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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=154224417-25072007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>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.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR><BR>
<P><FONT size=2>Jim Marks<BR>Director of Disability Services<BR>University of
Montana<BR>jim.marks@umontana.edu<BR><A
href="http://www.umt.edu/dss/">http://www.umt.edu/dss/</A><BR></FONT></P>
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