Berkeley, California (July 25, 2022): The Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) has agreed to put new policies for the testing and evaluation of online learning technology in place to ensure that such technology is fully accessible to the blind and other students with disabilities.
Baltimore, Maryland (March 23, 2023): The National Federation of the Blind made the following statement on the recent unanimous decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Perez v. Sturgis Public Schools.
Washington, DC (March 15, 2023): Recently, two pieces of legislation supported by the National Federation of the Blind, the transformative membership and advocacy organization of blind Americans, were introduced in Congress, only a month after the organization held its annual Washington Seminar, where members from across the nation visit the nation’s capital to advocate for the organization’s legislative priorities.
Washington, DC (February 27, 2023): Joe Orozco, a blind man who sued the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the United States Department of Justice with the assistance of the National Federation of the Blind because he is required to use inaccessible technology in his job as an FBI intelligence analyst, won a major victory in the United States Court of Appea
Baltimore, Maryland (November 9, 2022): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is proud to announce the members of the second cohort of the NFB Teachers of Tomorrow Program.
The Jackson chapter of the National Federation of the Blind of Mississippi, an affiliate of the transformative membership and advocacy organization of blind Americans, is reaching out to blind people and their families to make sure that they can access drinking water and meet related needs during the current crisis.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2022 — Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Representative John P. Sarbanes (D-Md.) introduced The Websites and Software Applications Accessibility Act (S. 4998) and (H.R. 9021) in both the United States Senate and the House of Representatives.
Baltimore, Maryland (July 27, 2022): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is making grant funding available to election jurisdictions to pilot the use of accessible and secure mobile voting as a means for ballot delivery and return for voters with disabilities and military and overseas (UOCAVA) voters in the November 8, 2022 election.
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New Orleans, Louisiana (July 7, 2022): The National Federation of the Blind has presented its Blind Educator of the Year Award to Corey Grandstaff of Vancouver, Washington. Mr. Grandstaff serves as the Associate Director of Transition and Residential Programs at the Washington State School for the Blind (WSSB), a position he has held since 2016. He recently earned his principal certificate from Washington State University. He holds additional certifications from Washington State in the areas of social studies, history, orientation and mobility, and teaching the visually impaired. He earned his M.A. from the University of Northern Colorado in 2015.