[blindza] Re: [Blind] Article: DA launches Braille manifesto
- From: "Cathy Donaldson" <mwcathdo@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'National Accessibility Portal mailing list with topics focused on accessibility for users with visual disabilities.'" <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 17:30:55 +0200
Well done for Braille.
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Sent: 25 March 2014 04:15 PM
To: NAPSA Blind
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Subject: [Blind] Article: DA launches Braille manifesto
DA launches Braille manifesto
March 25 2014 at 01:23pm
By SAPA
Cape Town - Democratic Alliance leader Helen Zille launched a Braille
version of her party's 2014 election manifesto on Tuesday.
"This is a first for South Africa. Following this handover today, we will
make copies of this Braille manifesto available at every DA office in the
country," she said, speaking at the headquarters of the organisation League
of Friends of the Blind (LOFOB) in Grassy Park, Cape Town.
The manifesto - titled "Together for Change, Together for Jobs" - would also
be available at all provincial offices of the SA National Council of the
Blind, at the Grahamstown Library for the Blind, at LOFOB, and at the
disability desks of universities around the country.
"We are doing this at substantial cost to the DA, but we believe it is
necessary so that visually impaired South Africans can engage in the
political process fully."
Zille said decision-makers and politicians had been "slow off the mark" in
understanding that, for the visually impaired, Braille was literacy.
"It is not enough to say the right thing. It is essential to follow through
with concrete action steps," she said.
According to the SA National Council for the Blind, there are about one
million blind and partially-sighted people in South Africa. - Sapa
Source URL:
http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/da-launches-braille-manifesto-1.1666017#.
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