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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Great Lakes ADA Center, a member of the ADA National Network is sponsoring a Free Webinar session aimed at providing information
 about the pending threats to the ADA within Congress and calling on people to take action at the local level to stop the momentum that has been building.    Act now and share this with your colleagues and friends!   This is a fight that everyone needs to be
 a part of.</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<h3><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">When:   May 1, 2017</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<h3><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Time:  2-3:30pm ET</span><o:p></o:p></h3>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017 (H.R. 620) and similar ADA notification bills are gaining more steam in Congress than ever before.
 If any passes, it will have a devastating impact on the ADA by denying people with disabilities the power to enforce some of its requirements.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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DREDF and other disability rights advocates are working—and need others to join them!—to counter the business lobby, which wants to make it much more difficult to attain accessibility when businesses such as stores, restaurants, hotels, etc. disregard their
 ADA responsibilities.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br>
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What would H.R. 620 (ADA Education and Reform Act of 2017) do?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Remove any incentive for voluntary compliance.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Require a person with a disability who encounters an access barrier
 to send a letter detailing the exact ADA provisions that are being violated.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Reward non-compliance by allowing businesses generous additional
 timelines, even though the ADA's reasonable requirements are already over 25 years old!</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Perpetuate the myth that the ADA benefits unscrupulous lawyers rather
 than the truth: that the ADA is the most important civil rights law for people with disabilities.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:7.0pt">      <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Ignores the extensive, free educational resources already available
 today to any business on how to comply with the law.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Join us for this webinar to learn more about what is happening with this quickly-moving bill, and how you and others can get involved.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The session will be captioned.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Telephone option (not toll free) is available as an option for audio or you can also connect via mobile app (limited accessibility
 for screen reader/voice over users) via your iPhone or Android device, including Kindle Fire HD</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Registration is available on-line at : <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ada-audio.org/"><span style="color:#954F72">www.ada-audio.org</span></a> 
 (you will be required to set up an account on this website if you do not already have one)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Hope to see you on line</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">L. Scott Lissner, Chair AHEAD Public Policy Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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