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NFB and Amazon.com on Accessibility

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So, someone came from Amazon.com to speak about this at this years' NFB Convention in Dallas. My impression was that this advocacy was linked to the Target department store lawsuit, because Amazon does the technical work behind the Target website, which has been inaccessible. NFB got them to commit to work on accessibility.

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I'll dash back to Palo Alto Tuesday night for our quarterly board meeting, and then leave Wednesday night for the NIMAS Technical Committee meeting in Dallas. It's an interesting and high powered group, and I'm looking forward to talking about Security and Privacy of Information. and we're excited that Bookshare.org is part of this effort.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

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Boston Flying directly from Seoul to Boston (via Dallas), I jumped into an experts’ meeting on the Marrakesh Treaty. Of course, being in proximity to North Korea, one of the most dire countries in terms of respect for human rights, meant that this topic came up frequently.

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