Welcome to the California connection for June 24.
From The President
Looking for an easy opportunity to raise money for CCB?
Incoming CCB president Judy Wilkinson and myself have created a team, the California Colossals, for the Brenda Dillon ACB Memorial Walk, to be held on Sunday, July 3, at the 2016 ACB Conference and Convention in Minneapolis. One-half of the funds raised for our team will be going to CCB.
If you are walking in that event, I urge you to join our team. If not, I hope that you will consider sponsoring Judy or myself. Remember, you can walk as a virtual walker, even if you are not at the convention.
You can register online at http://acb.donorpages.com/2016ACBWalk/
or by calling Nancy Becker in the Minneapolis office at (612) 332-3242.
Finally, you may sponsor me online at my page.
Executive Director Recruitment
The California Council of the Blind is seeking applicants for the position of executive director.
You may read or download a copy of the recruitment announcement at:
http://www.ccbnet.org/execdirtr.htm
or find a link to the material on the CCB home page at: http://www.ccbnet.org.
In addition, you may obtain a copy of the recruitment announcement by calling the CCB office at 800-221-6359 or by email ccotb@ccbnet.org
San Gabriel Valley Chapter Event
The San Gabriel Valley Chapter invites you to our Summer Social, on Saturday July 16 from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m. at Alex Di Peppe's Italian Restaurant, in Arcadia.
Everyone will be ordering from a modified menu, with separate checks.
We will have the restaurant to ourselves, with a 50 person limit, so RSVPs will be accepted in the order received, through July 12th.
For more information, or to RSVP, please contact:
Steve Aminoff
Phone: 626-445-6727
Email: s_aminoff@sbcglobal.net
Our chapter looks forward to seeing you on July 16.
Congratulations E*Trade
From Lainey Feingold
Yesterday the company announced a sweeping accessibility initiative that applies to its website, mobile applications and investing platform.
The company worked with blind investors Pratik Patel and Victor Tsaran in Structured Negotiation. No lawsuit was filed or needed.
The Law Office of Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian, of Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho represented the blind investors.
E*Trade will use WCAG 2.0 AA as its access standard, PDF/UA for PDF accessibility, and has established a Digital Accessibility Governance Working Group. Training, usability testing, and an accessibility information page are part of this comprehensive initiative.
E*Trade Accessibility press release
E*Trade Accessibility Agreement
E*Trade's new Accessibility Information Page
Please help us spread the word about this initiative!
Convention And Special Events Archives Comes To ACB Radio
From Brian McCallen
Archives of live and special events, including CCB Conventions, are now available for your listening pleasure with any podcast device by subscribing to http://acbradio.org/acb-events.xml.
This link will soon have the archives from the 2016 ACB Conference and Convention and many more. The archives will also be available through iTunes soon.
Thanks for listening to ACB radio.
Thank you for reading, Have a nice day
