From: Barbara Freeman 
Subject: Re: Bell Atlantic and NYNEX Universal Design Advertisement in USA 
(Forward)
Dear Fellow Federationist:
	I can't believe it.  These people have taken out a whole page in
USA Today to brag that their clients can access our Newsline service
through their cell phones.  Now, I do not believe that it is cost
effective to read the newspaper from a cell phone but it is a service
invented and marketed by the NFB not Bell Atlantic.  Now the leaders in
the east ought to make lemonaid with this add and work and Bell Atlantic
and NYNEX to fund Newsline in their area and then they would be making
something accessable to the blind.  
Cyberspace Barbie  barbie@paifier.com
On Sat, 8 Feb 1997, Mike Paciello wrote:
> 
> 
> Featuring blind employee, Dave DeNotaris, Bell Atlantic and NYNEX took out
> a full page advertisement in todays (2/7) USA Today, page 13C (Sports
> Section). Among other things, the advertisement highlights the fact the
> both companys "have adopted Universal Design Principles to make all of our
> phone services easy and convenient for the 20% of Amercians who have some
> kind of disability -- and everyone else, too."
> 
> First I applaud both companys for bring the issues of disabilities,
> accessibility, and Universal Design to the fore. I wonder if my good friend
> Jim Barry was involved at all.
> 
> More importantly, I wonder if anyone has the answers to the following
> questions:
> 
> 1. Which Universal Design Principles are they referring to? The TAAC
> guidelines? Trace? Other?
> 
> 2. How accurate is the 20% figure?
> 
> 3. The add features Mr. DeNotaris using his cellphone to "read" the
> newspaper. Is there a list of newspapers that offers this service?
> 
> Thanks folks. I'm posting this series of questions on other listservs as 
well.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
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> Michael G. Paciello
> Executive Director, Yuri Rubinsky Insight Foundation
> E-Mail: mailto:paciello@yuri.org
> Http: http://www.yuri.org/
> Tel: +1 603 598 9544
> FAX: +1 603 598 2839
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