Andrea Travis

October 25, 2002

To whom it may concern:

Hello! Greetings from Idaho. I am writing in regards to the hearing by the Access Board on October 8-9, 2002 in Portland, Oregon. I support the position of the National Federation of the Blind as against the audible traffic signals.

I am vice president of the Idaho Association of Blind Students, a National Federation of the Blind scholarship winer, and a blind person since birth. I find the signals annoying, degrading, and putely unnecessary. I know many other successful blind travelers, as well as travel instuctures. Some of them even get around better than people with 20/20 vision.

Thank you for your time and I hope you will take all my comments into consideration. Thank you!

Sincerely,

Andrea Travis