-12

Revoke the Medicare Low Vision Device Exclusion, 2011-15

Seeks the cooperation and assistance of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners in drafting and disseminating model legislation to all 50 states, which would prohibit discrimination on the basis of blindness in determining eligibility for, and cost of, long-term care insurance, and disability insurance, 2001-15

Shortage of Trained Personnel, 76‑06, 84‑16, 89‑15

Travel industry, 84‑04

White Cane Safety Day, 63‑03

BLIND TEACHERS (see also EDUCATION; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS):

Coordination of Curricula Between Public and Residential Schools, 75‑14

Qualifications, 62‑03, 64‑03

Requesting Clarification of NCATE Physical Standards, 64‑02

Supplementary Study Materials in Accessible Media, 87‑04

Support for TVIs with vision loss, and driver assistance for, 2016-11

Teacher‑Oriented Materials in Accessible Media, 87‑03

Video Tapes in Training and Placement, 73‑07

Urging FCC to allow blind radio amateurs to serve as volunteer examiners, 93-04

BLINDED VETERANS ASSOCIATION

Collaboration with, 2021-16

BOARD OF PUBLICATIONS (see INTERNAL MATTERS; NOT ADOPTED):

BRAILLE (see also ACCESS; AERBVI; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; EMPLOYMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION; NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; SECTION 504; SECTION 508; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

ACB disappointed with the action taken regarding the Unified English Braille Code (UEBC) by the International Council on English Braille (ICEB) and the Braille Authority of North America (BANA), 2004-15

ACB does not endorse the Unified English Braille Code, 2001-27

ACB’s officers, directors, and BANA representative to work vigorously in opposition to a braille code containing dual systems of numbering and/or which lacks substantial consumer-driven evaluation, 2000-35

ACB recommends that the Unified Braille Code not be adopted at this time, 99-43

ACB urges BANA to make a thorough study of the Nemeth Uniform Braille System (NUBS), 2005-13, 2008-16

Adding braille literacy issues in IDEA re-authorization, 95-20

Alternatives to in producing labeling system independently usable, 93-23

Braille labeling on products, 2011-05, 2022-06, 2024-01

AIDS Information, 88‑23

Appropriateness of Braille Instruction for Low Vision Students, 87‑01, 91‑21

Artistic but unreadable braille (see also Access), 97-01, 97-28

BANA Braille Code Changes, 92-06, 94-15, 95-18, 2011-04, 2012-07, 2016-04

BANA Assistance Requested

Braille Recognition Week, 87‑17

revitalizing braille instruction, 81‑05, 2014-04

BANA‑NUTC 1982 Conference on Braille for English‑Speaking Countries, 80‑07

Books, pricing, 85‑27, 86‑31, 87‑20

Books Provided by or to NLS

centralized distribution, adverse effect on braille literacy, 91‑16

federal contractors, price control as affecting availability to public, 85‑27, 86‑31

specifications, 89‑19

Braille, Louis, postage stamp, 93-02

Braille Recognition Week, 87‑17

Braille unification, directs that the 2002 convention program include a general session program item addressing the issues of Braille unification, 2001-03

Change format of braille magazines, 96-16

Commends Hallmark for its braille greeting cards, 2003-03

Credit cards, urges issuers of credit cards to use best practices in implementing the ADA by providing statements to blind and visually impaired customers in accessible formats, and also urges that braille markings be placed on credit cards when requested, 99-07

Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letter on braille, 2013-02

Electrically Alterable Graphic Braille Display, 79‑19

Guidelines for Reform, 88‑01

ICEB (See BANA Braille Code Changes), 95-18

Inadequate Instruction in Public and Residential schools, 67‑03, 74‑06, 81‑05, 87‑01, 91‑21

Mandatory Instruction, 87‑01, 91‑21

Non-vocational rehabilitation, 2019-16

Qualified Braille Instruction, 91‑21

Perkins braillers, production of, 92-26

Recycling Braille to Underdeveloped Countries, 80‑01

Repudiate any effort to alter or modify the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act’s existing braille provisions that would in any way impair IDEA’s currently uncompromising approach to the provision of braille, 2016-03

Slate and Stylus, 67‑03, 74‑06, 82‑07, 92-25

Text telephones in braille, 92-17

Unified English Braille, 2012-07

Urges NLS to convene a task force, which will explore promotional and training avenues to keep the art of transcription of musical notation into Braille alive and growing, 2001-24

BRAILLE AUTHORITY OF NORTH AMERICA (BANA)

ACB does not endorse the Unified English Braille Code, 2001-27

ACB recommends that the Unified Braille Code not be adopted at this time, 99-43

ACB urges BANA to make a thorough study of the Nemeth Uniform Braille System (NUBS), 2005-13, 2008-16

BANA Braille Code Changes, 92-06, 94-15, 95-18, 2011-04, 2012-07, 2016-04

BANA Assistance Requested

BANA‑NUTC 1982 Conference on Braille for English‑Speaking Countries, 80‑07

Braille unification, directs that the 2002 convention program include a general session program item addressing the issues of Braille unification, 2001-03

ICEB (See BANA Braille Code Changes), 95-18

Unified English Braille, 2012-07

BRAILLE FORUM (see INTERNAL MATTERS):

Reinstate 12 issues available in braille, large print, digital cartridge, 2022-07

BUSINESS ENTERPRISE PROGRAM

One regional Randolph-Sheppard conference planned without the active participation of the committees of licensed blind managers in the state programs and the Business Enterprise Program directors in those states; calls upon RSA to prevent this type of conference planning in the future by policy guidance to the regional directors and grantee universities, 2000-40

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CHICAGO LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND

Commending the Chicago Lighthouse on its 100^th birthday, 2006-18

CHILDREN (see also BRAILLE; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; STUDENTS)

Access to educational materials for blind parents who have sighted children, 2007-01

Anne Sullivan Macy Act, 2012-06

Appropriate braille instruction and professional preparation, 2014-04

BANA and Braille Codes, 2011-04

Braille Instruction in Public and Residential Schools, 87‑01

Calls upon the Department of Education to undertake a study to see how many children who are blind/visually impaired are being served by private and charter schools, 2010-16

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letter on braille, 2013-02

Different codes for mathematical instruction, 2016-04

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04

National Library Service

Children’s magazines, 87‑10
Importance of, 86‑20

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Reading materials worldwide, 2008-07

Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, seven core principles, 2004-19

Relocation of Rehabilitation Services Administration, 87‑23

Schools for the blind, ACB supports and will provide assistance to affiliates in states where closing of the residential school may be imminent, 98-10

Services for Birth‑to‑Five Group, 86‑13

Support for TVIs with vision loss, and driver assistance for, 2016-11

Supports the notion that people who are blind and not otherwise disabled must receive testing accommodations that meet their needs rather than being exempted from the need to pass state exit tests, 2010-13

Updating and issuing policy guidance concerning the education of students with vision loss by the end of 2012, 2011-14

CITIZENSHIP AND IMMIGRATION

Directs the ACB staff to inform the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) about the specialized requirements of United States citizenship test-takers with visual impairments for appropriate alternate formats, alternative test administration procedures, and test questions that relate appropriately to the non-visual experiences of this population, 2004-12

CIVIL RIGHTS (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; DISCRIMINATION; EMPLOYMENT; GUIDE DOGS, Hawaii Quarantine; HOUSING; LEGAL MATTERS; PUBLIC LAWS; SECTION 503; SECTION 504):

ACB joins with other stakeholders in advocating for the expansion of safe, accessible, and affordable transportation for people who are blind or visually impaired, 2004-18

ACB strongly urges the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to commit to responding to complaints, at a maximum within one year of their receipt, 2009-15

Access to absentee and vote-by-mail ballots, 2018-02

Authorizes the officers, directors, and staff to take all necessary actions to ensure the accessibility of voting equipment and procedures, including a voter verifiable paper audit trail, wherever adopted, 2005-16

Access to airport kiosks, 2008-11

Access to documents in accessible formats for federal retirees, 2012-11

Access to electronic polling books or voter verification systems, 2018-03

Amendments to Civil Rights Act, HR 1 of the 102nd Congress, 91‑06

Civil Rights Act of 1964

coverage of handicapped as national priority, 83‑22

Civil Rights Act of 1968, fair housing amendments, 83‑09

Civil Rights Restoration Act (Grove City decision), 85‑07, 87‑18

Commends ACB’s staff for opposing those judicial nominees whose records indicate a strong likelihood that their judicial decisions would be detrimental to the civil rights of Americans who are blind or visually impaired, 2001-02

Comprehensive Civil Rights Act for the Blind to be Drafted, 75‑18, 85‑12

Confirms and rededicates ACB’s commitment to principles of non-discrimination and fair treatment on the milestone occasion of the 40th anniversary of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that have underpinned and guided ACB’s disability rights and civil rights advocacy and coalition efforts and activities over many years, 2004-06

Directs ACB to instruct its officers, directors and staff to work with other organizations of and for the blind to create a national initiative to do the following: 1) train hospital personnel on how to appropriately and effectively communicate, interact, and deliver quality services to people who are blind or visually impaired; and 2) to develop and disseminate materials that will enable people who are blind or visually impaired to understand and defend their rights in a hospital setting, 2005-28

Employment Discrimination, Title VII Remedies, 79‑15, 83‑22, 91‑06

Equal Access to Voting Rights Act of 1983, 83‑21

Federal Treatment to Track That Given the Rights of Other Protected Classes, 77‑15, 77‑17

Guide dogs on planes, regulations regarding, 2017-05

Hawaii Quarantine of Guide Dogs (right to travel), 90‑14

Hate Crimes

Expresses support of S. 1529, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and urges Congress to include language in the bill to address the rising rate of hate crimes against blind people and guide dog teams, 98-30

Housing

Generally, 79‑14, 83‑09
Housing advocacy, 2022-27
California’s discrimination against those with guide dogs, 76‑17
Discrimination against disabled students, 77‑03
Fair Housing Amendments, 83‑09

New affirmative action regulations under Section 503, 2014-11

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Opposition to NCD’s 14(c) recommendations, 2014-09

Participation in Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Authorized, 75‑20

Responsibilities of the Department of Justice under Section 508, 2014-10

Section 503, favoring private cause of action, 89‑02

Task Force on Civil Rights

Established, 76‑01

Housing discrimination against disabled students, 77‑03

Law School Admission Test, treatment of test-takers who are blind, 2004-04

Misrepresentation of service animals, 2014-01

Public transit and shopping malls that aren’t allowing transit vehicles to enter mall parking lots or let riders off, or pick them up near mall entrances, 98-33

Urges Bush administration to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2007-13

Urges U.S. Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, 2012-14

Urging Observance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Arizona, 91‑03

Voting (see also ACCESS, Architecture and Environment), 80‑20, 83‑15, 83‑21

COMCAST

Access to print materials from Comcast (such as bills, etc.), 2007-28

COMMENDATIONS (see also THANKS AND APPRECIATION):

ACB Directors, Staff, etc.

Playboy case, 86‑21
ACB’s staff and Advocacy Services Committee for their efforts to protect the rights of Americans who are blind or visually impaired to receive “equally effective communications" through descriptive video services, 2001-18
ACB’s staff for opposing those judicial nominees whose records indicate a strong likelihood that their judicial decisions would be detrimental to the civil rights of Americans who are blind or visually impaired, 2001-02
ACB officers, board of directors, and staff, and others for filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 seeking to require that manufacturers develop and market cellular phones that have features that are accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, and commends those manufacturers of cellular phones who have begun to work with ACB to explore means by which their products can be made accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-16
Adoption of strong disability access standards which include rigorous requirements for information access and other technology-based access accommodations for people who are blind or visually impaired, 2001-11

Aman, Delbert, 86‑26

Amazon, for its success with iOS devices, and requests for its applications to be accessible on the Kindle as well, 2013-06

American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities, role in securing promulgation of Section 504 regulations, 77‑13

American Foundation for the Blind for

Supporting accreditation concept, 86‑15
Support of NAC, 89‑11

American Public Health Association, low vision Medicaid/Medicare issues, 83‑18

Apple for release of accessible iPhone, 2009-04

Benetech, for creating and implementing Bookshare.org, 2002-21

Blind Industrial Workers of the Year, 88‑18

Braille, Louis, 2008-14

Bridges, Eric, for his years of service to ACB, 2013-14

Brunson, Melanie, on her 17 years of service, 2015-04

Certain Airlines, emergency exit and oxygen information in accessible media, 85‑24

Chandler, James, efforts in production of a dictionary on cassette, 74‑17

Chicago Lighthouse, on its 100^th birthday, 2006-18

Commends the Biden Administration for including the $5 million increase in OIB funding in its proposed fiscal year 2024 budget, 2023-10

Commends the limited, but growing, number of utility companies offering billing in alternate formats, 99-38

Cranston, Sen. Allen, “special transportation” regulations, 87‑09

Cylke, Frank Kurt, affordability of braille books, 86‑31

D’Amato, Alfonse, Casey nomination for judgeship, 92-08

Dart Jr., Justin, for his years of work in the field of disabilities, 2002-26

Dialogue Publications, Inc., negotiations for first‑class mailing privilege, 71‑03

Dingell, Rep. John, for efforts to ensure NII accessibility, 94-10

D.C. Council of the Blind, on its 100^th anniversary, 2013-01

Federal Aviation Agency and others re: employment of the Blind, 67‑04

Federal Communications Commission for its leadership in issuing proposed video description requirements and urges the commissioners to adopt the rule as proposed, 2000-19

Fields, Rep. Jack, for efforts to ensure NII accessibility, 94-10

Fogarty, George, for his years of service, 2002-14

Freedom Scientific, upon its formation, and commends Freedom Scientific’s initial involvement with the blind community, 2000-25

Friends of C‑SPAN, 83‑17

Graham, Sen. Bob, for support of Independent Living for Older Blind, 92-28

Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., Guiding Eyes for the Blind, Inc., Leader Dogs for the Blind, Inc., Seeing Eye, Inc., for “Digest of Legislation Relating to Travel with Dog Guides,” 85‑11

Guide Dog Schools, 92-10

Hall, Frank Haven, on 100th anniversary of Hall brailler, 93-10

Henley, Vernon, 86‑25

Hoover, Dr. Richard, 86‑29

International Business Machines Corporation, accessible office technology, 83‑25

Lifetime Television, for making information available on its web site pertaining to its upcoming video-described programming, 2002-05

Lions Clubs International on its 100^th year of service, 2017-03

Lions Districts and Lions Clubs for their great community contribution in working with people who are blind, partially blind, and deaf-blind, and for their work in prevention of blindness, reminds them that when they use the “White Cane Symbol,” the funds collected should be used only to assist such people, 98-27

Mack, Grant M., for years of dedication, 93-01

Markey, Rep. Edward, for efforts to ensure NII accessibility, 94-10

Martinez, Rep. Matthew, for support of National Commission on Blindness, 92-27

McCain, Sen. John, for his leadership and cooperation in striving to restore vital information access for Americans who are blind and visually impaired, through the inclusion of Section 9 of S. 1264, which seeks reinstatement of the FCC video-description rule, 2003-22

McDaniel, Durward K., congratulations to, 92-23

Miller, Oral O., for his 30 years of service, “Miller Time” convention, 98-01

National Braille Press, production of AIDS materials, 88‑23

Computer primer, 83‑13

National Library Service, production of Datamation magazine, 70‑03

Netflix, for beginning to offer both original and third-party produced audio described content, 2015-14

Newspapers for the Blind, Inc., 87‑26

Northwest Airlines, universal design principles, 97-36

Oakland, California, installation of audible traffic signals, 86‑24

Owens, Rep. Major R., for support of National Commission on Blindness, 92-27

Randolph, Jennings, honors his memory and his accomplishments on behalf of people who are blind, visually impaired, and who otherwise have disabilities, 98-07

President Ronald Reagan, appointment of Madeleine Will as Assistant Secretary of OSERS, 83‑02

Randolph-Sheppard Vendors of America on their 50^th anniversary, 2018-12

Riviera Hotel and Casino, for hosting this first‑ever sanctioned poker tournament in which braille and large print cards were used, 2005-23

Ross, Chelsea, for her resolution in Nebraska championing the cause of accessible currency, 2007-06

Salt Lake City’s Mayor and City Council, installation of audible traffic signals, 80‑24

Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind on its 100^th anniversary, 2018-06

Senator Jennings Randolph, monitoring and improvement of Randolph‑Sheppard program, 86‑32

Slattery, Rep. Jim, for efforts to ensure NII accessibility, 94-10

Spillum, Walter, for his pioneering contributions to the field of international blindness education, 2015-01

Stark, Rep. Duane, for his work related to accessible currency, 2007-29

Taylor, Stewart F., FTA regional administrator (San Francisco), for actions related to detectable warnings issue, 93-21

Temple University, admission of David Hartman to medical school, 84‑31

Thompson, William S., president of GCIB, for his efforts in aligning the organization with other blindness-related consumer and professional organizations concerning the minimum wage issues, 2000-21

Travel Industry, certain providers, 84‑04

U.S. Access Board, for its promulgation of the long-awaited and anticipated final rule revising, updating and harmonizing the accessibility provisions of both the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the Minimum Government Requirements for Accessible Design (MGRAD) under the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), 2004-20

U.S. Mint and State of Alabama government for the Helen Keller design on the Alabama quarter, 2004-01

U.S. Surgeon General, AIDS materials in braille, 88‑23

Vendors involved in Honolulu Airport agreement, 93-07

Visually Impaired Persons-Specialty Practice Group and the American Association of Diabetes Educators for their work in advocating for accessible materials for blind diabetics, 98-17

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR SEVERELY DISABLED

ACB calls upon the Committee for Purchase from People who are Blind or Severely Disabled to strengthen its efforts to educate federal acquisition officials and government purchase card holders about their obligations under the JWOD Act and the Committee’s implementing regulations, 2005-24

Asks ACB to urge the nomination of Mark Richert to the vacant place on the Committee for Purchase, 2002-27

Executive Order 13078 creates the National Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities, charges it with doing special investigations with regard to the Randolph-Sheppard and Javits-Wagner-O’Day Acts, 98-21

Urges RSA commissioner to stand firm against assaults on the Randolph-Sheppard program, 98-05

21^ST CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS AND VIDEO ACCESSIBILITY ACT/COMMUNICATIONS, VIDEO AND TECHNOLOGY ACCESSIBILITY ACT

Asks ACB to advocate directly with streaming video providers, broadcast and non-broadcast networks, to pass through existing audio-described content, 2024-12

21^st Century Telecommunications Act, H.R. 3101, 2010-03 (later the 21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act), 2010-03

21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008, H.R. 6320, 2008-12

COMPUTERS (see also ACCESS; AIDS and APPLIANCES; BRAILLE; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; SECTION 508; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

Access to appliances and electronic devices, 2004-22

Access to Intuit Corp.’s software, 2000-02

Access to Oracle software, and commending Oracle for showing interest in making its products accessible, 2000-09

