[Athen] AHEAD E-Text Site Update

[James Bailey]

The main force behind it is Ted Wenk from the Oregon Advocacy Center. I and a few other Oraheaders have a meeting with him in mid-August to learn more about the bill.

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James Bailey
Adaptive Technology Access Adviser, University of Oregon
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
Office: 541-346-1076
jbailey at uoregon.edu

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:55:39 -0600, "Marks, Jim" <marks at mso.umt.edu> wrote:

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> Was the NFB of Oregon behind the  adoption of the Oregon 

law?  The NFB's position is that state adoption of post-secondary education 
textbook legislation helps motivate a national solution.  It's a familiar 
pattern since this is exactly what led to NIMAS and NIMAC in IDEA 2004.  
The NFB successfully managed to get about 40 states to adopt legislation that 
called on publishers to provide electronic versions of their K-12 textbooks for 
blind and visually impaired children.  The state laws are known as Braille 
Bills, and  they included other features of benefit to blind and visually 
impaired children.  From the NFB advocacy perspective, even bad state laws 
are helpful.  The ultimate prize here is national legislation, and the NFB 
is well on its way.  Don't know about the rest of you, but I find this 
political process very fascinating. 

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