First Published Friday, 1st August, 2008.
Fwd:
Act to Protect the ADA Regulations -Information Bulletin, # 256 (7/08)
About five weeks ago, I wrote “Good-Bye Full Accessibility, ” Information
Bulletin #250 in which I focused on only two disastrous aspects in the
proposed Department of Justice Regulations that significantly change both
Title II and Title III.
Recently, the NDRN and DREDF, as well as other disability attorneys, wrote
a set of “model” comments in response to the Department of Justice’s
(DOJ’s) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on these proposed changes.
The model comments are now available on the DREDF website:
http://www.dredf. org/DOJ_NPRM.
Once you get to this website, you can see all the proposed changes, not
just the two I raised, by clicking on the left column. DREDF and NDRN
intend that the model comments be a starting point for disability rights
groups and other interested parties to use in drafting and submitting
their own comments. Feel free to “cut and pasted.”
Where possible, please provide personal anecdotes and experiences to adapt
and personalize the model comments. Tell DOJ what accessibility problems
you have faced since the ADA was enacted, what you have tried to do, how
it’s been unsuccessful, and why making the proposed changes will only make
it more difficult to achieve “equal opportunities” and “full access.” You
might even mention, if it’s true, whether or not you filed a complaint
with DOJ and what, if anything, happened with it.
Even if you block and copy, please take a few minutes to submit comments
using the Regulations. gov website.
Remember, the deadline for submitting comments to the proposed changes is
very soon! Don’t mourn, organize and get your friends to also write in
their personal stories.
Steve Gold, The Disability Odyssey continues
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