Accessible software and assistive technology for government employees, 2006-13

Accessibility in general, 79‑19, 87‑29, 90‑07, 91‑09, 93-17

Accessible computer laboratories in higher education, 93-22

Adobe PDF, making the accessible document setting the default, 2013-09

Antivirus and anti-malware software, 2018-01

Committee on Technology and Visual Impairment, 78‑12

Computer‑Related Materials in Accessible Media, 83‑13

Development of a single, nationwide preferred file format standard, 2000-36

Directs ACB’s president and executive director to determine, or cause to be determined, the number of ACB members who are not Internet users; establish policies which minimize the communication disadvantages to this population without diminishing the benefits of the Internet for the organization; and promote activities, communications, and programs to encourage and facilitate more Internet use by non‑users, 2005-15

Directs ACB officers, directors, and staff to communicate to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs the necessity for the department to comply with the accessibility requirements of Section 508, 2005-19

Documentation of Assistive Technology Products in Accessible Media, 83‑13, 91‑09

Electrically Alterable Graphic Braille Display, 79‑19

Federal Procurement, 87‑29, 90‑07

Microsoft Windows 10, failure to ensure full accessibility of, 2015-05

Microsoft Windows-NT, used by Social Security Administration, IRS, Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies, 98-36

Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19

Section 508, 87‑29, 90‑07, 97-03, 97-32

Support for the TEACH Act, 2013-03

Task Force on Access to Information via Computer, 79‑11

Urges Department of Justice to apply Title III of the ADA to website proprietors who deny access to their websites via inaccessible CAPTCHAs, 2007-21

Urges developers of adaptive technology to develop software or hardware to interface with palm top products, urges RESNA to appropriate funds to conduct research into the development of adaptive palm top computers, and demands that manufacturers incorporate a way for people who are B/VI to access them, 98-31

Urges manufacturers of hardware and software designed specifically to be used by people who are blind to make a commitment to provide training materials in hard copy braille upon request, 2010-18

Urges web site developers who require CAPTCHAs on their sites to utilize at least one word-based CAPTCHA alternative, 2013-07

Windows access, 96-20, 97-05, 2015-05

CONSUMERS ON AGENCY BOARDS AND OTHER GOVERNING BODIES (see also BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, Education of the Public):

Generally, 78‑19, 80‑17, 86‑27

Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, 86‑30
Health and Human Services Programs, 69‑07
National Accreditation Council, 86‑27
National Advisory Committee on the Blind and Visually Handicapped, 74‑16
Organizations of Disabled Athletes, 85‑17
Private Agencies Serving the Blind and Receiving Rehabilitation Act Funds, 81‑09, 90‑13
Sets forth principles which ACB believes should govern the operation of all private facilities serving persons who are blind, 2000-24

CONVENTION MATTERS (see also ACCESS; AFFILIATES; BRAILLE; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; GUIDE DOGS; INTERNAL MATTERS):

Accessibility of Convention Hotels

ACB president to meet with GDUI president and the chairperson of the convention committee to develop recommendations concerning future conventions, which will be presented to both boards at the 1999 midyear board meeting, 98-37
ACB will not enter into any future contracts for hotels, meeting rooms and convention sites without first requesting that all computer-generated print materials be made available in accessible formats, 2000-33
All future convention hotels and related facilities must be covered by fire safety codes and/or regulations, 2014-05
Convention Program Committee to incorporate workshops, seminars, one-on-one training, master classes, and other opportunities emphasizing skills development, 99-35

Generally, 78‑08

Audible message retrieval, 87-27
Braille and large print markings on cosmetics in convention hotels, 2022-08
Braille signage in hotels, 2016-16
Braille unification, directs that the 2002 convention program include a general session program item addressing the issues of Braille unification, 2001-03
Children, directs convention committee to include activities for young children whose parents are attending the convention, 2000-34
Convention Committee and board, requests they explore the possibility of holding the national convention during dates that do not include a holiday
Expresses indignation at the failure of RFB&D to attend the 1998 convention of ACB, and calls for assurances that unequal treatment will not continue in the future, 98-40
Low vision issues, 84‑22
Require the exhibit coordinator to participate during all stages of the convention planning process, including site selection, 99-39
Rescinds the direction of the ACB board to not consider convention sites outside the territorial United States, 99-21
Restores future conventions to no less than their former seven-day length, 99-01
Room markings, 86-12
Shuttle services, accessibility to all convention attendees, 2004-23
Talking Signs, 90-09

Annual Birthday Party, special budget category, 86‑11

Appointment of Convention Coordinator, 89‑09

Access to Stairs, 95-11

Conduct of Convention Business

Access of guide dogs to convention events, 87‑06
Business to be concluded by 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, 76‑12
Certification of voting members, 77‑08
Conditional exclusion of certain exhibitors, 85‑09, 98-39, 99-30
Encourages other manufacturers of assistive technology to increase research and development of competitively priced alternatives to all Blazie products including refreshable braille displays, and refers the matter of Blazie’s refusal to attend ACB conventions to the board for further action, 98-39
Delegate certification, 87‑25
Effect of resolution, 87‑14, 87‑15
No business to be conducted during time scheduled for invited speakers, 76‑08
Open meeting policy, 86‑18, 87‑14
Pledge of Allegiance to be restored at national conventions, 97-27
Smoking prohibited, 84‑23

Equal service at conventions, Blazie Engineering, 97-06

Expenses of Ambassador Award Recipient, 64‑07

Expenses of Officers and Board Members, 64‑05

Guide dog user on convention committee, 95-18

Including guide dog representative in the site selection process, 2005-22

Hotels with Audible Message Retrieval, 87‑27

Low Vision Access Issues

Environmental, 84‑22
Large print program, 87‑36, 88‑15

Press Coverage at conventions, 96-04, 96-25

Registration Issues

Direct hotel registration, 91‑14
Pre‑registration material in accessible media, 83‑27, 87‑36, 88‑15, 88‑22, 91‑23

Resolutions

Effect, 87‑14, 87‑15
Follow‑up as permanent agenda item for Board, 87‑15
Implementation, 79‑04, 87‑15
Review of resolutions and presentation of report at each annual conference, 2022-12

Site Selection, 78‑08, 87‑27, 89‑09

COPYRIGHT

ACB to work in coalition with AFB and, as appropriate, with other organizations representing people with disabilities, regarding access to information, 2013-11

ACB supports an international treaty on copyright exceptions and limitations that will allow producers of books for people with print-reading disabilities to share them with individuals in other countries, 2011-01

Access to reading materials worldwide, 2008-07

Supports the International Association of Audio Information Services in its call for substantial improvement in audio fidelity over that of existing analog sub-carrier transmissions, 2004-21

Urges Congress to amend existing copyright law to expand the exemption categories set forth in the Chaffee amendment to include large print as a valid specialized format, 2001-16

COUNCIL OF SCHOOLS FOR THE BLIND

Schools for the blind, ACB supports and will provide assistance to affiliates in states where closing of the residential school may be imminent, 98-10

CREDIT CARDS (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CREDIT UNION; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE):

ACB strongly encourages encourage retail chains to install keypad PIN‑entry devices so that blind and visually impaired people have equal access to secure and private point‑of‑sale transactions, 2005-12

Banking Services, standards, 86‑07

Committee on Personal Identification, 71‑01

Urges issuers of credit cards to use best practices in implementing the ADA by providing statements to blind and visually impaired customers in accessible formats, and also urges that braille markings be placed on credit cards when requested, 99-07

Use Conditioned on Having Valid Driver’s License, 87‑16

CREDIT UNION (see also ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE): 64‑06, 65‑03, 67‑08

CURRENCY IDENTIFICATION AND DESIGN (see also ACCESS; RANDOLPH-SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM):

“Clipped Corner” System, 80‑04

Commending Chelsea Ross for her resolution in Nebraska championing the cause of accessible currency, 2007-06

Commending the U.S. Mint and State of Alabama government for the Helen Keller design on the Alabama quarter, 2004-01

Concept of tactile identification, 78‑24, 79‑23

Federal government must produce paper currency that is fully accessible to and usable by people who are blind or visually impaired, 2014-06

Human factors research, 77‑07

Legislative committee to make proposals, 72‑08

Reaffirms a commitment to the design and implementation of paper money that is identifiable by people who are blind and visually impaired and expresses support of the litigation currently being undertaken by ACB, 2004-30

Tactile identification of currency, 92-02

Urges the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to rescind the requirement that electronic currency identifiers are only distributed to patrons who affirm their U.S. citizenship in writing, and reiterates ACB’s demand for accessible paper currency, 2015-07

Urges Congress and the President to enact legislation implementing the rulings of District Court Judge James Robertson in American Council of the Blind v. Secretary of the United States Treasury, 2007-29

D

DEAF‑BLIND (see also ACCESS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; EDUCATION; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

ACB Members Encouraged to Communicate with, 64‑08

Access

to air travel, 80‑22
to local news, 64‑09

Advisability of Insignia, 62‑11

Airfare Concessions When Traveling with a Companion/Guide, 73‑03

American National Standards Institute, participation in standards development, 78‑03

Assistance Dogs, 91‑22

Braille E-Reader Prioritization, 2021-35

Braille text telephones, 92-17

Elevator Markings

ANSI proposals inadequate 78‑01
Need for both braille and large print, 78‑02
Need for uniformity, 74‑04

Employment on Capitol Hill, 85‑04

Equality of Various Programs with Those for Veterans, 74‑12

Expanding relationships with airlines, guide dog users, 2018-10

Federal Funding of Communications Devices, 62‑06

Funding of Good Cheer Magazine, 74‑07

Funding of National Center for Deaf‑Blind Youths and Adults, 73‑04

Increased Public Assistance, 64‑10

Involvement in Consumer Advocacy Seminars, 78‑19

Legislative Use of term “Deaf‑Blind,” 73‑05

Pedestrian safety and gathering data about pedestrian-vehicle accidents in which there is an injury or death to blind/visually impaired pedestrian, 2011-03

Provision of supported employment services to, 93-09

Referred to ACB Board, 84‑19

To support service provider at the Paralympics, 2021-25

Training of interpreters, 92-16

Training of Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors, 64‑11

DECADE OF DISABLED PERSONS (see also NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HANDICAPPED; RELATIONS WITH OTHER Organizations):

White House Conference on Disabled Persons, 84‑13

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Calls on RSA to exercise its existing monitoring and oversight authorities under the Randolph-Sheppard Act to obtain full compliance with the requirements by chronically non-complying federal property management agencies such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense, 99-10

Commends the Access Board upon its promulgation of the long-awaited and anticipated final rule revising, updating and harmonizing the accessibility provisions of both the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG) and the Minimum Government Requirements for Accessible Design (MGRAD) under the Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), 2004-20

Instructs ACB and RSVA to urge the Department of Defense to work collaboratively with the Department of Education to eliminate any requirement for a lead contractor in multi-state military dining facility contracts, 2024-11

Microsoft Windows-NT, used by Social Security Administration, IRS, Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies, 98-36

Urges RSA commissioner to stand firm against assaults on the Randolph-Sheppard program, 98-05

Urges RSA commissioner to develop and issue unambiguous instructions which quantify how Randolph-Sheppard programs can successfully bid for DOD contracts, 98-06

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

ACB supports and endorses the expressed intent of Congress in the Randolph-Sheppard Act, and the implementing expression in regulations of the Department of Education and in the preamble to such regulations, 2004-26

Asks the Department of Education to work cooperatively with colleges and universities throughout the country to create or expand programs that will assure that teachers who must work with blind and visually impaired children can receive the specialized training they need, 2009-21

Calls upon the Department of Education to undertake a study to see how many children who are blind/visually impaired are being served by private and charter schools, 2010-16

Congratulating and welcome NCLVI doctoral fellows to ACB, 2006-16

Directs ACB to join with RSVA in arranging a meeting between Commissioner Fred Schroeder and others to raise the issue of the politicization of RSA, 99-40

Expresses disdain for rule changes proposed by the Rehabilitation Services Administration concerning placement credit for disabled workers in non-integrated, non-competitive settings, 2000-16

Urges RSA to promulgate an NPRM which strongly encourages state vocational rehabilitation agencies to provide assistive technology to blind clients who are job-seeking, 2000-13

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

ACB strongly urges the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to commit to responding to complaints, at a maximum within one year of their receipt, 2009-15

Instructs ACB’s officers and board of directors to send a letter to the United States Department of Justice, within 30 days of the adoption of this resolution, in support of the complaint of Guide Dog Users, Inc. against the Iowa Department for the Blind, 2003-06

Law School Admission Test, treatment of test-takers who are blind, 2004-04

Promotes adoption by the Department of Justice of an amended definition within ADA regulations clarifying the role of animals trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate a person’s disability, 2001-21

Sidewalks, recommends that the Access Board, the United States Department of Transportation and the United States Department of Justice require that, whenever a road or bridge is constructed or reconstructed in a public right-of-way, sidewalks shall be included, unless technically infeasible, 2002-23

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

ACB to formally urge the United States Department of Transportation to take action to regulate the operation of all "quiet motor vehicles" to require the inclusion of sound emission devices, 2006-09

Sidewalks, recommends that the Access Board, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Justice require that, whenever a road or bridge is constructed or reconstructed in a public right-of-way, sidewalks shall be included, unless technically infeasible, 2002-23

DIABETES (see also HEALTH):

Access to blood glucose monitoring equipment, 2006-06

Access to insulin pumps, 2006-20, 2009-05

Access to the widest possible array of testing options, 2013-17

Accessible materials from American Diabetes Association, 2006-19

Collins-Shaheen bill (the Insulin Act), 2022-25

Continuous glucose monitors and glucometers, access to, 2006-06, 2017-21, 2023-01

Coverage of needles for insulin injections, 2023-02

Diabetes Forecast (with advertising) in Accessible Media, 84‑17

Medicare Coverage of Therapeutic Shoes, 85‑29

Reduction of insulin cost, 2023-03

Urges manufacturers of blood glucose level testing devices to modify their newer and more advanced models so that they are accessible to, and independently usable by, people who are blind or have low vision, offers consultation and technical assistance to manufacturers as these modifications are designed and implemented, and urges that Medicare, Medicaid, and private third-party payers provide coverage for these newer and more advanced devices, 2002-07

DISABILITY RIGHTS

ACB repudiates the notion that the disability rights movement began with the Independent Living movement in California in the 1970s, 2010-02

Achieving more permanent settlement in, 2022-16

Expresses support of S. 1529, the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, and urges Congress to include language in the bill to address the rising rate of hate crimes against blind people and guide dog teams, 98-30

Expresses support for legislation strengthening penalties against hate crimes involving persons with disabilities, 99-34

Public transit and shopping malls that aren’t allowing transit vehicles to enter mall parking lots or let riders off, or pick them up near mall entrances, 98-33

Urges the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to withdraw opposition to a proposed treaty on disability rights, 2003-12

DISCRIMINATION (see also ACCESS; AIDS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CIVIL RIGHTS; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; GUIDE DOGS; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS; HOUSING; LEGAL MATTERS; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TAX MATTERS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

Generally, 72‑07, 88‑14

American Lutheran Church, 85‑06

Anti‑Discrimination Legislation, 72‑07, 84‑04, 94-11

By police/law enforcement in dealing with people with visual and/or hearing disabilities, 2020-10

By Skydive Las Vegas to refuse to allow a person to skydive solely on the basis that he or she is blind or visually impaired, 2005-31

Employment (Title VII), 79‑15, 85‑12, 91‑06

Guide dog denials in ride-share services, ACB and GDUI request that the U.S. Department of Justice determine whether the ongoing lack of effective action by ride-share companies to prevent drivers from denying service to guide dog users equals a discriminatory pattern of practice, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 2023-14

Guide dogs on planes, regulations regarding, 2017-05

Housing, 80‑10

Insurance, 84‑07

Non‑discrimination as Condition of Tax-Exempt Status and Purchase by Federal Government, 65‑10

Non‑discrimination by the National Library Service Against Those with AIDS, 90‑10

Travel Industry, 84‑04

DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT

Access to, and ACB’s support of, 2023-01

E

ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE (see also AFFILIATES; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; POSTAL MATTERS, Free Matter; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TAX MATTERS; TECHNOLOGY, Financial Assistance Toward Purchase; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TITLE XX):

ACB supports H.R. 1601 and S. 285, which restores the Social Security linkage for people who are blind, 99-33

Deploring mendicancy, 64‑12

Directs ACB staff to work with Congress, the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, and Social Security to insure that blinded railroad workers under the age of 65 are provided with a substantial gainful activity level equivalent to the earnings limit provided to blinded workers under the Social Security Act, 99-20

Equality with Programs for Veterans, 74‑12

Exempt Earnings, Federal Aid to the Blind, 69‑09

Exempt Earnings for Social Security Retirees and SSDI Beneficiaries, 89‑10

Federal Grants in Aid, access to State rules, regulations and plans, 62‑14

Federal Program of Aid to the Blind, 69‑06

Tax Cut Policy, 80‑12

Title XX, 78‑20

EDUCATION (see also ACCESS; AERBVI; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLIND TEACHERS; BRAILLE; COMPUTERS; DEAF‑BLIND; DISCRIMINATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PUBLIC LAWS, P.L. 94‑142; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

21^st Century Telecommunications Act, H.R. 3101, 2010-03 (later the 21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act), 2010-03

21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008, H.R. 6320, 2008-12

Access to educational materials for blind parents who have sighted children, 2007-01

Access to reading materials worldwide, 2008-07

Accessibility of Common College Application, 2018-05

Achievement and Other Tests in Accessible Media, 77‑02, 90‑05

Adobe PDF, making the accessible document setting the default, 2013-09

Anne Sullivan Macy Act, 2012-06

Attitudes of Elementary and Secondary Students Toward Blindness, 89‑04

Braille Issues

addition of braille literacy issues to re-authorization of IDEA, 94-19, 95-20
appropriateness of braille instruction for low vision students, 87‑01
BANA and Braille Codes, 2011-04
inadequate braille instruction in public and residential schools, 87‑01

Calls upon Congress to substantially increase the appropriation for personnel preparation under Part D of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, and to earmark meaningful personnel preparation appropriations to fund university programs training TVIs, 2000-37

Calls upon the Department of Education to undertake a study to see how many children who are blind/visually impaired are being served by private and charter schools, 2010-16

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Computers and the Internet

Coordination of Curricula Between Public and Residential Schools, 75‑14

Copyrighted materials and access

ACB to work in coalition with AFB and, as appropriate, with other organizations representing people with disabilities, regarding access to information, 2013-11

Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letter on braille, 2013-02

Demand for updated, more comprehensive education policy guidance by 2024, 2022-19

Different braille codes for mathematical instruction, 2016-04

Directs ACB president and executive director to determine the number of ACB members who are not Internet users; establish policies which minimize the communication disadvantages to this population without diminishing the benefits of the Internet for the organization; and promote activities, communications, and programs to encourage and facilitate more Internet use by non‑users, 2005-15

Education of the Blind and Visually Impaired

Dedicated facilities for multiply handicapped students preferred, 68‑01
Definition of all students, 96-23
Equal educational opportunity for the blind, 75‑21
Equality with programs for veterans, 74‑12
Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04
Federal equivalency diploma exam in Spanish, 80‑15
Graduate Record Exam; directs ACB officers, directors and staff to contact officials at ETS to insist upon the use of Section 508 or W3C standards when designing the next generation of the GRE and its preparatory materials, 2006-07
Hadley School for the Blind, foreign language courses, 91‑10
Institute for Special Education, 73‑06
Law School Admission Test, treatment of test-takers who are blind, 2004-04
Least restrictive environment, 89‑05, 91‑11
Needs of individual student as controlling factor, 91‑11

