(As amended through the 2025 National Conference and Convention)
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Below you will find the links to the pages of each of the candidates for the Board of Directors and the Board of Publications. The candidates answered the questions posed by the Board of Publications, below. Elections will be held throughout the 2026 ACB Conference and Convention. For more information on the annual convention, please visit the convention page.
ACB signed onto a letter with other disability advocates to reach out to Congress to speak out against a new “notice and cure” bill that would amend the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Similar bills have unfortunately continued to pop up over the years. These bills would give businesses a timeframe to make their services accessible to people with disabilities after they are notified of the access barrier.
This newest bill, H.R. 6453, would give private businesses 30 days to make their business accessible in the built environment after a…
Below are the links to the meeting minutes of the American Council of the Blind's Board of Directors for the year 2023.
Dear ACB,
Please see the below advocacy alert from Prevent Blindness regarding the opportunity to ask your representatives to support funding for vision and eye health programs.
Prevent Blindness Advocacy Alert
A bipartisan congressional letter supporting vision and eye health funding is circulating right now, and the sign-on deadline is March 25.
We're asking you to take one minute to urge your Representative to sign the Support Funding for Vision and Eye Health Programs in Fiscal Year 2027 Appropriations letter led by Representatives Gus Bilirakis…
Dear ACB community,
The US Department of Justice may be coming out with an interim final rule (IFR) without public comment regarding Title II of the ADA. This is an unusual step, as IFRs without public comment are generally reserved only if agencies have a good cause finding that taking comments from the public would be impracticable, unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest. Although we do not know what the IFR will say until it is published, it is likely to alter the protections of Title II of the ADA which we fought so hard for. ACB,…