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Event: Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part1 - Wednesday, 7 April 2021
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Event: Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part 2 - Wednesday, 21 April 2021
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Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part 2 When: Where: Organizer: US Access Board Description: This session will continue discussion of communication accessibility in hailing and interacting with autonomous vehicles for passengers with hearing, visual, or cognitive disabilities. |
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Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part1 - Wed, 04/07/2021 2:00pm-3:30pm
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Reminder: Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part1 When: Wednesday, 7 April 2021, 2:00pm to 3:30pm, (GMT-04:00) America/New York Where:Webinar Organizer: US Access Board Description: Part 1 of a 2 part Series |
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Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part 2 - Wed, 04/21/2021
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Accessibility for Passengers with Sensory and Cognitive Disabilities: Part 2 When: Where: Description: This session will continue discussion of communication accessibility in hailing and interacting with autonomous vehicles for passengers with hearing, visual, or cognitive disabilities. |
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HLAA Groups Upgrade
Carla Beyer-Smolin
Dear HLAA Groups.io Member,
HLAA is in the process of upgrading our HLAA Groups.io accounts to Enterprise level. The transition should occur soon, possibly this week. We have been assured that all HLAA groups should continue to function as normal, but we wanted to alert you of the upgrade, in case there are any possible issues. The HLAA Groups that will be included in this upgrade are: HLAA Leaders HLAA Newsletter Editors HLAA Advocacy HLAA Tech HLAA GITHL We hope the process will be seamless and we will notify you of future changes as the Enterprise upgrade is made. We thank you for your patience and appreciate your participation in HLAA Groups on Groups.io. Best regards, Carla Beyer-Smolin Chapter and Membership Coordinator |
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HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley’s Email Account Hacked
Carla Beyer-Smolin
Dear HLAA Community, Earlier today (June 30), you may have received a spam email requesting a gift card from HLAA Executive Director Barbara Kelley. This was a spam email–please do not respond. Barbara would never request this from our HLAA Chapters. She would never make any requests outside of HLAA. The HLAA National Office immediately connected this morning with our IT support team when we learned of this spam email. This email was sent from bkelley.hearingloss@..., which is not a legitimate email address. It is important to know how to look for spam email, scams and phishing. We hope you find these resources helpful. How to Recognize and Avoid Phishing Scams Spammers Get Up Close and Personal Thank you for your support of HLAA. Kind Regards,
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jury duty
I had an embarrassing situation when I tried to get assistive listening devices after being called to jury duty. I was impressed that the jury questionnaire had a box to check if you needed assistive listening devices. But when I got to the jury room no one knew what they are. I kept asking if they had been found, but by the time I was called to the courtroom none had been located.
In the courtroom as the judge was about to describe the case I asked about the ALD so I could understand her explanation. She called the clerk over, and everyone had to sit and wait for 15 minutes before the clerk returned with an ALD. I was then dismissed even tho’ I hadn’t indicated that I wanted to be excused. I asked on my chapter email if anyone had been bumped when they asked for an ALD. Seven people replied. Six had been bumped. Only one had actually served and she said it was awful because the sound kept cutting in and out. The Hearing Life magazine had a story about a similar incident in California that led to the US Attorney enforcing the ADA. Any experience in other places? Is this an issue the HLAA could look into? Carol Agate Boston chapter |
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Re: jury duty
Lise Hamlin
Getting accommodations for people with hearing loss for jury duty has been an issue for a very long time. See this article by Brenda Battat, former executive director of HLAA, written back in 2011: https://www.hearingloss.org/wp-content/uploads/Battat_Column_MarApr_2011_HLM.pdf?pdf=2011-hlm-mp-bbattat NY State, which does not have any automatic exemptions, has a brochure that includes a brief look at case law regarding jury duty for people with disabilites. https://ww2.nycourts.gov/sites/default/files/document/files/2018-08/jurors-w-disabilities02-03-14-1.pdf
Inclusion of people with disabilities in jury duty is covered under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, so you can file a complaint with the US Department of Justice. How to File an ADA Complaint You can also do some local investigating and education the local court system - in fact, you have already started. The local court system should hear about what you have learned so far. It may be a long process of finding the right people and how to make change happen, but your actions could result in a more enlightened court view of accommodating people with hearing loss. Thanks, Carol for starting this thread. If others have had experiences in jury duty or finding ways to ensure the court provides accommodations, please do chime in. |
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U.S. Access Board Seeks Comment on Draft Strategic Plan for FY 2022-2026
Lise Hamlin
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Hearing Loss Association of America - How I Used Zoom to Learn About Hearing Health #HLAA News
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How I Used Zoom to Learn About Hearing HealthBy Tim Browning
Carrie Johnson Director of Communications Hearing Loss Association of America HLAA Virtual Convention 2021 By Carrie Johnson I attended my first HLAA Virtual Convention June 24-26, 2021. I joined... |
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Re: jury duty
Thanks, Lise. Do you have the date issue that included the results of the survey Brenda mentions?