Incandescent light bulbs, 2011-21

Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19

Non-vocational rehabilitation, 2019-16

Oppose services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, 93-12

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Outlines changes which ACB will include in its legislative strategy to incorporate into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act during its reauthorization, 2001-19

Protect the integrity of assessments conducted by teachers of the visually impaired by rejecting calls which expressly or impliedly require the use of the National Reading Media Assessment (NRMA) or any other single specific assessment tool or technique to determine the learning or literacy needs of all students who are blind or visually impaired, 2016-02

Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, seven core principles, 2004-19

Recording for the Blind, funding, 88‑20

Relocation of Rehabilitation Services Administration, 87‑23

Schools for the blind, ACB supports and will provide assistance to affiliates in states where closing of the residential school may be imminent, 98-10

Shortage of trained personnel, 84‑16

Standards for training programs, 84‑16

Support for the TEACH Act, 2013-03

Support for both P.L. 89‑313 and P.L. 94‑142, 91‑11

Student resource study committee, 90‑18

Support for TVIs with vision loss, and driver assistance for, 2016-11

Updating and issuing policy guidance concerning the education of students with vision loss by the end of 2012, 2011-14

Urges manufacturers of hardware and software designed specifically to be used by people who are blind to make a commitment to provide training materials in hard copy braille upon request, 2010-18

Urges web site developers who require CAPTCHAs on their sites to utilize at least one word-based CAPTCHA alternative, 2013-07

Using the notetaking method of the student’s choice, 2020-07

Education of the Public About Blindness (see BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT, Education of the Public)

EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT (see also ACCESS; AERBVI; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; BRAILLE; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; MULTIPLY‑HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; PUBLIC LAWS; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEVISION):

Attorney Fees Legislation, 85‑01

Calls upon the Department of Education to undertake a study to see how many children who are blind/visually impaired are being served by private and charter schools, 2010-16

Calls on the executive branch and Congress to provide appropriations for all authorized, but unfunded, categorical programs intended to serve people who are blind, without diminishing current annual allocations, 98-15

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Copyrighted materials and access

ACB to work in coalition with AFB and, as appropriate, with other organizations representing people with disabilities, regarding access to information, 2013-11

Department of Education “Dear Colleague” letter on braille, 2013-02

Different braille codes for mathematical instruction, 2016-04

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of School, 2017-04

Issues and amendments in re-authorization of IDEA, 94-19, 95-20

Least Restrictive vs. Most Enabling Environment, 89‑05, 91‑11

Mandatory Braille Instruction in Appropriate Cases, 87‑01

Microsoft Windows 10, failure to ensure full accessibility of, 2015-05

Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19

“Not kind” to Low Incidence Disability Groups, 90‑06

Outlines changes which ACB will include in its legislative strategy to incorporate into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act during its reauthorization, 2001-19

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, seven core principles, 2004-19

Relocation of Rehabilitation Services Administration, 87‑23

Support and Points of Special Emphasis, 77‑18

Support for TVIs with vision loss, and driver assistance for, 2016-11

Urges web site developers who require CAPTCHAs on their sites to utilize at least one word-based CAPTCHA alternative, 2013-07

Video description provisions, 94-19

EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BRAILLE; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT, Certification Issues; STUDENTS):

Achievement and Other Tests in Accessible Media, 90‑05

Directs ACB officers, directors and staff to contact officials at ETS to insist upon the use of Section 508 or W3C standards when designing the next generation of the GRE and its preparatory materials, 2006-07

Law School Admission Test, treatment of test-takers who are blind, 2004-04

EMPLOYMENT (see also ACCESS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; ART; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLIND TEACHERS; BRAILLE; CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPUTERS; DISCRIMINATION; EDUCATION; EDUCATION TESTING SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; INTERNSHIP PROGRAM; KENNELLY HIGHWAY VENDING PROGRAM; MINIMUM WAGE; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; RANDOLPH‑SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS; SECTION 503; SECTION 504; SECTION 508; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUBMINIMUM WAGE; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME, Exempt Earnings; TAX MATTERS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; WORK‑STUDY PROGRAM):

ACB to contact each of the commissioners and the principal staff of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and demand that the Commission include in its reasonable accommodations document complete and appropriate guidance on assistive technology accommodations for federal employees who are blind or who have low vision, 2016-08

ACB to increase its focus on employment through working collaboratively with thought leaders in the employment arena to hold a summit on employment and challenges impacting people who are blind or have low vision, 2024-09

ACB urges Congress to strengthen and revitalize the Randolph-Sheppard program, 2007-30

ACB urges that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission add to its annual EEOC-1 form the category “blind and visually impaired,” 2000-28

ACB urges RSA and Congress to address an array of serious failures in sound public policy embodied in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) and its proposed implementing regulations, 2015-08

Access to documents in accessible formats for federal retirees, 2012-11

Adaptive technology, government assistance in payment of for employment, 93-05

Advancement Through the Ranks, 78‑21, 82‑01

Anti‑Discrimination Legislation

Generally, 72‑07, 78‑21

Civil Rights Act of 1964, 78‑21

P.L. 94‑142, 78‑21

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 78‑21, 85‑12

Title VII, remedies, 79‑15, 85‑12, 91‑06, 2002-01

Armed Forces, 80‑14

Assisting Affiliates in Improving Employment Opportunities, 75‑05

Opposition to National Council on Independent Living’s position paper on job services consolidation, 95-06

Opposition to NCD’s 14(c) recommendations, 2014-09

Certification Issues

court reporters, 74‑08
data processors, 77‑02
low vision orientation and mobility instructors, 86‑03
teachers, 64‑03

Competitive employment, definition of, 97-22

Earned Income Tax Credit for Persons with Disabilities, 90‑16

Ecological Service Corps, 71‑02

Employees in Sheltered Workshops (see also SHELTERED WORKSHOPS), 81‑10

Employers Commended

Civil Service Commission, 76‑03
Control Data Corporation, 67‑04
Federal Aviation Administration, 67‑04
Internal Revenue Service, 76‑03
Social Security Administration, 76‑03
Veterans Administration, 76‑03

Employment of the Deaf‑Blind on Capitol Hill, 85‑04

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 85‑13

Equality with Programs for Veterans, 74‑12

Exemption of Congress from Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 87‑30

Federal Employees (see FEDERAL EMPLOYEES)

Federal Equivalency Diploma Exam in Spanish, 80‑15

H.R. 1617, 95-04

Importance of

public transportation, 80‑08
technology, 83-11, 85‑09

Internal Revenue Service

Commended as employer, 76‑03
Employment opportunities and upward mobility, 82‑01

Internship Program in ACB and ACBES Offices, 90‑15

Job services consolidation, ACB position on, 94-25, 95-04

Lions Clubs International

On its 100^th year of service, 2017-03
Requesting clubs to focus on services to blind people, 92-22

Need for Employment‑Related Magazine, 91‑27

National Council on Independent Living

opposes paper on job training consolidation, 95-06

Randolph-Sheppard priority in danger, 2017-09

Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act, 91‑20

Recruitment of Minority Group Candidates for ACB Board and Staff Positions, 85‑15

S. 143, 95-04

Sections 501, 503 and 504, inadequate scope of protection, 85‑12

St. Louis Lighthouse Strike, 67‑05

Supported Employment Seminar, 87‑33

Supported employment services, provision of to deaf-blind, 93-09

Tax Credit or Concession to Private Industry, 65‑06, 81‑22, 83‑07, 91‑13

Transition Team Training, 86‑34, 87‑33

Urges RSA to promulgate an NPRM which strongly encourages state vocational rehabilitation agencies to provide assistive technology to blind clients who are job-seeking, 2000-13

Veterans, chief of centers and clinics, 87‑22

Work‑Study Program, 70‑01

ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY

Requests the entertainment industry take steps to have increased and accurate representation of characters that are blind or visually impaired, more employment opportunities for B/VI professionals, a prohibition on sighted actors portraying blind people, and equal opportunities for actors who are blind or visually impaired to both audition for and portray characters not written as blind or visually impaired, 2010-11

ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE (see also ACCESS, Architecture and Environment; CONVENTION MATTERS, Accessibility of Convention Hotels; INTERNAL MATTERS, Committees; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

Access to appliances and electronic devices, 2004-22

Access to instructions and product information for appliances, 2000-04

Access to the indoor built environment, 2017-22

Accessible paths through parking lots, 2013-15

Access to sports stadia, 2008-10

Accessible/Audible Pedestrian/Traffic Signals, 2010-01, 2017-22, 2017-24

Amendments to MUTCD to include an APS, 2019-06
Endorsed, 83‑20
Installed
Oakland, California, 86‑24
Salt Lake City, 80‑24
uniform national standards, 91‑12
Consultation with CCLVI, 83‑26
Creation, 78‑03, 81‑08, 86‑08, 89‑13
Crosswalk Markings, 86‑09
Directional Tiles, 85‑22, 86‑08

Airlines

JetBlue, access to website and request for a toll-free telephone alternative for those who don’t have the Internet, 2008-04

Electrically Powered Vehicles, 91‑25

Hybrid vehicles, retrofitting them to comply with the standards that will be adopted by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act, 2012-09
Self-driving vehicles, 2017-22
Shared mobility devices, 2019-15

Follow‑up on Barrier Removal Resolutions, affiliates’ role, 86‑12

Hotel Room Markings, 86‑12

Paratransit policy to be developed, 84‑28

Quiet cars

ACB to advocate for federal requirements that would withhold federal highway funds from any state that fails to adopt legislation requiring a firm deadline, after which date any motorist operating a motorized vehicle failing to have significant, measurable sound emission, which is emitted both during moving and idling phases, shall be subject to a fine, in the same manner that a motorist may be fined for driving without headlights after sundown, 2007-11
ACB to formally urge the United States Department of Transportation to take action to regulate the operation of all "quiet motor vehicles" to require the inclusion of sound emission devices, 2006-09
ACB urges Congress and the President of the United States to promptly enact H.R. 734 and S. 841, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, 2009-01
ACB urges Congress and the President of the United States to promptly enact H.R. 5734, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008, 2008-13

Urges the FCC to require that weather notices, telephone numbers, Internet addresses and similar information contained in PSAs, emergency announcements and commercials be verbally announced, 2000-05

EXERCISE AND FITNESS EQUIPMENT

Require that all exercise equipment and medical devices provide output of health data and other information in an accessible format, 2023-01

EYE RESEARCH (see also AIDS AND APPLIANCES; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; HEALTH; LOW VISION):

Calls upon governmental research entities to increase their blindness treatment research budgets, 98-08

Creation of Research Center on Blindness and Mobility, 74‑14

General Support, 62‑01

National Eye Institute, allocation of research focused on low vision, 81‑06

National Foundation for Retinitis Pigmentosa, 72‑03

National Institute for Handicapped Research, low vision as research and training priority, 82‑16

Prevention of Blindness, 62‑01

“ROSE” project, 80‑23

Segways, ACB opposes S. 2024, urges affiliates to oppose state legislation permitting operation of the Segway on sidewalks; and directs its staff and environmental access committee to initiate a dialogue with Segway LLC in an attempt to address the safety hazards inherent in the operation of the Segway, 2002-04

F

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

ACB to advocate directly with streaming video providers, broadcast and non-broadcast networks, to pass through existing audio-described content, 2024-12

Calls upon the FCC to mandate the granting of at least 60 kilobits per second of all digital TV signals for services that allow for full access to information for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or have other print disabilities; companion to 98-23, 98-25

Calls upon the FCC to vote to adopt a final rule implementing Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act Amendments of 1996, 99-19

Congratulates the FCC for its leadership in issuing proposed video description requirements and urges the commissioners to adopt the rule as proposed, 2000-19

Demands that the FCC immediately implement a plan to hire professionals with expertise in blindness and visual impairment, 2015-03

NBC-Universal two-year petition for waiver of audio description requirements (USA Network), 2019-04

Requests that the FCC require that adequate bandwidth or data stream be made available on digital TV, digital audio broadcasting, or any other digital information delivery systems to be used exclusively for radio reading services, 98-23

Urges the FCC to require satellite and cable companies to make listings of the stations they receive and the day’s programming for each channel fully accessible to blind and visually impaired subscribers, 99-03

Urges the FCC to require that weather notices, telephone numbers, Internet addresses and similar information contained in PSAs, emergency announcements and commercials be verbally announced, 2000-05

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES (see also EMPLOYMENT; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS):

Accessibility of computers purchased by federal government, 87‑29

Construction of Reader Act, 76‑22

Federal judges, 92-08

Handbook on Handicapped Employees, 75‑12

Readers, 70‑05, 76‑22, 87‑32

Reasonable Accommodations, effect of line-item budgets, 87‑32

FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION

CMS and FDA should require that all exercise equipment and medical devices provide output of health data and other information in an accessible format, 2023-01

FOREIGN CONCERNS (see also WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND):

Democracy‑Related Materials for Other Countries, 62‑05

Nairobi Protocol, 85‑28

Recycling Braille to Underdeveloped Countries, 80‑01

Women in Under‑Developed Countries, 76‑09

FREE MATTER FOR THE BLIND (see also NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; POSTAL MATTERS; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND):

Affiliates to document problems, 84‑15

Continuation of privilege, 69‑04

Delivery of, 2021-29

Enforcement of regulations, 94-04

First‑Class Three Ounce Limit Rate for Braille and Recorded Material, 71‑03

Funding, 82‑06

Items sent via Free Matter returned to sender (without being delivered), 2008-17

Tape Recordings, 62‑13

Urges the United States Postmaster General to release a proclamation commemorating the passage of the “free matter for the blind” statutes, 2004-05

FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC

ACB urges Freedom Scientific to provide complete JAWS cassette tutorials until such time as NLS completes its conversion to DAISY format, 2006-08

Commends Freedom Scientific upon its formation, and commends Freedom Scientific’s initial involvement with the blind community, 2000-25

FUND‑RAISING (see also AFFILIATES; ART; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; INTERNAL MATTERS):

Affiliated Leadership League, standards, 81‑20

Affiliates, fund‑raising for ACB, 89‑03, 97-25

Fund‑Raising Committee, 73‑01

FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED (see also CONVENTION MATTERS; GUIDE DOGS, Hawaii Quarantine; INTERNSHIP PROGRAM; RANDOLPH‑SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM; SECTION 504):

Actually

ACB materials in accessible media, 78‑11, 83‑27

affiliate strengthening and development, 86‑11

consumer advocacy training projects, 80‑17

convention expenses of Ambassador Award recipient, 64‑07

Deaf‑Blind, braille bulletins of local news, 64‑09

expenses of national fund solicitation, 73‑01

Hawaii quarantine, "fullest material support" to Aloha Council, 84‑26

internship program in ACB and ACBES offices, 90‑15

publicizing program of recycling braille to underdeveloped countries, 80‑01

Section 504 complaints concerning access to public laws and regulations, 89‑16

Voter registration drives, 80‑20, 83‑15, 83‑21

In Principle

ACB materials in accessible media, 78‑11, 79‑10, 83‑27, 91‑23

BANA‑NUTC 1982 conference on braille for English‑speaking countries 80‑07

Consumer advocacy seminars, 78‑19, 80‑17

Development of documentary and promotional “spots,” 75‑17

Enforcement of Randolph‑Sheppard Act 1974 amendments, 76‑20

against Department of Veterans Affairs, 91‑24
in public buildings built with public funds, 76‑18
preventing states’ withdrawal from program, 86‑10
enforcement of Rehabilitation Amendments of 1973, Sections 501 through 504, 76‑21

Expenses of Board and Officers, 64‑05

Hawaii quarantine of guide dogs, 79‑07, 90‑14

Informational pamphlet, 79‑10

Legislative seminars, 83‑28

Public relations expert to coordinate educational “spot announcements,” 74‑02

Resolutions, Binding Effect, 87‑15

Services to deaf‑blind, 84‑19

Social Security Administration compliance with legal precedents, 85‑05

Task force on access to information via computer, 79‑11

Technical assistance to affiliates, 75‑13

G

GARRETT CASE

GENERAL COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND

Encourages GCIB to adopt a policy which advocates that persons who have blindness as their only employment-related disability receive at least the federal minimum wage; commends William S. Thompson, president of GCIB, for his efforts in aligning the organization with other blindness-related consumer and professional organizations concerning the minimum wage issues, 2000-21

GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

Proposed policies under the Randolph-Sheppard Act were developed by GSA without required consultation from RSA and other parties, circulation was improper; supports RSA Commissioner’s insistence that GSA revise its policy goals, 2000-39

Urges RSA commissioner to stand firm against assaults on the Randolph-Sheppard program, 98-05

GET UP AND GET MOVING CAMPAIGN, 2021-01

GUIDE DOGS (see also ACCESS; CIVIL RIGHTS; CONVENTION MATTERS; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; INTERNAL MATTERS; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE):

ACB calls upon the Department of Transportation to change certain recommendations contained in its proposed regulations under the Air Carrier Access Act, 2005-07

Access to Convention Events, 87‑06

Access to Vending Facilities, 94-02

Accreditation of Schools, 81‑01

Air Travel, 80‑22, 2021-13

As Equally Valid Mobility Option, 79‑09

Assistance Dogs, 91‑22

Boarding, 89‑08

Braille Forum, anti‑discrimination screening of providers requesting publicity, 79‑08

Commendation for two guide dog schools, 92-10

Defending guide dog users from interference from animal rights extremists, 93-03

"Digest of Legislation Relating to Travel with Dog Guides," 85‑11

Directs ACB staff to investigate the issue of business-related tax deductions for guide dog expenses, 2000-06

Dog Guide as Medical Expense, 75‑02

Federal Legislation Desirable to Achieve Uniformity, 74‑01, 75‑18

Guide Dogs for the Blind, change in leadership, issues with school, 2013-20

Guide dogs on planes, regulations regarding, 2017-05

Guide dog schools, working with graduates regarding downsizing, inclusion on boards, 2013-18

Harmonizing the Department of Transportation’s regulations on service dogs with those of the Department of Justice, 2013-05, 2016-14

Hawaii Quarantine, 79‑07, 84‑26, 89‑07, 90‑14

Housing Discrimination in California, 76‑17

Including guide dog representative in the site selection process, 2005-22

Interference with guide dogs and/or handlers, 97-33

Misrepresentation of service animals, 2014-01

Placing guide dog user on convention ACB committee, 95-18

Rideshare services, careful study of, and work with GDUI on a white paper, 2014-17

Service animal definition, promotes adoption by the Department of Justice of an amended definition within ADA regulations clarifying the role of animals trained to perform physical tasks to mitigate a person’s disability, 2001-21

Stephanie Dohmen matter, 2003-07

Instructs ACB’s officers and board of directors to send a letter to the United States Department of Justice, within 30 days of the adoption of this resolution, in support of the complaint of Guide Dog Users, Inc. against the Iowa Department for the Blind, 2003-06

Supports efforts by the International Federation of Guide Dog Schools to advocate for reasonable exemptions to permit guide dogs with appropriate identification, regardless of their country of origin, to accompany their blind handlers into, and out of, the United Kingdom, 2001-20

