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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-04-12 | 2 | ITEM 2-B COMMISSION ON DISABILITY ISSUES MEETING MINUTES OF Wednesday, April 12, 2017 6:30 p.m. Beth Kenny: Great. The minutes have been approved. Just a side note on the minutes, we have been having trouble hearing everybody in the minutes and as you know we are sending it to a company, so if everybody can really make sure they try and speak into the microphone, that would be great. Kerry Parker: Yes. Even a sign on this table over here it says, "Speak directly into the mic." And we were charged extra money last time for the minutes to be transcribed for this, if we could just take care to speak into the mic that would help. This one is super sensitive, yours are not. 3. ORAL COMMUNICATION Beth Kenny: Oral communications, non-agenda items, public comment section. Do we have anyone? No? Kerry Parker: We do not have any speaker slips. 4. NEW BUSINESS 4-A Presentation of Services Available at Center for Independent Living (CIL) in Alameda (Stuart S. James, Executive Director, CIL) Beth Kenny: Great. Moving on to new business. We have a presentation of services available at the Center for Independent Living by Stuart James. Beth Kenny: Welcome Stuart. Thank you for being here. Stuart James: I tend to wander. I think that I have kinetic energy. [laughter] Stuart James: Well first of all thank you for having me. I'm the Executive Director at the Center for Independent Living that a lot of people know as the Center for Independent Living, Berkeley. However. Can you hear me? Beth Kenny: Yes. Stuart James: We have just opened up a new office here in Alameda. It is our third office. We have one in Oakland as well. The office here is pretty exciting. It's 6,900 square feet, it's on Mariner Square Loop. You come to our assistive technology lab which has three separate parts to it. One part is for people with vision impairments, so we will walk consumers through how to use accessibility features that exist within phones and computers already. Applications and software we can add to the computer to help read screen read. We also have other devices that will screen read if you don't want to hook up to a computer or that will scan and read hard materials. And we show people how to use all of that stuff. Stuart James: The second part of it is we actually have a living room that is completely controlled by an Amazon Echo. So you can turn the heat on, turn the heat down, unlock the doors, turn the lights 05/24/17 Page 2 of 29 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-04-12.pdf |