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Hearing Loss Association of America - President Biden Directs HHS to Consider Issuing Proposed Rules within 120 Days for Allowing Hearing Aids to be Sold Over the Counter #HLAA News
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President Biden Directs HHS to Consider Issuing Proposed Rules within 120 Days for Allowing Hearing Aids to be Sold Over the CounterBy Carrie Johnson
Today, U.S. President Biden issued an executive order that directs the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to consider issuing proposed rules within 120 days for allowing hearing aids... |
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Re: jury duty
Lise Hamlin
Carol,
The July/August 2011 issue of Hearing Loss Magazine had the results of that survey. Unfortunately, at that time we did not post all the articles on line. Send me an email and I'll send what we do have from that survey LHamlin@... |
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Hearing Loss Association of America - Rules are Long Overdue #HLAA News
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Rules are Long OverdueBy Tim Browning
Lise Hamlin Director of Public Policy Hearing Loss Association of America President Joe Biden Issues Directive for Over-the-Counter Hearing Aids By Lise Hamlin President Joe Biden signed a sweeping... |
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Oops - found the link!
Please disregard my previous email 😊
CaptionCall Now Has More Options to Better Serve Those That Need Captions: • No Internet & No Landline Solutions • Android & iPhone Mobile Apps • Remote Assist Self Install or In-Home Red Carpet Delivery & Set-Up
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a Life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill
Lisa Mottesheard CaptionCall Community Outreach Services HLAA Advocate/Greater Richmond Outreach Chair 804) 349-7567 Alt: 804) 908-0179 Fax: 804) 783-6856 LMottesheard@... CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE. This e-mail transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail messages attached to it, may contain confidential and proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, or a person responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this message is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. If you have received this transmission in error, please immediately notify me by reply e-mail at LMottesheard@... or by telephone at [Phone Number: 804-349-7567 and destroy the original transmission and its attachments without reading them or saving them to disk.
CaptionCall is available in the United States ONLY. FEDERAL LAW PROHIBITS ANYONE BUT REGISTERED USERS WITH HEARING LOSS FROM USING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) CAPTIONED TELEPHONES WITH THE CAPTIONS TURNED ON. IP captioned telephone service may use a live operator. The operator generates captions of what the other party to the call says. These captions are then sent to your phone. There is a cost for each minute of captions generated, paid from a federally administered fund. No costs are passed along to individuals who qualify for the service. The CaptionCall phone remains property of CaptionCall in order to provide ongoing support, service, and upgrades.
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Hearing Loss Association of America - Do You Believe Everything You Read on the Internet or See on TV? #HLAA News
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Do You Believe Everything You Read on the Internet or See on TV?By Tim Browning
Barbara Kelley Executive Director Hearing Loss Association of America. We have a response in our family when one of us shares a factoid suspect to truth. We reply sarcastically with, “It must be true... |
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Hearing Loss Association of America - Action Alert: Medicare Coverage of Hearing Aids #HLAA News
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Action Alert: Medicare Coverage of Hearing AidsBy Carrie Johnson
You may be aware that there is a movement afoot to expand Medicare to include hearing health care. That would mean for the first time, people who rely on Medicare to pay their medical bills would... |
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Closed Captioning Mandate for Public Venues
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Nanci Linke-Ellis
I am looking for a sponsor on the California state level to create a bill mandating that televisions in hotels, bars, restaurants, etc. have captions turned on. I am aware of Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Maryland, and Rochester bills. If anyone else is in the process of attempting to get a state representative sponsor a bill in another state, would you please let me know?
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Hearing Loss Association of America - It Seems Everyone Has a Scam These Days #HLAA News
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It Seems Everyone Has a Scam These DaysBy Tim Browning
Barbara Kelley Executive Director Hearing Loss Association of America. In the past three months, I’ve had my email hacked, received a text that said my Facebook account would be suspended if I didn’t... |
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#cal-notice #Legislation
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Assemblyman Mullin has been approached about sponsoring a closed captioning in public places bill. It will be considered in the Fall when they review all possible legislation. I will keep everyone apprised.
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