Thanks and praise to the Transportation Safety Administration for enforcing service dog relief areas within airport security, 2011-09

H

HEALTH (see also ACCESS; AIDS; COMMENDATIONS; DIABETES; DISCRIMINATION; EYE RESEARCH; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS; LOW VISION; MEDICAID/MEDICARE; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS):

ACB staff and officers to assist affiliates in advocating for expanded Medicaid coverage of dental services, 2000-15

Access to American Heart Association materials, 91‑01

Access to blood glucose monitoring equipment, 2006-06

Access to Diabetes Forecast, 84‑17

Access to diabetic/medical equipment, 2006-20, 2016-13, 2019-07, 2017-21

Access to electronic medical records, telehealth technologies, and health exchange and other related web sites, 2011-10

Access to the widest possible array of diabetes testing options, 2013-17

Access to prescription labels, 2011-12, 2018-09

Outrage at the National Council on Disability for failing to carry out a national public awareness initiative regarding accessible prescription labeling, 2015-09

Accessible Telehealth Care, 2021-12

Affordable Care Act, 2017-25

Calls on Congress to incorporate language to eliminate the foregoing list of health care disparities in its proposed health care reform legislation, 2009-06

Calls upon governmental research entities to increase their blindness treatment research budgets, 98-08

Commendation of National Braille Press and U.S. Surgeon‑General for Producing AIDS Information in Braille, 88‑23

Comprehensive Reform Legislation Supported, 91‑04

Consumers on Governing Bodies, organizations of disabled athletes, 85‑17

Directs ACB’s board of directors and staff to seek legislative or regulatory change to permit a research laboratory to disclose diagnostic findings to research subjects, 2002-16

Equality with Programs for Veterans, 74‑12

Health Care Portability Act, 96-19

Health Security Action Council, 73‑02

Labeling of Medicines and Dangerous Substances, 82‑15

Marijuana, medically supervised use in treatment of glaucoma, 85‑20

Mental health and wellness, 2021-34

National Health Insurance, Committee for, 73‑02

Non‑Discrimination by National Library Service Against HIV‑Infected Persons, 91‑10

Physical Fitness Projects Coordinating Committee established, 69‑10

Use of personal recording devices in medical settings, 2019-09

Vineland National Center Supported, 78‑22

HEALTH CARE FINANCE ADMINISTRATION

HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS (see also “AIDS”; COMMENDATIONS; DISCRIMINATION; HEALTH; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS):

Commendation of National Braille Press and U.S. Surgeon‑ General for Producing AIDS Information in Braille, 88‑23

Non‑discrimination by National Library Service, 91‑10

Task Force on Vocational Rehabilitation, 87‑31

HOSPITALS

HOUSING (see also AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CIVIL RIGHTS; Discrimination; GUIDE DOGS):

Advocacy for, 2022-27

Anti‑discrimination legislation, 80‑10, 83‑09

Fair Housing Amendments, 83‑09, 88‑13

I

INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES (see also ACCESS; ADULT BLIND; NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; PUBLIC LAWS; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION):

Access to appliances and electronic devices, 2004-22

Compliance Indicators, 89‑21

Discrimination Against Blind and Visually Impaired in the Provision of Services, 88‑11

For the Elderly, 84‑24, 87‑34, 97-14

Funding, 80‑02, 87‑34, 97-14

Grants for independent living, 2017-14

Non-vocational rehabilitation, 2019-16

Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act, 91‑20, 91‑29

Relationship to Vocational Rehabilitation, 80‑02, 93-13

INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERS

INSTITUTE OF TRAFFIC ENGINEERS

Directs ACB staff to request the assistance of the Institute of Traffic Engineers to convene a meeting of leaders of the automobile industry, and federal, state, and local highway planning entities, to initiate research to identify vehicle and road surface features, which can generate audible aspects to the movement of traffic, 2002-12

INTERNAL MATTERS (see also ACCESS; AFFILIATES; BRAILLE; CONVENTION MATTERS; EMPLOYMENT; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; GUIDE DOGS; LEGAL MATTERS; UNFINISHED BUSINESS):

ACB Materials in Accessible Media

Generally, 91‑23
Braille Forum, 88‑22, 2022-07
Communication with affiliates, 78‑11, 83‑27
Convention materials, guidelines, 87‑36, 88‑15
Informational pamphlet, 79‑10

Attitudes toward blindness, instructional materials for elementary and secondary students, 89‑04

Award categories within ACB, 96-30

George Card Award committee, 76‑19
Guidelines for Ambassador and George Card awards, development and transmission, 76‑19

Barrier removal, 78‑03

Blindness Hall of Fame, 2004-16

Board of Directors

directs ACB's Board of Directors to establish a mechanism to inform the membership regarding upcoming board decisions, collect member input, and disseminate that input to the board prior to making decisions, 2024-06
resolutions follow‑up as permanent agenda item, 87‑15

Board of Publications, 2021-26, 2022-07

anti‑discrimination screening of providers requesting publicity, 79‑08
guidelines for braille and large print convention‑related materials, 87‑36, 88‑15
informational pamphlet to be prepared and distributed, 79‑10

Braille Forum

advertising availability of braille titles for purchase, 87‑20
anti‑discrimination screening of providers requesting publicity in Braille Forum, 79‑08
availability in variety of media, 88‑22
excluded from terms of, 91‑23
founded by Ned E. Freeman, 76‑05
implementation of resolutions, 87‑15
progress reports on coverage of handicapped under Civil Rights Act of 1964, 83‑22
purpose, 79‑08
reinstate 12 issues of the Forum in braille, large print, and digital cartridge, 2022-07
reports of committee on telephone charges, 72‑02

Bulletins of Activities and Accomplishments, 75‑13

Committees

Advisory Committee on Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act, 91‑20
Advocacy Services Committee, 2021-21
Ambassador Award Committee, 64‑07, 76‑19
Committee on Technology and Visual Impairment, 78‑12
Environmental access, 89‑13

Communications Network for ACB, 86‑35

Conventions (see CONVENTION MATTERS)

Convention

Encourages other manufacturers of assistive technology to increase research and development of competitively priced alternatives to all Blazie products including refreshable braille displays, and refers the matter of Blazie’s refusal to attend ACB conventions to the board for further action, 98-39

Cost of living adjustment for employed staff of ACB of 3.1 percent retroactive to the beginning of the current fiscal year, 2004-28

Directory assistance and other operator assistance charges, 72‑02

Employment opportunities, 64‑01

Formation of Regional Organizations, 67‑12

Fundraising, 73-01

ALL standards, 81‑20
by affiliates, 78‑16, 89‑03, 97-25
handicapped artists' priority, 78‑16

Gender-neutral language, 2021-26

Institute for Special Education, 73‑06

Internship in ACB office, 90‑15

Legislative committee

Working with task force on civil rights, 76‑01

Legislative Seminars (see also; AFB, JLTLI), 83‑28, 97-12

Life Membership

All monies received henceforth from life membership fees shall be placed in an account separate and apart from operating funds of the organization, and left there to accumulate and compound until the account reaches a balance of at least $50,000, after which the interest therefrom may be used annually by ACB without subtracting any of the principle, to which future life membership fees shall be added, 2005-14

Membership Committee, general, 2021-10

Membership Committee Interaction with Volunteer Training Committee, 72‑06
Membership lists, develop a system by which those affiliates who wish to convey membership roster information to the ACB national office by electronic means may do so, 98-26

Multicultural Affairs Committee, 2020-10, 2020-11, 2021-10, 2021-28

Ned E. Freeman Scholarship Fund established, 76‑05

Non‑voting Members, Board’s Authority to Establish Classes, 65‑11

Paid Personnel, participation in demonstrations, 77‑09

Personal Identification, 71‑01, 87‑16

Physical Fitness Projects Coordinating Committee, 69‑10

Radio reading services, study committee, 72‑01

Requests for materials, expedition of, 92-14

Recruitment of Minority Group Candidates for ACB Board and Staff Positions, 85‑15

Recruitment of Younger Members, 92-11

Resolutions

effect, 87‑15
follow‑up and implementation, 79‑04, 87‑15

Sight and Sound Impaired Committee, 2021-25

Signage, 81‑08

Standing committees, timely appointment, 84‑18

Student affiliate formation, 70‑04

Student resource study, 90‑18

Supported employment, 87‑33

Task force on civil rights, 76‑01

Task force on information access via computer, 79‑11

Training Seminars, 67‑10

Volunteer training committee, cooperation with membership committee, 72‑06

Writers’ affiliate formation, 74‑13

INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE (see also EMPLOYMENT, Internal Revenue Service; TAX MATTERS):

Access to Intuit Corp.’s software, 2000-02

Accessible documentation called for, 94-05

Commended as Employer, 76‑03

Commending the IRS for the training and hiring of persons who are blind or who have low vision, 2010-10

Directs ACB’s officers, directors, and staff to seek an immediate change in IRS policy which will result in its provision of materials in alternate formats to blind and visually impaired individuals, 2002-29

Directs ACB staff to investigate the issue of business-related tax deductions for guide dog expenses, 2000-06

Employment Opportunities, 82‑01

H.R. 571 and value of donated vehicles, 2009-07

H.R. 860 and tax credit for vehicle donations, 2011-07

Legibility of Forms by Those with Low Vision, 85-14

Upward Mobility In, 82‑01

Microsoft Windows-NT, used by Social Security Administration, IRS, Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies, 98-36

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDIO INFORMATION SERVICES (IAAIS, formerly the National Association of Radio Reading Services)

Assure that radio reading services be provided with allocated band width in the new standard defining and regulating digital radio broadcasting, 97-27

Encourages RSA to promote the use of all viable systems of information delivery for people who are blind/visually impaired, including radio reading services, Newsline for the Blind, and other dial-in systems, 98-22

Radio reading services, study committee, 72‑01

Supports the International Association of Audio Information Services in its call for substantial improvement in audio fidelity over that of existing analog sub-carrier transmissions, 2004-21

INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON ENGLISH BRAILLE

ACB does not endorse the Unified English Braille Code, 2001-27

ACB recommends that the Unified Braille Code not be adopted at this time, 99-43

ICEB (See BANA Braille Code Changes), 95-18

Unified English Braille, 2012-07

INTERNET

ADA applies to, 2006-17, 2016-05

Asks Google to include accessibility within the design phase of each product's development and implement accessibility from the beginning of each product cycle, 2010-12

Directs ACB president and executive director to determine, or cause to be determined, the number of ACB members who are not Internet users; establish policies which minimize the communication disadvantages to this population without diminishing the benefits of the Internet for the organization; and promote activities, communications, and programs to encourage and facilitate more Internet use by non‑users, 2005-15

Net neutrality, 2018-20

Rescinds the policy that requires ACB-L and ACB-Chat subscribers to provide identifying information over and above their names and e-mail addresses, 2004-02

Revisions to the implementing regulations to ensure that online-only public accommodations are covered by Title III, 2015-06

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM (see also EMPLOYMENT; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED): 90‑15

J

JAVITS‑WAGNER‑O’DAY ACT (see also MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SUBMINIMUM WAGE):

Expansion to Cover Other Handicaps Opposed, 68‑04

Fiftieth Anniversary, 88‑18

Program Improvements Needed, 82‑08

Sequestration, Call for Communications Strategy Using National Media, 2013-10

Support for NIB as separate agency, 94-17

K

KENNELLY HIGHWAY VENDING PROGRAM (see

also EMPLOYMENT; RANDOLPH‑SHEPPARD

VENDING PROGRAM): 90‑01

ACB vigorously opposes any attempt to repeal or otherwise

adversely affect the priority for licensed blind vendors

contained in Section 111(2) of the Surface

Transportation Act (the Kennelly Amendment),

2003-23

L

LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS (see also RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS):

ACB’s Participation Authorized, 75‑20

Membership in as Rationale for Support of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 91‑03

LEADERSHIP TRAINING SEMINARS

Directs ACB’s officers, directors and staff to establish provisions to make available a series of leadership training seminars, 2000-43

LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT (see also AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BRAILLE; COMPUTERS; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; LIBRARY SERVICES; LOW VISION; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PUBLIC LAWS, P.L. 94‑142; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL):

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04

Inadequate Braille Instruction in Public and Residential Schools, 87‑01

Location of Residential School as Affecting Training, 75‑19

Low Vision Students

Appropriateness of braille instruction, 87‑1
Low vision aids, P.L. 94‑142, 78‑10, 79‑20
Periodic vision exams, 79‑20

Most Enabling versus Least Restrictive Environment, 89‑05, 91‑11

LEGAL MATTERS (see also AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CIVIL RIGHTS; DISCRIMINATION; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; GUIDE DOGS; PUBLIC LAWS):

ABLA Members, encouraging use of, 87‑08

Administrative Procedure Act, Opposing Exemption of Certain Programs Affecting the Blind, 69‑01

Authorization of fees, P.L. 94‑142 cases, 85‑01

Authorization of Legal Action

Section 504 complaints re: access to public laws and regulations, 89‑16

Constitutional Rights

Censorship opposed, generally, 81‑23
Braille magazines, 81‑04
Playboy case, 86‑21
Dignity, 82‑05
Due process, 82‑05
Privacy, 82‑05
Right to travel, guide dog users, 79‑07

Court Reporter Certification Exam, use of Stenomask, 74‑08

Social Security Administration, compliance with legal precedents, 85‑05

LIBRARY SERVICES (see also ACCESS, Access to Information; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; EDUCATION; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

Marrakesh Treaty, 2018-11

Access to public libraries, 94-12, 2018-17

Access to public libraries’ digital collections, 2014-07

Call for White House Conference on Libraries and Information Services, 77‑04, 78‑14, 88‑10, 90‑20

NLS Procedures to Respond to Braille Correspondence, 92-03

Participation in Library Conferences, 77‑04, 78‑14, 88‑10, 90‑20

Strengthen ALA standards for network libraries, 94-13

Support for NLS to provide equipment to patrons for use with each of the formats produced by NLS; and urges Congress to promptly enact H.R. 5227, pending legislation to authorize NLS to offer digital braille reading equipment, 2016-06

LOW VISION (see also ACCESS; ACCREDITATION; AIDS and APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BRAILLE; CONVENTION MATTERS; EDUCATION; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; MEDICAID/MEDICARE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Accreditation of Service Providers, 84‑27

Aids

access to appliances and electronic devices, 2004-22
availability and delivery issues
generally, 79‑22
students and P.L. 94‑142, 78‑10, 79‑20

Bioptic Telescopes, 85‑21

Braille Instruction, 81‑05, 87‑01

Clear glass doors, 2017-20

Convention Accessibility Issues, 84‑22

Coverage

Comprehensive national health care plan, 91‑04
Medicare, 78‑09, 83‑18, 2006-15, 2022-18

Incandescent light bulbs, 2011-21

IRS forms, legibility, 85‑14

Labeling of Medicines and Dangerous Substances, 82‑15

Medicaid/Medicare Coverage

Aids, 78‑09, 83‑18, 2006-15
Eye care, testing and examinations, 83‑10, 83‑18

Mobility, special training of instructors, 80‑13

National Eye Institute, allocation of research, 81‑06

National Institute for Handicapped Research, low vision as research and training priority, 82‑16

Prescription labels, 2011-12, 2017-15, 2018-09

Outrage at the National Council on Disability for failing to carry out a national public awareness initiative regarding accessible prescription labeling, 2015-09

Testing of Children, 79‑20

Vocational Rehabilitation, special training for counselors, 80‑13

M

MAINSTREAMING (see also AERBVI; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; EDUCATION TESTING SERVICE; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

Braille Issues

appropriateness of braille instruction for low vision students, 87‑01
inadequate braille instruction in public and residential schools, 87‑01

Co‑existence of Public and Residential Schools, 68‑02, 73‑06, 75‑14

Coordination of Curricula Between Public and Residential Schools, 75‑14

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04

Institute for Special Education, 73‑06

National Accreditation Council Requested to Issue Standards, 71‑04

Opposes services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, directs ACB leadership to participate in an AFB initiative to attempt to resolve these concerns, 98-29

Opposition to the implementation of state-administered computerized common core assessments which do not permit students with disabilities to use their preferred assistive technology, 2013-04

Shortage of Orientation and Mobility Instructors, 90‑21

Student Resource Study Committee, 90‑18

MEDICAID/MEDICARE (see also DIABETES; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH; LOW VISION):

ACB supports the Medicare Vision Rehabilitation Services Act of 2001, 2001-17

ACB staff and officers to assist affiliates in advocating for expanded Medicaid coverage of dental services, 2000-15

ACB to pursue any and all legal remedies to address CMS’ inaccessible communications, 2016-10

Access to continuous glucose monitors and glucometers, 2017-21

Access to electronic medical records, telehealth technologies, and health exchange and other related web sites, 2011-10

Access to Medicare information in alternate formats, 2014-13

Access to the widest possible array of diabetes testing options, 2013-17

Accessible format versions of this packet available to recipients who are blind or have low vision at the same time as these materials are available for others, 2012-01

CMS and FDA should require that all exercise equipment and medical devices provide output of health data and other information in an accessible format, 2023-01

Affordable Care Act, 2017-25

Coverage
Case correspondence be provided to Medicare applicants and recipients in accessible formats, 2012-02
Communication and sensory aids, 83‑08
Diabetics’ therapeutic shoes, 85‑29
Eye care, examinations and testing, 83‑10, 83‑18, 85‑10
Home and community-based services, 2021-18
Low vision aids, 78‑09, 85‑10, 83‑18, 2006-15

Denial of Coverage, 96-18

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 85‑13

Exemption of Sight Restoration Surgery from Pre‑approval Requirement, 87‑37

Home and Community Based Services Improvement Act, 85‑10

Medicaid Waiver, scope, 85‑10

Older Americans, 2020-02

Amending the Older Americans Act with Teddie-Joy’s Law, 2023-07

Prescription labels, 2011-12, 2018-09

Reimbursement for prosthetic eyes, 2019-01

Revoke the Medicare Low Vision Device Exclusion, 2011-15

Support of Medicare Concept, 62‑15

MEDTRONIC

Access to insulin pumps, Medtronic Paradigm 712, 2006-20

MEMBERSHIP

ACB Board of Directors establish a policy for referring members at large to state and special-interest affiliates, 2023-04

ACB Board encourages affiliates to adopt a prohibited conduct policy, 2023-06

Directs ACB's Board of Directors to establish a mechanism to inform the membership regarding upcoming board decisions, collect member input, and disseminate that input to the board prior to making decisions, 2024-06

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Windows-NT, used by Social Security Administration, IRS, Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies, 98-36

Microsoft Windows 10, failure to ensure full accessibility of, 2015-05

Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19

Urges Microsoft to remove its logo from Real One Player software and other Real Networks products, until such time as these products are made accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2002-28

MINIMUM WAGE (see also AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; EMPLOYMENT; JAVITS‑WAGNER‑O’DAY ACT; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; REHAB ACT SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SUBMINIMUM WAGE; WAGE):

Subminimum Wage Approved only for multiply handicapped workshop employees, 89‑23 (addressing “ambiguity” in 86‑04 and 87‑13)

Link competitive employment with earnings at federal minimum wage, 96-12

MISCELLANEOUS:

