Kelly Pierce,

I think your criticism of AFB is unfounded. Janina Sajka, the director of
information systems did find Peter Verhoeven's comments on another list
and has forwarded them to the appropriate persons. How do you know that
Paul Schroeder wasn't available during this time? I have always found him
to be a very hard working individual. Was he actually the person who
should have been dealing with this?

AFB isn't always perfect in all that they do but neither is your "of" the
blind organization, the NFB. This list is for constructive criticism,
which Peter was doing and not for cutting down good people who are trying
to further the causes of blind people.

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On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Kelly Pierce wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Peter Verhoeven wrote:
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> peter: The tears in my eyes changes to a real river after I read that the American
> peter: Foundation of the Blind has to do something with this website.
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> I forwarded your comments to Paul Schroder, who is in charge of
> telecommunications access issues for the Foundation.  Not surprisingly,
> there has been no reply.  Many blind persons here in the United States
> believe that the foundation does not represent the needs of blind persons
> but rather the agencies and their often well-paid staffs that serve them.
> it is not an organization *of* the blind, where blind persons are working
> together for common good, but it is an organization *for* blind persons,
> where decisions are made without input from elected representatives of blind
> persons.
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> peter: I can understand that a lot of webpages on the Internet are not accessible
> peter: because the webmaster have not the knowledge about accessibility. But I can
> peter: not understand, that a website created on the subject of toys for people
> peter: who are blind or visually impaired can be so inaccessible and I can not
> peter: understand that a blind organization like the American Foundation for the
> peter: Blind can agree with such an inaccessible website?
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> They might if they were paid $150 an hour to consult on the project.  In
> the business of disability, the game is about raising funds for a purpose
> for a project to hire friends and colleagues.  It is also about generating
> revenue for your organization, such as being paid big bucks to consult on
> accessibility.  Not all organizations in the disability or technology
> access community have the same purpose or the same intentions or quality
> of service.
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