American Blind Golfers Association, extend services to people with low vision, 94-21

Commission of Blind and Visually Impaired Consumer Citizens, resolution concurred in, 73‑08

Consultative Service Program, 81‑03

FDR as a person with a disability, 96-01, 97-02

Gramm‑Rudman‑Hollings Automatic Deficit Reduction Mechanism Opposed, 86‑01

Postage stamp commemorating Louis Braille, 93-02

Urging FCC to allow blind radio amateurs to serve as volunteer examiners, 93-04

MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS (see also ACCESS; AERBVI; AIDS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CHILDREN; DEAF‑BLIND; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; HEALTH; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SUBMINIMUM WAGE):

ACB urges NIDRR, the Access Board, and university programs to adequately fund and undertake research necessary for the development of accessibility guidelines for the removal of all barriers within and without the built environment which inhibit effective wayfinding and interfere with the full participation within the mainstream of American society of persons who are deaf-blind, persons who are blind and visually impaired and who also have developmental disabilities, and other multiply disabled blind individuals, 2010-22

Dedicated Facilities for Multiply Handicapped Blind Children, 68‑01

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of School, 2017-04

Increased Public Assistance, 64‑10

Non-vocational rehabilitation, 2019-16

Separate Facilities and Training in Orientation Centers and Workshops, 68‑03

Subminimum Wage for Employees in Sheltered Workshops, 89‑23 (addressing “ambiguity” in 86‑04 and 87‑13)

N

NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL (see also ACCREDITATION; COMMENDATIONS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PUBLIC LAWS, P.L. 94‑142; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

ACB as Consultant to Agencies, 81‑03

Cancelation of Grant by Rehabilitation Services Administration, 75‑01

Careers in Art, 87‑21

Composition of On‑Site Review Teams, 86‑27

Development of Autonomous Financial Base, 86‑15

Guide Dog Schools, 81‑01

National Accreditation Council Requested to Issue Standards, 71‑04

National Library Service Requested to Produce NAC Standards, etc. in Accessible Media, 78‑15

Self‑Study, 86‑27

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BROADCASTERS

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MANUFACTURERS

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS (NAPVI)

Thanks the National Association of Parents of the Visually Impaired (NAPVI), for holding its convention jointly with ACB, 98-42

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE BOARDS OF EDUCATION (see also BRAILLE; CHILDREN; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; MAINSTREAMING; RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS; STUDENTS):

Communication re: Mandatory Braille Instruction, 87‑01

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STATE DIRECTORS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF THEATRE OWNERS

Supports audio description, and urges film producers and theatre owners to provide audio description in all newly produced, re-released, and renovated or restored movies, 2000-07

NATIONAL BLINDNESS PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION BOARD

Appropriate braille instruction and professional preparation, 2014-04

Appropriate O&M instruction and professional preparation, 2014-03

NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS (see also ACCESS; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; COMMENDATIONS; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS):

Affordable Braille Books, 87‑20

Commended for Producing AIDS Information in Braille, 88‑23

NATIONAL CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP IN VISUAL IMPAIRMENT

Congratulating and welcome NCLVI doctoral fellows to ACB, 2006-16

NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND (see also ACCREDITATION; AERBVI; EDUCATION; REAUTHORIZATION OF REHABILITATION ACT; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Concept Supported, 90‑06

Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act

Advisory committee established, 91‑20
Independent living services for older blind individuals, 91‑29

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE AGENCIES FOR THE BLIND (see also ACCREDITATION; AERBVI; CONSUMERS ON AGENCY BOARDS AND OTHER GOVERNING BODIES; EMPLOYMENT; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

ACB establishes 13 principles it views as essential in order for state agencies for the blind to maintain positive working relationships with consumers and organizations of the blind, 99-22

Appreciation for facilitating conference for Randolph-Sheppard vendors, state directors and RSA representatives, 94-28

Calls on RSA and NCSAB to bring to the attention of the White House and the Domestic Policy Council, the unacceptable conduct of Department of Veterans Affairs personnel in failing to comply with the priority provisions of the Randolph-Sheppard Act as amended by forestalling implementation of management directive 7632, 2001-06

Careers in Art, 87‑21

Cooperation with, 90‑01, 91‑24

Task Force on Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with AIDS, 87‑31

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE HANDICAPPED (see also REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION):

Decade of the Disabled, 84‑13

Independence from the Department of Education, 83‑03

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING (See also INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES)

ACB officers, directors, and staff to take all appropriate actions to oppose the recommendations of the National Council on Independent Living with respect to the program provided for pursuant to Title VII Chapter 2 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 2002-06

Opposition to paper on job services consolidation, 95-06

Opposes NCIL position on categorical and specialized services, 96-15

NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND (see also RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS):

As “special consultant” to Rehabilitation Services Administration, 75‑01

Joint Legislative Committee, 65‑02

Participation in World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, 62‑07, 63‑05, 67‑09

Removal of “Federation” from ACB affiliate names, 74‑11

NATIONAL GOVERNORS’ ASSOCIATION

Supports proposed legislation in Congress to re-authorize the Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988, 98-34

NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND (see also COMMENDATIONS; EMPLOYMENT; JAVITS‑WAGNER‑O’DAY ACT; MINIMUM WAGE; MULTIPLY‑HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; SUBMINIMUM WAGE):

Calling on Congress to continue practice of purchasing from blind and visually handicapped, 95-07

Commendation for Support of NAC, 89‑11

Conflict with ACB Resolution 79‑06 Concerning Wages, 83‑24, 84‑08

Existence as Separate Entity Supported, 84‑08, 94-17

Fair Labor Standards, 82‑08

Opposition to NCD’s 14(c) recommendations, 2014-09
Support for repealing Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 2013-13

Javits‑Wagner‑O’Day Act

Fiftieth anniversary, 88‑18
Program improvements needed, 82‑08

Request for Production of Inexpensive Slate, 86‑28

Sequestration, Call for Communications Strategy Using National Media, 2013-10

Statutory Priority for the Blind, 84‑10

Transition to Competitive Employment, 86‑06

Upward Mobility of Production Workers, 82‑08

NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DISABILITY AND REHABILITATION RESEARCH (NIDRR)

NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH

Calls upon governmental research entities to increase their blindness treatment research budgets, 98-08

NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE (see also AIDS; BRAILLE; COMMENDATIONS; DISCRIMINATION; LIBRARY SERVICES; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS, Children):

Access to reading materials worldwide, 2008-07

Adding a textual equivalent to audio materials, 2022-09

Adding materials of interest to LGBTQ+ individuals, 2020-03

AIDS, non‑discrimination against HIV‑infected patrons, 90‑10

ACB to ask NLS to implement a process by which library patrons will be able to easily search for books by authors of specific racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds, by topic, and by genre, and will also ask NLS to report progress at ACB’s 2025 national convention, 2024-10

Making large-print books available to people with residual vision, 2023-09

Braille

Braille E-Reader Prioritization for Deaf-Blind Readers, 2021-35
Change formats for magazines, 96-16
Directs ACB to participate in ongoing discussions with representatives of the Association of American Publishers, RFB&D, NLS, and NFB, to develop a pilot project demonstrating the feasibility of a national repository of standardized electronic files to facilitate the production of accessible texts and other materials, 99-36
Disproportionate production cuts, 86‑23
specifications for braille books, 89‑19
response to braille correspondence, 92-03

Centralized Distribution of Braille Books and Playback Machines

Opposed generally, 91‑16
Opposition to funding of study, 91‑17

Censorship of Braille Magazines Opposed, 81‑04

Children’s Magazines, 87‑10

Database for NLS Patrons, 89‑14

Definition of “Blindness” for Talking Book Service Purposes, 62‑08

Ensuring that IMLS funding levels are not reduced during the 2018 federal fiscal year, 2017-17

Funding, 74‑03, 75‑09, 79‑18, 86‑20

Identification of download-only BARD books, 2014-12

Patron Input

collection development, 77‑11
forums, 89‑22

Periodicals

children's magazines, 87‑10
funding of Good Cheer Magazine, 74‑07
need for employment‑related periodical, 91‑27
Playboy, 86‑21

production of electronic braille books in greater numbers than those produced in hard copy, 2018-16

Production of NAC Materials in Accessible Media, 78‑15

Production of “Reader’s Digest” in braille, 2020-04

Quality Control

cassette books, 87‑05
cassette machines, 88‑05

Resuming production of Talking Book Topics in large print, 2022-24

Shortage of reading machine equipment, 74‑03

Strengthen ALA standards for network libraries, 94-13

Subregional libraries, concept and funding supported, 82‑02

Urges NLS to assure that the name of the specific magazine be made more visually discernible on each cassette by enlarging and emboldening the print, 2003-25

Urges NLS to convene a task force, which will explore promotional and training avenues to keep the art of transcription of musical notation into Braille alive and growing, 2001-24

“Vanity Press” Books, 91‑18

Voter Information in Accessible Media, 83‑15, 83‑21, 88‑08

NATIONAL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION

NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

Access to National Parks, 2009-13

S. 1693, urges Congress to add language which relates to concession contracts on National Park Service property, 98-20

NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION (see also AERBVI; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Task Force on Vocational Rehabilitation of Persons with AIDS, 87‑31

NATIONAL RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION

Urges the National Restaurant Association to adopt policies making it a condition of membership that all member restaurants offer complete braille and large print menus, 99-16

NATIONAL TASK FORCE ON EMPLOYMENT OF ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES

Executive Order 13078 creates the task force, charges it with doing special investigations with regard to the Randolph-Sheppard and Javits-Wagner-O’Day Acts, 98-21

NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE (see also ACCESS, Access to Information; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; EDUCATION; AINSTREAMING; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE):

Concept Supported, 90‑11

NOT ADOPTED (see also NOT ON FILE; UNFINISHED BUSINESS):

Defeated: 65‑01, 65‑03, 65‑04, 66‑01, 74‑05, 75‑10, 75‑11, 76‑13, 77‑12, 79‑03, 80‑06, 80‑16?, 80‑26?, 80‑28, 81‑02, 81‑18, 82‑17, 84‑05, 84‑09, 84‑12, 84‑20, 85‑23, 85‑32, 86‑14, 86‑16, 86‑22, 87‑02, 87‑07, 87‑11, 87‑19, 88‑07 (originally tabled as 87‑07, untabled and defeated), 89‑20?, 92-13, 92-21, 93-15, 94-03, 94-24, 95-03, 95-09; 99-11, 99-14, 99-24 (tabled, will be taken up in 2000), 99-26 ; 2007-05, 2007-07, 2007-09, 2007-14, 2007-15, 2007-16, 2007-19, 2007-20, 2007-22, 2007-23, 2007-31, 2007-32, 2008-01, 2008-06, 2008-08, 2008-09, 2009-02, 2009-03, 2009-10, 2009-12, 2009-17, 2009-18, 2020-13, 2021-03, 2022-02, 2022-05, 2022-21

Referred to:

Advocacy Committee, 99-17
Advocacy Steering Committee, 2021-14, 2021-31, 2022-03,
Board of Directors, 79‑01, 80‑21, 84‑19, 85‑26, 93-06, 99-27, three unnumbered resolutions from 2019, 2021-03 (did not pass), 2021-31
Board of Publications, 76‑07
committee on workshops, 88‑19
Computer Committee (see also 78‑12), 81‑11
Constitution and Bylaws Committee, 75‑15, 78‑25, 80‑18, 81‑19, 87‑24
Convention Committee, affiliate seating signage, 99-31
Convention coordinator, 79‑02
Guide Dog Users, Inc., 2021-14
Information Access Committee, 2021-02,
legislative committee, 75‑07, 75‑08, 76‑16
library committee, 76‑15, 78‑13, 79‑17
Resolutions Committee, 65‑12
Special Education Task Force, 2021-31
task force created by, 78‑03, 78‑04, 78‑05, 79‑21
VIDPI, 94-23

No action taken, 92-19

Ruled out of order, 94-07, 94-22

Tabled, 75‑06, 76‑23, 78‑26, 81‑07, 83‑19, 85‑08, 88‑06? (page 2 missing)

Withdrawn: 82‑09, 92-12, 95-12; 99-04, 99-05, 99-06, 99-08, 99-12, 99-41, 99-42; 2020-08, 2020-09; 2021-05, 2021-08, 2021-17, 2021-19, 2021-20, 2021-27, 2021-32; 2022-01, 2022-04, 2022-10, 2022-11, 2022-20, 2022-22, 2022-23, 2023-05, 2023-08

NOT ON FILE (see also NOT ADOPTED): 72‑04, 72‑05, 79‑12; 98-02, 98-03, 98-09, 98-11, 98-19, 98-28, 98-32, 98-35; 2000-01, 2000-08, 2000-10, 2000-14, 2000-18, 2000-20, 2000-23, 2000-26, 2000-29, 2000-31, 2000-41, 2000-44, 2000-47, 2000-48; 2001-05, 2001-08, 2001-09, 2001-22; 2002-09, 2002-10, 2002-18, 2003-02; 2003-04, 2003-20; 2004-04, 2004-07, 2004-13, 2004-27, 2004-29; 2005-05, 2005-26, 2005-29; 2006-04, 2006-05, 2006-10, 2006-11, 2006-12, 2006-14, 2006-23; 2007-05, 2007-07, 2007-09, 2007-14, 2007-15, 2007-16, 2007-19, 2007-20, 2007-22, 2007-23, 2007-31, 2007-32; 2008-01, 2008-06, 2008-08, 2008-09, 2008-15; 2009-02, 2009-03, 2009-10, 2009-12, 2009-17, 2009-18; 2010-06, 2010-09, 2010-14; 2011-02, 2011-08; 2012-04, 2012-12, 2012-15; 2013-12; 2017-16; 2018-07;

O

OFFICE OF FEDERAL PROCUREMENT POLICY

ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY (see also ACCESS, Architecture and Environment; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; DISCRIMINATION; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT, CERTIFICATION ISSUES; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; GUIDE DOGS; LOW VISION; MAINSTREAMING; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE):

ACB urges its affiliates to undertake concerted public education campaigns, including discussions with state departments of motor vehicles, law enforcement, traffic schools and traffic safety officials, to increase awareness regarding the danger to all pedestrians, particularly persons who are blind or visually impaired, when drivers fail to comply with state laws governing right turns, and of the need to enforce such laws, and to update and disseminate its pedestrian safety handbook, 2005-03

Committee on Signage, 81‑08

Creation of Major Research Center, 74‑14

Crosswalk Markings, 86‑09

Destination elevators, 2007-02

Detectable Directional Surfaces, 85‑22, 86‑08, 90‑03

Development of Standard Disadvantaged Pedestrian Sign, 77‑14

Electrically Powered Vehicles, 91‑25

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of School, 2017-04

Full funding for rehabilitation services for blind/visually impaired, 2011-20

Guide dogs as equally valid mobility option, 79‑09

Hotel Room Markings, 86‑12

Inclusion in IDEA re-authorization, 94-19

Instruction Reform, 90‑21

Lions Replica Cane, updating image, 2014-02

Location of Residential School as Affecting Training, 75‑19

Low Vision

Opposes services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, 93-12, 98-29
Opposition to the establishment and use of a unifying designation, prefix or title to refer to each of the professional disciplines serving children, working-age adults, or seniors who are blind or visually impaired, 2017-13
persons with as instructors, 86‑03, 90‑21
special training for instructors of clients with, 80‑13

Misrepresentation of service animals, 2014-01

Pedestrian safety and gathering data about pedestrian-vehicle accidents in which there is an injury or death to blind/visually impaired pedestrian, 2011-03

Right Turn on Red Opposed, 77‑06

Separate Facilities and Training in Orientation Centers and Workshops for Multiply Handicapped Blind Persons, 68‑03

Tactile Edging Surfaces, 89‑12

Tactile Surface Warning Indicators, 89‑13

Third party reimbursement for orientation and mobility instructors, 97-37

Universal accessibility of household appliances, both large and small, 2007-18

Use of proper job titles in all communications about the nationally certified professionals in the field of vision habilitation and rehabilitation, 2019-05

P

PARATRANSIT

Advocating for the establishment of a state legislative task force on paratransit services, 2018-13

Door-to-door paratransit, 2017-08

PARTICULAR POPULATIONS (see also ADULT BLIND; BLIND TEACHERS; CHILDREN; DEAF‑BLIND; FEDERAL EMPLOYEES; HIV‑INFECTED PERSONS; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; LOW VISION; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; STUDENTS; WOMEN):

Adults, training, 68‑03

Anne Sullivan Macy Act, 2012-06

Children

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04
Children’s magazines from NLS, 87‑10
Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04
Handicapped Education, 77‑18
S. 2294, 86‑13
low vision aids, 78‑10, 79‑20
low vision testing, 79‑20
mainstreaming, 71‑04
multiply handicapped, 68‑01
services for birth‑to‑five group, 86‑13

Deaf‑Blind (see DEAF‑BLIND)

Elderly

Access to documents in accessible formats for federal retirees, 2012-11
ACB seeks enactment of legislation which would make the Americans with Disabilities Act and Title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 applicable to the federal courts, 2002-01
ACB urges RSA to adopt federal regulations implementing the older blind program that would require state agencies to only contract with service provider organizations staffed by professionals possessing expertise in blindness and visual impairment as identified in such regulations, 2015-16
ACB urges NIDRR, the Access Board, and university programs to adequately fund and undertake research necessary for the development of accessibility guidelines for the removal of all barriers within and without the built environment which inhibit effective wayfinding and interfere with the full participation within the mainstream of American society of persons who are deaf-blind, persons who are blind and visually impaired and who also have developmental disabilities, and other multiply disabled blind individuals, 2010-22
Affiliates to assist with leisure activities, 75‑16
Blindness organizations to come together to develop and implement a comprehensive action plan to increase federal funding for the older blind program, 2013-19
Grants for Independent Living, 2017-14
Home and Community Based Services Improvement Act, 85‑10
Increase in funding for older blind programs, 2017-12, 2023-10
Independent living services, 84‑24, 85‑10, 87‑34, 91‑20
Instructs ACB officers, directors and staff to advocate for an increase in federal funding for the Title VII, Chapter 2 program, with the increased federal funding to be allocated based on the population of each state 55 years and over and indexed according to the cost of living, 2004-14
IRS forms, legibility, 85‑14
Labeling of medicines and dangerous substances, 82‑15
Older Americans Act, 84‑24, 2020-02, 2023-07
Reauthorization of Rehabilitation Act, independent living services, 91‑20, 97-14
Revoke the Medicare Low Vision Device Exclusion, 2011-15
Services to elderly blind, 90‑17, 97-14

Federal Employees (see FEDERAL EMPLOYEES)

Students

Schools for the blind, ACB supports and will provide assistance to affiliates in states where closing of the residential school may be imminent, 98-10
Student resources study committee, 90‑18

Veterans

Employment as chief of centers and clinics, 87‑22

Women

In under‑developed countries, 76‑09

PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

ACB to update the Pedestrian Safety Handbook, 2007-10

ADAAG, ANSI and accessible paths through parking lots, 2013-15

Audible countdown features, research concerning best practices, 2016-17

Audible pedestrian signals, 98-13, 99-02, 99-25, 2010-01

Pedestrian safety and gathering data about pedestrian-vehicle accidents in which there is an injury or death to blind/visually impaired pedestrian, 2011-03
Supports the research, development, evaluation, and utilization of devices or systems that enhance the way-finding capabilities of people who are blind or visually impaired, thereby creating a safer and more accessible pedestrian environment, 2002-20
Urges state and local jurisdictions to include requirements in their traffic manuals regarding audible pedestrian signals, and specific requirements for the signals, 2002-24

Urges the Public Rights of Way Access Advisory Committee and the Access Board to adopt accessibility guidelines that require there be two curb ramps on each corner at which curb ramps are installed, and that all curb ramps and curb cuts on opposite corners of pedestrian islands be in alignment and within the intended path of travel, 2000-12

Quiet Cars

ACB to advocate for federal requirements that would withhold federal highway funds from any state that fails to adopt legislation requiring a firm deadline, after which date any motorist operating a motorized vehicle failing to have significant, measurable sound emission, which is emitted both during moving and idling phases, shall be subject to a fine, in the same manner that a motorist may be fined for driving without headlights after sundown, 2007-11
ACB urges Congress and the President of the United States to promptly enact H.R. 734 and S. 841, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, 2009-01
ACB urges Congress and the President of the United States to promptly enact H.R. 5734, the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act of 2008, 2008-13
Hybrid vehicles, retrofitting them to comply with the standards that will be adopted by the United States Department of Transportation pursuant to the Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act, 2012-09

POINT-OF-SALE DEVICES

POSTAL MATTERS (see also BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; FREE MATTER FOR THE BLIND):

Blindness Stamp, 67‑01

Louis Braille stamp, 2003-19

Cluster mail delivery and problems for free matter mailings such as braille and recorded magazines, 2014-14

Delivery, 2021-29

First‑Class Three Ounce Limit Rate for Braille and Recorded Material, 71‑03

Free Matter (see FREE MATTER FOR THE BLIND)

Items sent via Free Matter returned to sender (without being delivered), 2008-17
Reduced Rate
for non‑profit organizations, 69‑05
where address handwritten, 77‑01
Urges the United States Postmaster General to release a proclamation commemorating the passage of the “free matter for the blind” statutes, 2004-05

PRESIDENT’S DOMESTIC POLICY COUNCIL

Urges RSA commissioner to stand firm against assaults on the Randolph-Sheppard program, 98-05

PROCTER AND GAMBLE

Reaffirms ACB's support for braille and rejects the idea that shapes or other tactile markings constitute an appropriate replacement for braille when marking products or surfaces, 2024-01

PUBLIC LAWS (see also EDUCATION):

P.L. 94‑142 (the Education of All Handicapped Children Act)

Attorney’s fees, 85‑01
Employment provisions, monitoring by state affiliates, 78‑21
Federal equivalency diploma exam in Spanish, 80‑15
Importance of low vision aids, 78‑10, 79‑20
Not “kind” to low incidence disability groups, 90‑06
Simultaneous support for P.L. 89‑313 and P.L., 94‑142 91‑13
Special education services, 82‑12
Support and points of special emphasis, 77‑18, 82‑12

P.L. 95‑602 (Rehabilitation Comprehensive Services and Developmental Disabilities Act Amendments of 1978), 80‑02

P.L. 97‑424 (Kennelly Highway Vending Program), 90‑01

PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY ACCESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE:

Q

QR CODES AND BAR CODES

Directs ACB to call upon GS1, and any other international standard-setting bodies, to incorporate accessibility compliance requirements into any future QR and barcode standards, 2024-15

QVC

QVC product information, including prices and item numbers, 2010-15

R

RADIO READING SERVICES (see also ACCESS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

Assure that radio reading services be provided with allocated band width in the new standard defining and regulating digital radio broadcasting, 97-27

Availability of C‑SPAN, 83‑17

Concept Endorsed, study committee, 72‑01

Expansion of Services, 81‑21, 83‑16

Protection of Frequencies, 82‑13, 95-05

Sirius XM Radio, 2012-05

Supports the International Association of Audio Information Services in its call for substantial improvement in audio fidelity over that of existing analog sub-carrier transmissions, 2004-21

Threatened by H.R. 3015 of 1978, 78‑18

RANDOLPH‑SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM (see also EMPLOYMENT; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; KENNELLY HIGHWAY VENDING PROGRAM; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION):

ACB adopted 13 principles for rehabilitation which it urges the Rehabilitation Services Administration, and the state agencies that receive federal funding from the RSA, to adopt, 2001-07

ACB endorses the creation and development of the Humphreys Randolph-Sheppard Employment Institute, 2014-08

ACB joins RSVA in calling upon the Rehabilitation Services Administration to issue the much anticipated policy directive on “active participation” without further delay and to ensure that all state licensing agencies and elected committees of blind vendors promptly incorporate the clarified definition of “active participation” into their policies, rules, and procedures,

2002-17

ACB supports the definition of active participation proposed

by the RandolphSheppard Vendors of America to the

National Council of State Agencies for the Blind and

the Rehabilitation Services Administration, 2001-26

ACB supports and endorses the expressed intent of

Congress in the Randolph-Sheppard Act, and the

implementing expression in regulations of the

Department of Education and in the preamble to such

regulations, 2004-26
ACB urges Congress to strengthen and revitalize the

Randolph-Sheppard program, 2007-30

ACB urges Congress and the President to enact legislation implementing the rulings of District Court Judge James Robertson in American Council of the Blind v. Secretary of The United States Treasury, 2007-29

ACB vigorously opposes any attempt to repeal or otherwise adversely affect the priority for licensed blind vendors contained in Section 111(2) of the Surface Transportation Act (the Kennelly Amendment), 2003-23

Access by guide dog users, 94-02

Administrative Positions in Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired, 90‑02

Administrative authority, 97-18

Annual Survey of Locations, 81‑15, 90‑02

Arbitration Provisions, 81‑16

Audit of Federal Property Revenue, 81‑17

Calls on RSA to amend its Randolph-Sheppard Act implementing regulations in order to set forth the limited grounds under which state licensing agencies are permitted to waive the priority for locations on federal property, 99-09

Commercialization of Highway Rest Areas, AASHTO recommendations opposed, 90‑01

Complete Program Review, 81‑14

Congratulating parties to Honolulu Airport agreement, 93-07

Congressional Oversight Hearings Requested, 84‑01

Department of Defense position, Committee for Purchase, 97-18

Department of Veterans Affairs, use of Private contractors, 91‑24

Directs ACB to join with RSVA in arranging a meeting between Commissioner Fred Schroeder and others to raise the issue of the politicization of RSA, 99-40

Employee Welfare Committees Opposed, Theisen Case, 67‑11

Exclusion From Post Office and Certain Other Federal Property, 66‑02, 66‑05, 69‑03

Extension of program to state facilities, 93-18

Fiftieth Anniversary of Program, 86‑32

Funding

FY 1991 appropriation supported, 90‑02

HELP Committee Report and RSVA, 2006-22

inclusion in appropriations measures, 81‑15

Notes that RSA distributed a letter requiring impartiality in implementation of training require under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, to all RSA Regional Directors, State Licensing Agency Directors, and grantee universities, 2001-25

Opposes provisions weakening the Randolph-Sheppard priority contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2004, 2003-13

Opposition to “sole state agency,” 92-18

Opposition to consolidation of job training funds, 94-25

Opposition to agreements jeopardizing the Randolph-Sheppard Act, 96-24, 97-19

Opposition to imposing healthy snack sales requirements that would have a disproportionate negative impact on the livelihood of blind vendors, 2013-16

Particular Legislation

S. 394 of 1962, 62‑04

H.R. 1750 of 1969, 69‑03

S. 1529, support for the Hate Crimes Prevention Act, urges Congress to include language in the act to address the rising rate of hate crimes against blind people and guide dog teams, 98-30

S. 1693, urges Congress to add language which relates to concession contracts on National Park Service property, 98-20

S. 2461 of 1969, 69‑02

S. 2581 of 1974, 74‑10

1974 amendments,

funding implementation of, 75‑03, 80‑09
prompt issuance of regulations, 76‑04
opposition to competency test, 93-20
reaffirms support of, 93-19
reaffirms the historic significance of the Randolph-Sheppard Act on its 75^th anniversary, 2011-13
requiring ACB to enforce through litigation, 76‑20

Preventing states’ withdrawal from program, 86‑10

Priority in danger, 2017-09

Protection of Randolph‑Sheppard Rights in Public Buildings Built with Public Funds, 76‑18, 96-24, 97-08

Randolph-Sheppard priority is superior to the general preference under the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act, 98-04

Representation by Agent or Attorney of Choice, 66‑04

Set‑Aside Funds Supported, 75‑04

Supports, approves, and ratifies the “Randolph-Sheppard Program: Call for Action” document recently created by ACB, RSVA, and others, 99-13

Technical assistance training for RSA staff, 2006-24

Thanks to ACB for Assistance to Illinois Vendor, 70‑02

Thanks to Congress for retaining the Randolph-Sheppard priority, 2012-13

Urges RSA commissioner to develop and issue unambiguous instructions which quantify how Randolph-Sheppard programs can successfully bid for DOD contracts, 98-06

Urges RSA commissioner to stand firm against assaults on the Randolph-Sheppard program, 98-05

Urges RSA to promulgate an NPRM which strongly encourages state vocational rehabilitation agencies to provide assistive technology to blind clients who are job-seeking, 2000-13

Viability of Randolph-Sheppard Program, urge RSA to retain current facilities, open new ones, and train new vendors, 2015-14

READING RIGHTS COALITION

Access to reading materials worldwide, 2008-07

Kindle 2 reading device, both large print and text-to-speech audio are built in, and ACB’s membership in the coalition, 2009-16

REAUTHORIZATION OF REHABILITATION ACT (see also AERBVI; EMPLOYMENT; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Advisory Committee Established, 91‑20

Directs officers and staff to continue to vigorously pursue increased appropriations for services to the older blind, 2002-11

Increase in funding for older blind programs, 2017-12, 2023-10

Independent Living Services for Older Blind Individuals, 91‑29, 97-14

Link ‘competitive’ with earning of federal minimum wage, 96-12

Support for specialized services, 96-13, 96-15, 97-13, 96-22

Rebecca Meyers, 2021-25

RECORDING FOR THE BLIND AND DYSLEXIC – now LEARNING ALLY (see also ACCESS; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; EDUCATION; LIBRARY SERVICES; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE):

ACB condemns RFB&D’s practice of requiring installation of an authorization key at RFB&D headquarters in order to access its reading materials, 2005-04

Expresses indignation at the failure of RFB&D to attend the 1998 convention of ACB, and calls for assurances that unequal treatment will not continue in the future, 98-40

Support for increased funding from Department of Education, 88‑20, 94-29

REHABILITATION ENGINEERING AND ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (RESNA)

REHABILITATION ISSUES TASK FORCE

Commends the task force on rehabilitation issues for its white paper on rehabilitation and training, and ratifies the action of the board, adopting the white paper on rehabilitation training as the statement of the official position of ACB, 2007-25

REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (see also AERBVI; INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTERS AND SERVICES; NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION; RANDOLPH‑SHEPPARD VENDING PROGRAM; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION):

Access Issues, comments of Commissioner, 91‑26

ACB encourages members to seek seats on federally mandated state rehabilitation councils, as well as other blindness-specific rehabilitation services advisory boards and appointed boards/commissions for the blind, 2007-26

ACB supports the Medicare Vision Rehabilitation Services Act of 2001, 2001-17

ACB urges RSA to adopt federal regulations implementing the Independent Living Services to Older Individuals who are Blind (OIB) program that would require state agencies to only contract with service provider organizations staffed by professionals possessing expertise in blindness and visual impairment as identified in such regulations, 2015-16

ACB urges the RSA and the OMB to eliminate the prohibition against a state using federal and matching funds for the purchase of equipment valued at less than $1,000, 2023-11

Annual Survey of Vending Facility Locations, 90‑02

Applying the entertainment expense restriction in the same manner to both the Blast and Sagebrush conferences, 2019-10

Appointment to State Rehabilitation Councils, 2021-36

Bureau for the Blind and Visually Handicapped

Directs ACB’s officers and staff to continue pursuing increased appropriations for services to the older blind, 2000-32

Division status, 80‑09

Full funding for rehabilitation services for blind/visually impaired, 2011-20

Funding, 80‑09

involvement with Randolph‑Sheppard program, 81‑15

Staffing, 80‑09

Call for Congressional Oversight Hearings, 75‑01

Calls upon OSERS to strengthen definition of ‘all students,’ 96-23

Categorical Funding for Long Term Rehabilitation Training Programs, 89‑15

Comments of Commissioner, 91‑26

Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Director’s non‑attendance at RSVA national convention, 84‑14

Expresses disdain for rule changes proposed by the Rehabilitation Services Administration concerning placement credit for disabled workers in non-integrated, non-competitive settings, 2000-16

HELP Committee Report and RSVA, 2006-22

Hiring Director, 83‑06

reorganization, 83‑05

Increase in funding for older blind programs, 2017-12, 2023-10

Independent Living Centers,

Compliance indicators as affecting those serving primarily the blind, 89‑21
Discrimination against blind and visually impaired in the provision of services, 88‑11
Inclusion of specialized services for blind people, 93-13, 96-13, 96-22

Notes that RSA distributed a letter requiring impartiality in implementation of training required under the Randolph-Sheppard Act, to all RSA Regional Directors, State Licensing Agency Directors, and grantee universities, 2001-25

Opposition to RSA’s existing policy in an effort to expand the definition of competitive integrated employment to encompass the placement of consumers in NIB-sponsored facilities, 2019-13

Relationship to Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board, 91‑26

Relocation of, 78‑17, 87‑23

Services to Students, 86‑33, 96-23

Sets forth principles which ACB believes should govern the operation of all private facilities serving persons who are blind, 2000-24

Specialized services and consumer choice, 94-18

State Plans, 2021-04

Stipends for Training Programs, 84‑16

Strongly urges the Rehabilitation Services Administration to compel all state agencies serving blind and low vision clients to serve clients who elect not to use blindfolds during training without reprisal for their exercise of free choice, and provides that the provisions of this resolution apply as well to all private agencies who are under contract with state agencies to provide services, 2002-25

Supported Employment, 87‑33, 93-09

Technical assistance training for RSA staff, 2006-24

Training and adjustment services for older blind, 92-07

Transitional services, 96-23

Universal accessibility of household appliances, both large and small, 2007-18

Urges members of Congress participating in conference committee negotiations to accept the Senate’s proposed amendments, 98-16

Urges RSA commissioner to develop and issue unambiguous instructions which quantify how Randolph-Sheppard programs can successfully bid for DOD contracts, 98-06

RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS (see also AERBVI; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL RIGHTS; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND):

AERBVI, 84‑21

Cooperation with other organizations authorized

Affiliated Leadership League of and for the Blind, 82‑11, 90‑01, 91‑24

American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities,

convention site selection, 78‑08

voter registration, 83‑21

American Diabetes Association, 84‑17

American Foundation for the Blind and National Accreditation Council to Develop Autonomous Financial Base for NAC, 86‑15

American Foundation for the of the Blind, JLTLI, 97-12

American Foundation for the Blind’s Twenty-First Century Agenda on Aging and Vision Loss, 2017-12

American Printing House for the Blind funding, 88‑04

Assistance Dogs International, 91‑22

Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired, 84‑16, 96-22

Association of Radio Reading Services, 82‑13

Committee for National Health Insurance, 73‑02

Freedom Scientific, congratulates the organization on its formation, commends their initial involvement with the blind community, calls upon them to formalize specific procedures which will insure meaningful input from a broad spectrum of blind consumers and organizations representing them, 2000-25

Health Security Action Council, 73‑02

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, 75‑20, 91‑06

National Council on Independent Living, opposition to position paper on job training consolidation, 95-06

National Center for Law and the Handicapped, 74‑15

National Council of State Agencies for the Blind, 90‑01, 91‑24

National Lobbying Network, 82‑11

Save Our Security, 85‑18

Transit Now, 91‑05

White House Conference on Disabled Persons, 84‑13

White House conference on library and information services, 77‑04, 78‑14, 88‑10, 90‑20

World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, braille recycling program, 80‑01

Lions Clubs International

Request to reinstate focus on blind people, 92-22
Support for Lions Club Century of Service Commemorative Coin Act, 2012-10

National Federation of the Blind

As "special consultant" to Rehabilitation Services Administration, 75‑01
Joint legislative committee, 65‑02
Participation in World Council for the Welfare of the Blind, 62‑07, 63‑05, 67‑09
Removal of “Federation” from ACB affiliate names, 74‑11

National Industries for the Blind

conflict with ACB Resolution 79‑06 concerning wages, 83‑24, 84‑08

National organizations of the blind (see also NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND)

Joint legislative committee, 65‑02

Other disability groups, 65‑09

World Council for the Welfare of the Blind (now World Blind Union)

Greetings, 62‑07
Negotiations for seat in U.S. delegation, 62‑07, 63‑05, 67‑09

RESEARCH (see also EYE RESEARCH):

Blindness and Mobility, research center, 74‑14

Eye Research,

general support, 62‑01

National Eye Institute, low vision applications, 81‑06

Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation, publicize and assist, 72‑03

Vision enhancement technology, 93-24

RESIDENTIAL SCHOOLS (see also AERBVI; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; BLIND TEACHERS; BRAILLE; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; LOW VISION; MAINSTREAMING; MULTIPLY‑HANDICAPPED PERSONS; NATIONAL COMMISSION ON EDUCATION AND REHABILITATION OF THE BLIND; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; NORTH AMERICAN CENTRAL LISTING SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; RECORDING FOR THE BLIND; STUDENTS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE):

Braille Issues

Appropriateness of braille instruction for low vision students, 87‑01
Inadequate braille instruction, 67‑03, 87‑01
Mandatory braille instruction, 87‑01
Slate and stylus, 67‑03

California School for the Blind, seismic safety, 81‑12

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Co‑existence of Public and Residential Schools, 68‑02, 73‑06, 75‑14, 75‑19, 91‑11

Concept of, 68‑02

Coordination of Curricula Between Public and Residential Schools, 75‑14

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04

Location, 75‑19

Outlines changes which ACB will include in its legislative strategy to incorporate into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act during its reauthorization, 2001-19

Promoting continuation of residential schools, 96-21, 96-22

Separate Facilities

Merger with schools for the deaf, etc., 86‑02
Multiply handicapped students, 68‑01, 86‑02

Separate Funding, 80‑11, 91‑11

S

SECTION 501 (see also CIVIL RIGHTS; SECTION 503; SECTION 504; SECTION 508)

Inadequate Scope of Protection, 85‑12

Need for Judicial Remedies, 77‑17

SECTION 503 (see also CIVIL RIGHTS; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; SECTION 504):

Enforcement assistance by ACB, 76‑21

Favoring private cause of action, 83‑01, 89‑02

Inadequate scope of protection, 85‑12

Need for Judicial Remedies, 77‑17, 83‑01

New affirmative action regulations under, 2014-11

Relation to Section 504, 77‑17, 83‑01

SECTION 504 (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; CIVIL RIGHTS; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; SECTION 503; SECTION 508; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

Access

To public laws and regulations, 89‑16
To public and private transportation, 79‑05
To Social Security and Supplemental Security Income notices and information, 88‑09

Applicability, 83‑01, 87‑30

Employment in Armed Forces, 80‑14

Making a career as a reservist possible for those who are blind or low vision and have proven their competence, 2012-08

Enforcement Assistance by ACB, 76‑21

Exemptions Opposed

Congress, 87‑30

public transportation, 80‑08

Federal Equivalency Diploma Exam in Spanish, 80‑15

Implementation, cause of delay, 80‑25

Inadequate Scope of Protection, 85‑12

Need for Judicial Remedies, 77‑17

Reasonable Accommodations, effect of line item budgets, 87‑32

Regulations

Department of Justice “prototype” compared to 1978 guidelines, 83‑04
“Special transportation,” 87‑09

Relation to

CETA, 80‑27

Section 503, 77‑17, 83‑01

Revisions of 1978 Interagency Guidelines, 82‑04

Scope (Grove City decision), 85‑07, 87‑18

Waiver of States’ Eleventh Amendment Protection, (Atascadero Hospital decision), 85‑19

SECTION 508 (see also COMPUTERS):

Calls upon Congress to promptly enact legislation to extend coverage of Section 508 to the legislative branch of the United States government, 2002-13

Directs ACB officers, directors, and staff to communicate to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs the necessity for the department to comply with the accessibility requirements of Section 508, 2005-19

Federal Procurement Standards as Encouragement of Accessibility, 90‑07

Methods for encouraging compliance with, 2012-03

Responsibilities of the Department of Justice under Section 508, 2014-10

Strengthening of 508 through legislation, 97-32

Urges members of Congress participating in conference committee negotiations to accept the Senate’s proposed amendments, 98-16

SHELTERED WORKSHOPS (see also AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; EMPLOYMENT; JAVITS‑WAGNER‑O'DAY ACT; MINIMUM WAGE; NATIONAL INDUSTRIES FOR THE BLIND; SUBMINIMUM WAGE):

Applicability of National Labor Relations Act, 67‑07, 81‑10

Calling on Congress to continue practice of purchasing from blind and visually handicapped, 95-07

Collective Bargaining, 81‑10

Comparison of Those Employing the Blind and Employing the Severely Handicapped, 84‑08, 84‑10

Department of Labor actions, 86‑05

Employee or Client Status, 81‑10

Exemption from Mandatory Unemployment Compensation Coverage Opposed, 65‑07

Fair Labor Standards, 82‑08

Support for repealing Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act, 2013-13

H.R. 3091, 83‑12

Javits‑Wagner‑O’Day Act

Expansion to cover other handicaps opposed, 68‑04
Fiftieth anniversary, 88‑18
Program improvements needed, 82‑08

Opposes loss of choice, 94-26

Oversight by Department of Labor, 86‑05

Proper Objectives and Use, 64‑04

Protecting Employees’ Rights, 68‑04, 81‑10, 82‑08, 83‑12

Responsibilities of management, 86‑06

National Industries for the Blind, 86‑06

Separate Facilities and Training in Orientation Centers and Workshops for Multiply Handicapped Persons, 68‑03

Sequestration, Call for Communications Strategy Using National Media, 2013-10

Study Committee, 62‑12

Subminimum Wage, 65‑09

Amount, 79‑06, 83‑24
Approved only for multiply handicapped employees, 86‑05, 89‑23 (addressing “ambiguity” in 86‑04 and 87‑13; see also 83‑24)
Limitation of certificates to individual workers, 79‑06, 83‑12, 83‑24
Transition to Competitive Employment, 86‑06
Upward Job Mobility, 82‑08
Wage Issues (see also SUBMINIMUM WAGE), 82‑09, 86‑05

SKYDIVING

SOCIAL MEDIA

Facebook, requests the company take prompt steps to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 developed by the World Wide Web Consortium in order to make its website accessible, 2010-21

SOCIAL SECURITY (see also ACCESS; COMPUTERS; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TECHNOLOGY; TAX MATTERS; TITLE XX): 89‑10

ACB supports H.R. 1601 and S. 285, which restores the Social Security linkage for people who are blind, 99-33

ACB supports a $2 for $1 gradual reduction in Social Security benefits when a beneficiary who is blind or visually impaired enters or returns to the workforce, 2015-17

Access to Social Security’s, and other federal agencies’, in-person information and benefits kiosks or computerized systems, 2016-07

Administration’s Compliance with Legal Precedents, 85‑05, 97-17

Benefits

Cost of living adjustment
Opposition to proposed use of chained Consumer Price Index to calculate adjustments to Social Security benefits, 2013-08
Semi‑annual adjustment sought, 77‑10
Tied to Consumer Price Index, 67‑06

Computers using Microsoft Windows-NT, used by Social Security Administration, IRS, Department of Defense, and other federal government agencies, 98-36

Dropout years formula, 79‑01

Exempt earnings

Equalizing "up," not "down," 88‑03

Extending provision to cover the disabled, 62‑10

maintaining linkage between earnings levels between seniors and blind people, 95-08, 96-11, 97-24

Favoring increase, 89‑10

Family maximum limitation, 79‑01

Blindness and Visual Impairment as Separate Category, 62‑09, 80‑11, 84‑11

Definition of Disability, 62‑02

Elimination of the earnings limit for people on SSDI, 2006-02

Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 85‑13

Federal Program of Aid to the Blind, 69‑06

Notices and Other Information in Accessible Media, 88‑09

Office Closures, 85‑18

Ratifies the recommendation of the American Council of the Blind board of directors that this organization join as a plaintiff in a lawsuit to be filed against the Social Security Administration concerning the failure of that agency to provide correspondence to people who are blind or visually impaired in accessible formats, 2005-20

Recognizes the importance of Social Security programs to B/VI citizens, instructs national office to monitor and report to the membership all legislation concerning privatization of, 98-12

Reform, ACB position on Social Security reform, 96-29

Relationship to Federal Budget, 82‑03

Requesting additional staffing, training and improvements in claims processing, 94-01

Self‑support Plans, removing time limits, 62‑16, 63‑02

Substantial Gainful Activity, 84‑11, 91‑30, 92-09

Urges Congress to enact a gradual reduction of SSDI benefits, such as an exchange of $1 of benefits for every $3 in earnings when earnings exceed limits determined by the Social Security Act, 2000-49

Urges Congress to reject any SSI reform purporting to reduce fraud that negatively impacts B/VI recipients, 98-14

Urges Sens. Jeffords and Kennedy to include changes to their Social Security reform proposal, including an update to the definition of personal assistance services and substantial financial incentives to rehabilitation providers to offer assistive technology devices and services to their clients, 98-41

SPECIAL EDUCATION TASK FORCE

Appropriate braille instruction and professional preparation, 2014-04

Appropriate O&M instruction and professional preparation, 2014-03

STUDENTS (see also AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN PRINTING HOUSE FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BRAILLE; CHILDREN; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; EDUCATION OF ALL HANDICAPPED CHILDREN ACT; EDUCATION TESTING SERVICE; LEAST RESTRICTIVE ENVIRONMENT; LIBRARY SERVICES; MAINSTREAMING; NATIONAL LIBRARY SERVICE; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; UNFINISHED BUSINESS):

Accessibility of Common College Application, 2018-05

Affiliate Formation Committee, 70‑04

Anne Sullivan Macy Act, 2012-06

Appropriate braille instruction and professional preparation, 2014-04

Appropriate O&M instruction and professional preparation, 2014-03

Availability of Rehabilitation Services, 86‑33

Children with cortical visual impairment, 2018-04

Cogswell-Macy Act, 2018-04

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of School, 2017-04

Job Partnership Training Act, 86‑33

Outlines changes which ACB will include in its legislative strategy to incorporate into the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act during its reauthorization, 2001-19

Reforming Orientation and Mobility Instruction, 90‑21

Student Loans, request for IRS waiver, 2017-19

Student Resources Study Committee, 90‑18

Supplemental Study Materials in Accessible Media, 87‑04

Transition Team Training, 86‑34

SUBMINIMUM WAGE (see ALSO AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; EMPLOYMENT; MINIMUM WAGE; MULTIPLY HANDICAPPED PERSONS; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS):

Amount, 79‑06, 83‑24

Approved Only for Multiply Handicapped Workshop Employees (addressing "ambiguity" in 86‑04 and 87‑13), 89-23; see also 86-05 and 83‑24

Limitation of Certificates to Individual Workers, 79‑06, 83‑24

SUBWAY SAFETY (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; DEAF‑BLIND; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; GUIDE DOGS; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; WHITE CANE):

Suggested Safety Measures, 84‑06

Detectable warning standards, 2011-06

SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME (see also ACCESS; BRAILLE; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE; LEGAL MATTERS, Constitutional Rights; SECTION 504; SOCIAL SECURITY; TITLE XX):

Benefits

Cost of living adjustment, 80‑03
Discrimination against citizens of Puerto Rico and certain U.S. territories and possessions, 80‑19
Discrimination against married couples, 74‑09
Eligibility Requirements, 84‑03
Employment Opportunities for Disabled Americans Act, 85‑13
Notices and Other Information in Accessible Media, 82‑05, 88‑09
Savings Account Interest as Income, 86‑17
Waiver of Tax Records Confidentiality, 82‑05

SUPREME COURT

Directs ACB’s officers, directors and staff to examine the public statements, writings, and judicial decisions, if any, of the presidential nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in order to determine whether the nominee has taken positions in opposition to federal and state civil rights laws that guarantee the civil rights of individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or have other disabilities, provides that should this examination indicate the nominee holds views in opposition to these civil rights laws, this organization direct its officers, directors, and staff to take appropriate action, including the provision of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the full United States Senate, vehemently opposing such nominee, and directs that the practices set forth in this resolution be followed with respect to future nominees to the United States Supreme Court, 2005-18

T

TAX MATTERS (see also DISCRIMINATION; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE; EMPLOYMENT; INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE):

Credit or Concession to Private Industry, 65‑06, 81‑22, 83‑07, 91‑13

Disability‑Related Tax Credit Information, 91‑13

Disability Tax Deduction or Exemption, 69‑11

Earned Income Tax Credit for Persons with Disabilities, 90‑16

Home Recording Act, 86‑19

Legibility of IRS forms by Low Vision and Elderly Taxpayers, 85‑14

Non‑discrimination as Condition of Tax-Exempt Status and Purchase by Federal Government, 65‑10

Restoration of Exemption for Blindness, 87‑12

Student Loans, request for IRS waiver for students with disabilities, 2017-19

Targeted Jobs Tax Credits, scope, 83‑07

Tax Cut Policy, 80‑12

TECHNOLOGY (see also ACCESS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; BRAILLE; COMPUTERS; EMPLOYMENT; LOW VISION; VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEVISION):

ACB to seek information from ACB members regarding complaints with respect to quality of service, repair and replacement products, and technical support issues, 2006-01

ACB urges Freedom Scientific to provide complete JAWS cassette tutorials until such time as NLS completes its conversion to DAISY format, 2006-08

Access in general, 83‑11, 89‑18

Access to Apple’s iOS applications, 2011-19

Access to the indoor and outdoor environment, self-driving cars, etc., 2017-22

Accessible software and assistive technology for government employees, 2006-13

Accessibility of Common College Application, 2018-05

Amazon, for its success with iOS devices, and requests for its applications to be accessible on the Kindle as well, 2013-06

Assistive technology, government assistance in payment of for employment, 93-05

Assistive technology low-interest loan programs, 2016-12

Bar code readers, 2019-02

Committee on Technology and Visual Impairment, 78‑12

Computer‑Related Materials in Accessible Media, 83‑13

Development of a single, nationwide preferred file format standard, 2000-36

Development of standards for assistive technology specialists, 92-20

Documentation of Assistive Technology Products in Accessible Media, 91‑09

Electrically Alterable Graphic Braille Display, 79‑19

Encourages other manufacturers of assistive technology to increase research and development of competitively priced alternatives to all Blazie products including refreshable braille displays, and refers the matter of Blazie’s refusal to attend ACB conventions to the board for further action, 98-39

Enhancing Access

Methods for encouraging compliance with Section 508, 2012-03
Microsoft Windows 10, failure to ensure full accessibility of, 2015-05
Microsoft to make accessibility built into the product itself for people who are blind or visually impaired a guiding design principle of their operation, 2010-19
Task force on access to information via computer, 79‑11
to fax reader services, 94-08
to NLS database, 89‑14
to Social Security and Supplemental Security Income notices and information, 88‑09
Windows, Active Accessibility, 96-20, 97-05

Expanded Core Curriculum outside of school, 2017-04

Facebook

To ask Facebook to refine its automated picture description mechanism to create descriptions which contain specific details of pictorial elements, and to develop a mechanism to prompt Facebook members who post pictures and other visual media to attach accompanying descriptions, 2016-19
Facebook, requests the company take prompt steps to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 developed by the World Wide Web Consortium in order to make its website accessible, 2010-21

Financial Assistance Toward Purchase

American Foundation for the Blind loan program, disapproval of focus, 88‑17

Manufacturers' role, 79‑16

Office of Technology report, 83‑11

Public fund, 77‑05

Home Recording Act, 86‑19

Manufacturers' Obligations, 85‑09

QVC product information, including prices and item numbers, 2010-15

Rehabilitation Act of 1986, Computer Amendments, 87‑29

State and local governments purchase accessible software and hardware, 97-03

support for the TEACH Act, 2013-03

Touch‑Sensitive Controls, 80‑05, 84‑25

Universal accessibility of household appliances, both large and small, 2007-18

Urges Department of Justice to apply Title III of the ADA to website proprietors who deny access to their websites via inaccessible CAPTCHAs, 2007-21

Urges manufacturers of hardware and software designed specifically to be used by people who are blind to make a commitment to provide training materials in hard copy braille upon request, 2010-18

Urges web site developers who require CAPTCHAs on their sites to utilize at least one word-based CAPTCHA alternative, 2013-07

Vision enhancement technology (see RESEARCH)

TECHNOLOGY-RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (see also ACCESS; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; COMPUTERS; EDUCATION; TECHNOLOGY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEVISION):

Appropriate Focus of Grantees' Efforts, 89‑18

Assistive technology low-interest loan programs, 2016-12

General support for, 88‑21

Supports proposed legislation in Congress to re-authorize the Technology Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988, 98-34

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; RADIO READING SERVICES; TECHNOLOGY; TELEVISION):

21^st Century Telecommunications Act, H.R. 3101, 2010-03 (later the 21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act), 2010-03

21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2008, H.R. 6320, 2008-12

ACB committed to the enactment of comprehensive federal telecommunications and video programming legislation meeting the needs of people with disabilities, especially the unique needs of people who are blind or visually impaired, 2009-09

ACB’s extreme displeasure at Apple’s increasing pattern of exclusion of potential customers who are blind and visually impaired from their marketplace, 2007-27

Access to NLS Database, 89‑14

Access to print materials from Comcast (such as bills, etc.), 2007-28

Calls upon the FCC to vote to adopt a final rule implementing Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act Amendments of 1996, 99-19

Commendations to Apple for release of accessible iPhone, 2009-04

Commendations to congress-people for efforts to ensure accessibility, 94-10

Equality in telecommunications must include designing and building access features into equipment at the same price to consumers as is charged for equipment used by non-disabled people, 2008-18

Promotes the purpose and value of Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and offers ACB’s assistance to its members and affiliates in filing appropriate complaints when telecommunications equipment and services are inaccessible, 2001-14

Seeking national exemption to 411 charges for people who are blind/visually impaired, 2005-01

Sirius XM Radio, 2012-05

Sprint, ACB regards the repeated failure of Sprint to meet even minimal accessibility benchmarks as unconscionable and unacceptable, 2010-20

Telecommunications Act of 1996, Section 255, and ACB to seek introduction and adoption of federal legislation which will require cost parity for telecommunications equipment and services between non-disabled users, and blind, low vision, or disabled users who require accessibility features in order to achieve full access, 2007-12

Telecommunications Policy, 78‑18, 90‑19, 93-17, 97-04

Telephone Issues

Access to addresses, Yellow Pages etc., 89‑17
Access to paratransit service listings, 94-09
Access to telephone network, 90‑08, 90‑19
Access to free directory assistance, 72‑02

Cellular telephones

Commends the ACB officers, board of directors, and staff, and others for filing a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 seeking to require that manufacturers develop and market cellular phones that have features that are accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, and commends those manufacturers of cellular phones who have begun to work with ACB to explore means by which their products can be made accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-16
Requests that providers of cellular telephone service make directory assistance available free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-17
Urges manufacturers and developers of cellular equipment to acknowledge that much additional work is needed to design and market cellular telephones which provide access to all available features on the equipment for all disability groups, 2003-15

TELEVISION (see also ACCESS, Access to Information; RADIO READING SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATIONS):

21^st Century Telecommunications Act, H.R. 3101, 2010-03 (later the 21^st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act), 2010-03

Access to commercial and other advertising, 2018-08

Access to audio description through PBS-SoCal, 2016-09

Calling for movie studios to fund video description, 95-01

Commends Lifetime Television for making information available on its web site pertaining to its upcoming video-described programming, 2002-05

Descriptive Video Service, 88‑16

Descriptive video, calling for policy and/or budget line items
- Public Broadcasting-Funded Projects, 96-05, 2021-11
National Endowment for the Arts-Funded Projects, 96-06
Producers of programs which are PBS-funded, 96-08
Line-item in final budgets of all projects, 96-09, 96-10

Emergency Messages, voiceover, 78‑06, 87‑28, 91‑02

H.R. 3015 of 1978 opposed, 78‑18

Newspaper listings for audio description, 93-14

Public Affairs Programs, 78‑18

Public Radio and Television, 78‑18, 94-16, 96-08

Public Service Announcements, 78‑18

QVC product information, including prices and item numbers, 2010-15

Second Audio Program for video description, use of, 95-02

Television set-top boxes, 2014-16

Urges the FCC to require satellite and cable companies to make listings of the stations they receive and the day’s programming for each channel fully accessible to blind and visually impaired subscribers, 99-03
Urges the FCC to require that weather notices, telephone numbers, Internet addresses and similar information contained in PSAs, emergency announcements and commercials be verbally announced, 2000-05
Verbal Announcement of On‑Screen Information, 78‑06, 91‑02

THANKS AND APPRECIATION (see also COMMENDATIONS): 86‑38? (no copy)

ACB for Help with Illinois Vending Program, 70‑02

Allis Chalmers Co., convention assistance, 76‑02

Aloha Council, quarantine modification efforts, 84‑26

Apple Corp., iTunes, Pixar, and the Media Access Group at WGBH, 2010-17

ATBCB, signage and markings in public buildings, 84‑02

Audible and talking signage providers at 1993 ACB convention, 93-25, 96-25

Cohen, Melvin of the Tape Library, Atlanta, GA, 63‑01

Congress-people

Rep. Tom Campbell, amendments to SSDI substantial gainful activity standard, 91‑30

Rep. Tony Coelho, ADA of 1988, 88‑13

Sen. Jennings Randolph,

Career of service to the handicapped, 83‑14

monitoring and improvement of Randolph‑Sheppard program, 86‑32

Rep. Edward Roybal, funding of independent living services for older blind individuals, 91‑29

Sen. Lowell Weicker, ADA of 1988, 88‑13

Thanks to Congress for retaining the Randolph-Sheppard priority, 2012-13

Transportation Safety Administration for enforcing service dog relief areas within airport security, 2011-09

Conventions

ACB Media, 2022-31
Convention centers, 2001-31, 2003-09, 2022-28
Disappointment and regret that the audio streaming services for the 2000 convention were wholly inadequate and caused the streaming to fail, 2000-53
Host affiliates and committees, 65‑13, 67‑13, 80‑29, 81‑13, 82‑19, 83‑30, 84‑30, 85‑31, 86‑37, 87‑38, 88‑24, 97-40, 98-43, 99-47, 2000-52, 2001-30, 2002-32, 2003-10, 2004-10, 2005-10, 2006-27, 2007-34, 2008-20, 2009-23, 2010-24, 2011-24, 2012-17, 2013-23, 2014-19, 2015-19, 2016-24, 2017-27, 2018-22, 2019-19, 2022-29
Hotels, 65‑13, 67‑13, 80‑30, 82‑18, 83‑29, 84‑29, 85‑30, 86‑36, 87‑39, 88‑25, 96-25, 97-39, 98-44, 99-46, 2000-50, 2001-31, 2002-30, 2003-09, 2004-09, 2005-09, 2006-26, 2007-33, 2008-19, 2009-22, 2010-25, 2011-23, 2012-16, 2013-22, 2014-18, 2015-18, 2016-23, 2017-26, 2018-21, 2019-17, 2022-28
Los Angeles Department of Transportation, for installing experimental accessible pedestrian signals at intersections near the national convention site, 99-44
National Association of Parents of the Visually Impaired (NAPVI), for holding its convention jointly with ACB, 98-42
Police, 2019-18
Scoop Masters, 2005-33
Volunteers 97-38, 98-45, 99-45, 2000-51, 2001-32, 2002-31, 2003-08, 2004-08, 2005-08, 2006-28, 2007-35, 2008-21, 2009-24, 2010-23, 2011-25, 2012-18, 2013-24, 2014-20, 2015-20, 2016-25, 2017-28, 2018-23, 2019-20, 2022-30

Convention Committee/Convention Coordinating Committee, 2005-11

Generally, 88‑26, 2022-31
format of large print convention materials, 88‑15

IRS, for the training and hiring of persons who are blind or who have low vision, 2010-10

National Council of State Agencies for the Blind, facilitating vendors conference, 94-28

National Staff, work on ADA of 1988, 88‑13

THRIFT STORES (see also FUNDS AUTHORIZED OR COMMITTED; INTERNAL MATTERS):

Revenue Sharing

all affiliates, 76‑23 (tabled)

local affiliates, 86‑16 (defeated)

TITLE XX (see also ADULT BLIND; AFFILIATES; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; SOCIAL SECURITY; SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME; TAX MATTERS):

Affiliate Assistance in Monitoring State Programs, 78‑20

Planning Documents and Other Materials in Accessible Media, 78‑07

Trader Joe’s, 2019-02

TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL (see also ACCESS; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; DEAF‑BLIND; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE; GUIDE DOGS, Hawaii Quarantine; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; SUBWAY SAFETY; WHITE CANE):

ACB to advocate for the expansion of safe, accessible, and affordable transportation for people who are blind or visually impaired, 2004-18

Access to National Parks, Monuments, etc., 76‑11

Air Travel

Generally, 80‑22
airfare concession, generally, 63‑04, 69‑08
Access to airline websites, 2003-01
Access to airport kiosks, 2008-11

Greyhound

Access to Greyhound’s website, customer services, and affiliated websites, 2015-12
Calls on Greyhound Lines, Inc., the federal government and other appropriate parties to work together to maintain over-the-road bus services to all communities currently served by that company, 2004-17

Guide dogs on planes, regulations regarding, 2017-05

ACB and GDUI to advise DOT that inconsistencies across the airline industry with regard to the content and implementation of the current attestation forms have meant that passengers with disabilities bear a burden that is unreasonable, and in some cases, insurmountable, 2023-15
ACB calls upon the Department of Transportation to change certain recommendations contained in its proposed regulations under the Air Carrier Access Act, 2005-07
Harmonizing the Department of Transportation’s regulations on service dogs with those of the Department of Justice, 2013-05, 2016-14
Supports efforts by the International Federation of Guide Dog Schools to advocate for reasonable exemptions to permit guide dogs with appropriate identification, regardless of their country of origin, to accompany their blind handlers into, and out of, the United Kingdom, 2001-20

for deaf‑blind when traveling with companion/guide, 73‑03

emergency oxygen and exit procedures, 85‑24

Airports and Other Terminals, arrival/departure information, 78‑07

Amtrak

ACB strongly urges Amtrak to include the disability discount as one of the options when purchasing a ticket using a smartphone app, 2017-07
ACB urges Congress and the President to appropriate funding for Amtrak at a level no less than the amount appropriated for the current fiscal year, 2005-21
ACB urges Congress to enact and the President to sign into law S1991, the National Defense Rail Act, and urges Congress to appropriate additional funds to ensure the continued operation and expansion of Amtrak, 2002-08

Accessible/Audible Pedestrian Signals (see also right turn on red), 77‑14, 83‑20, 98-13, 99-02, 99-25, 2010-01, 2017-24

affiliates to help increase installations, 83‑20
installed
Oakland, California, 86‑24
Salt Lake City, 80‑24
information issues, 78‑07
leading pedestrian interval, 2019-06
uniform national standards, 91‑12

Committee on Signage, 81‑08

Crosswalk Markings, 86‑09

Deaf‑Blind

air travel, 80‑22
airfare concessions when traveling with a companion/guide, 73‑03

Department of Transportation, 2005-06, 2005-07, 2018-14, 2021-13, 2019-14

Destination elevators, 2007-02

Detectable Directional Surfaces, 85‑22, 86‑08, 90‑03

Detectable warning standards, 92-04, 2011-06

Detectable Warning Surfaces, 89‑12, 89‑13, 90‑03, 93-21, 94-06, 94-20, 94-27, 96-18, 98-13

Development of Standard Disadvantaged Pedestrian Sign, 77‑14

Electrically Powered Vehicles, 91‑25

Expanding relationships with airlines, guide dog users, 2018-10

Elevator Markings

ANSI proposals inadequate, 78‑01
implementation of previous resolutions, 86‑12
need for both braille and large print, 78‑02
need for uniformity, 74‑04

Emergency Exits and Procedures, 78‑07

Environmental Access Committee (see ENVIRONMENTAL ACCESS COMMITTEE), 78‑03, 89‑13

Exemption of Public Transportation from Section 504 Opposed, 80‑08

Fares discount reciprocity among public transportation facilities, 93-11

Fuel Ration Coupons, 79‑13

Funding for public transportation, 96-03

Guide Dogs (see also GUIDE DOGS), Hawaii quarantine, 79‑07, 90‑14

Hazardous vehicular ways, detectable warnings needed for, 95-13

Hotel room markings, 86‑12

Hotel shuttle services, accessibility to all convention attendees, 2004-23

Increasing funding support for public transit systems, 2010-05

Intracity Transportation, affiliates' assistance requested, 71‑05, 85‑16, 97-09, 07-10

National transportation policy initiative, 94-14

National database of fixed route bus & train services as well as paratransit, 97-09

Non‑discrimination in Travel Industry, 84‑04

Orientation and Mobility (see also ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY), instruction reform, 90‑21

Paratransit Services

Adversely affected by Americans with Disabilities Act, 91‑05
Advocating for the establishment of a state legislative task force on paratransit services, 2018-13
As one option in bimodal approach, 88‑12
Comprehensive policy to be developed, 84‑28
Door-to-door paratransit, 2017-08
Paratransit eligibility requirements, ADA Title II, 97-21
standardized phone listings, 94-09

Public Mass Transit

Accessible VIN numbers, 2006-25
Accessibility considerations, 79‑05, 85‑16, 90‑12, 96-17, 2006-25
And access to shopping malls by public transit vehicles, 98-33
Requesting that transit systems establish clear, written policies for implementing the ADA requirements for making route destination and stop announcements, 2010-04

Funding

Funding DOT programs, 96-03

Directs ACB’s board, officers and staff to take all actions necessary to ensure that the reauthorization of TEA-21 contains significant increases in funding levels for public transit and other transportation programs that benefit people who are blind and visually impaired, 2003-18
Requiring accessibility for people with disabilities, including people who are blind or have low vision, as a condition of funding, 2019-14
Seeks the inclusion of provisions in highway funding legislation which would provide funds to transit agencies for installing detectable warnings at all transit station platforms, 2003-30

Special services, 85‑16

Urges state and local jurisdictions to include requirements in their traffic manuals regarding audible pedestrian signals, and specific requirements for the signals, 2002-24

Vs. funding of highways, 91‑05

Rideshare services, careful study of, 2014-17

Ride-sharing service providers, changes in the service platform to allow passengers who are blind or have low vision to communicate their preferred language and to ensure that drivers who may take their ride requests are limited to those who speak the preferred language of the passenger who is blind or has low vision, 2023-13

Request that the U.S. Department of Justice judiciously determine whether the ongoing lack of effective action by ride-share companies to prevent drivers from denying service to guide dog users equals a discriminatory pattern of practice, as defined under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, 2023-14

Right turn on red, 77‑06, 91‑19

Shared mobility devices, 2019-15

Subway Safety, 84‑06

Tactile Edging Surfaces, 89‑12, 89‑13

Tactile Surface Warning Indicators, 89‑13, 96-14

Talking Signs, 90‑09

Supports the immediate installation of remote infrared audible signs in the transportation system of Washington, D.C. as a model to demonstrate that it is possible to provide, through the use of these signs, travel independence to people who are blind or visually impaired, 2003-14

White Canes

federal legislation desirable to achieve uniformity, 74‑01, 75‑18

White Cane Safety Day, 63‑03

U

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (see also INTERNAL MATTERS):

Committees To Be Appointed

guidelines for instructional materials on attitudes toward blindness for elementary and secondary students, 89‑04

Task Force on Access to Information via Computer, 79‑11

To explore the feasibility of creating an intensive training academy designed to train suitable people with limited or no vision for mainstream technology careers, 2016-21

Electronic Communications Network, consultation with VIDPI committee, 86‑35

Legislation To Be Prepared

credit cards, use conditioned on having valid driver's license, 87‑16

technology, accessibility and affordability, 83‑11

Negotiations with Action for Volunteer Assistance to ACB and Affiliates, 76‑14

Policies to be Developed

assurance of non‑discrimination by NLS against HIV‑infected patrons,90‑10

guidelines for braille and large print registration and pre‑registration materials, 87‑36

paratransit services, 84‑28

recruitment of minority group candidates for ACB Board and Staff positions, 85‑15

Reports Due

ACB’s impact on regulatory treatment of Talking Signs under the Americans with Disabilities Act, 90‑09

access to computers, 90‑07

access to the telephone network, 90‑08

providing ACB materials in accessible media, 91‑23

Recruitment of minority group candidates for ACB board and staff positions, 85‑15

student resources study committee, 90‑18

tactile surface warning indicators, 89‑13

task force on access to information via computers, 79‑11

UNITED NATIONS

Urges the President of the United States, the Secretary of State, and the United States Ambassador to the United Nations to withdraw opposition to a proposed treaty on disability rights, 2003-12

UNITED STATES RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

UNIVERSAL DESIGN

Northwest Airlines, universal design principles, 97-36

Universal design, need to accommodate people who are blind or have low vision, 95-15

V

VETERANS

AbilityOne contracts with Department of Veterans Affairs, 2019-03

ACB urges the Department of Veterans Affairs to make policy changes enabling the option for provision of retraining on computers through qualified local providers as well as through traditional VA program(s), 2003-24

ACB urges the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adopt policies that provide a sufficient per diem for states to purchase adjustment to sight loss services or that would allow the Visual Impairment Service (VIS) programs to purchase these services, 2006-03

Directs ACB officers, directors, and staff to communicate to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs the necessity for the department to comply with the accessibility requirements of Section 508, 2005-19

Directs ACB’s executive director to renew efforts to establish the lines of communication with Sec. Togo West, 99-32

VISIONSERVE ALLIANCE

Use of proper job titles in all communications about the nationally certified professionals in the field of vision habilitation and rehabilitation, 2019-05

VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT (H.R. 6, 101st Congress):

Commingling of Funds, 90‑04

VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION (see also ACCESS; ACCREDITATION; AERBVI; AIDS AND APPLIANCES; AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; ART; BLINDNESS AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; CHILDREN; DEAF‑BLIND; ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; NATIONAL ACCREDITATION COUNCIL; NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INDEPENDENT LIVING; NATIONAL REHABILITATION ASSOCIATION; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; PARTICULAR POPULATIONS; REHABILITATION SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; SHELTERED WORKSHOPS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY RELATED ASSISTANCE FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES ACT; TRANSPORTATION AND TRAVEL; VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ACT): 84‑21

ACB as consultant to agencies, 81‑03, 83‑23

ACB joins with Oklahoma Council of the Blind in continuing to support the delivery of categorically specific services to people who are blind or visually impaired by field and supervisory staff having expertise in blindness, 2002-19

AERBVI Requested to Set Standards for Training Programs, 84‑16

Auxiliary Services vs. Placement, 67‑02

Blind and Visually Impaired as Separate, Distinct Group, 68‑05, 77‑16, 80‑11, 89‑21, 91‑20

Blindfold training should be an option, not mandatory, 2001-29

Careers in Art, 87‑21

Client Rights on Case Closure, 65‑05, 66‑06, 73‑09

Client Status as Affecting Employers' Tax Credit, 81‑22, 83‑07

Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, 83‑23

Competitive employment, definition of, 97-22

Eligibility, opposing means test, 65‑08, 97-31

Employment, link competitive with earning of federal minimum wage, 96-12

Equality with Programs for Veterans, 74‑12

Favoring Service Delivery Through Specialized Agency Rather Than "One‑Stop" Approach, 77‑16

Funding

categorical funding of long-term training programs, 89‑15
commingling of various funds opposed, 68‑05, 90‑04

H.R. 1617, 95-04

Importance of Braille Instruction, 81‑05

Independent Living Centers Serving Primarily the Blind, 97-14

compliance indicators, 89‑21

Instructs ACB officers, directors and staff to advocate for an increase in federal funding for the Title VII, Chapter 2 program, with the increased federal funding to be allocated based on the population of each state 55 years and over and indexed according to the cost of living, 2004-14

Job services consolidation, position on, 94-25, 95-04, 95-06

Low Vision Training for Counselors, 80‑13

Opposes services provided by individuals not trained in blindness skills, directs ACB leadership to participate in an AFB initiative to attempt to resolve these concerns, 98-29

Quality of Service as Affected by Closure Quotas, 73‑09

Rehabilitation Act of 1973

Enforcement, 76‑21

monitoring by state affiliates, 78‑21

S. 143, 95-04

Self‑support Plans, removing time limits, 62‑16, 63‑02

Services to Students, 86‑33

Sheltered Workshops, proper use and objectives, 64‑04

Shortage of Trained Personnel, 76‑06, 84‑16

"Sole state" agencies, opposition to, 92-18

specialized and categorical services, 96-13, 97-13

opposes NICL position, 96-15

Study of Matching Funds Formula, 64‑01

Study of Legislative Proposals, 62‑17

Training of Counselors Working with the Deaf‑Blind, 64‑11

Urges RSA to promulgate an NPRM which strongly encourages state vocational rehabilitation agencies to provide assistive technology to blind clients who are job-seeking, 2000-13

VOTING (see also ACCESS)

ACB to prepare a Presidential Candidates’ Questionnaire requesting candidates’ positions on issues such as: identifiable paper currency, the potential development of federal regulations regarding hybrid and "quiet" vehicles, accessibility of commercial websites, telecommunications and video programming accessibility, Medicare coverage for low-vision devices and other durable medical equipment, GPS and other mobility devices, computer access technology products and software used by people who are blind or visually impaired, 2008-05

Access and best practices, 2013-21, 2021-21

Access to absentee and vote-by-mail ballots, 2018-02

Access to electronic polling books or voter verification systems, 2018-03

Authorizes the officers, directors, and staff to take all necessary actions to ensure the accessibility of voting equipment and procedures, including a voter verifiable paper audit trail, wherever adopted, 2005-16

Opposes all efforts to delay purchase of accessible voting equipment because of unfounded and unsubstantiated security concerns about the integrity of ballots cast on DRE voting systems, 2003-20

Reiterates ACB’s opposition to any delays in providing voting systems accessible to, and usable by, people who are blind or visually impaired, when such delays are based upon requirements for, or consideration of, the inclusion of a voter-verifiable paper ballot requirement for direct recording equipment voting systems, 2004-11

State and local governments

Provision of accessible electoral materials, 92-24

Supports legislation which mandates that all states must provide, with all deliberate speed, access to private, independent and verifiable ballots for persons who have disabilities. 2001-23

Supports the provisions of S. 511, which would amend the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 in a number of positive, constructive ways, 99-15

Task Force on Accessible Voting, 2001-28

Urges ACB’s state affiliates, and their chapters, to initiate ongoing dialogue with county election supervisors, county commissioners, state election officials, secretaries of state, and, when appropriate, state legislators, for the purpose of making changes to insure that accessible voting systems are available in all precincts, 2001-12

Urges state affiliates and their chapters to advocate for the immediate use of accessible voting methods which will insure the right of people who are blind and visually impaired to cast a secret ballot, 2000-42

Urging members, chapters and affiliates to be aware of national, state and local initiatives, and to reach out to candidates to discuss policy priorities, 2016-15

Voting access position paper, 97-30

Voting machines, 2011-18

W

WEATHER

Urges the FCC to require that weather notices, telephone numbers, Internet addresses and similar information contained in PSAs, emergency announcements and commercials be verbally announced, 2000-05

WHITE CANE (see GUIDE DOGS; ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY; TRANSPORTATION and TRAVEL):

Air Travel, 80‑22

Commendation of Dr. Richard Hoover, 86‑29

Lions Replica Cane, updating image, 2014-02

White Cane Safety Day, 63‑03

WHITE HOUSE

Audio-described tour, 2018-19

WHITE HOUSE CONFERENCE ON DISABLED PERSONS (see also DECADE OF DISABLED PERSONS):

Called For, 84‑13

WOMEN (see PARTICULAR POPULATIONS):

Universal accessibility of household appliances, both large and small, 2007-18

WORK‑STUDY PROGRAM (see also EMPLOYMENT): 70‑01

WORLD COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF THE BLIND/WORLD BLIND UNION (see also RELATIONS WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS):

ACB supports creation and adoption of an international protocol that would facilitate the free trade of accessible copyrighted works among countries with appropriately robust copyright laws; directs ACB to advocate through the World Blind Union, 2000-46

Braille Recycling Program, 80‑01

Directs ACB to call upon GS1, and any other international standard-setting bodies, to incorporate accessibility compliance requirements into any future QR and barcode standards, 2024-15

Obtaining Seat in U.S. Delegation, 62‑07, 63‑05, 67‑09

— Updated December 2024