. >> clerk: council member orkid sassouni will participate via the bridge line. council member helen smolinski. >> present. >> clerk: and council member kate williams is absent. >> thank you very much. let's move to action item, this is number two. reading an approval of the agenda by staff. >> clerk: item one, welcome, introduction and roll call. item two, action item, reading

council member orkid sassouni. >> council member sassouni: i'd like to attend, wonderful resource, i'm wondering if you have asl interpreters? you can contact the public library for requests. saying that's an option for accommodations. it's a comment rather, not a question. >> co-chair senhaux: council member blacksten? >> co-chair blacksten: thank you for your presentation. i'm always wanting to attend various events because it's an opportunity to meet people. just two of them caught my -- well, by the way, i have to commend the lighthouse, they are out there talking about persons of disabilities who are blind and hard-of-hearing and deaf, that need adaptive technology and that's great, but now you mentioned something about microsoft being there. if i heard you right, you said showing people how to use mouses and various things. we who are blind don't use mouse technology, so would microsoft be ready and able to meet with some of us who are disabled that would want to see their technology? >> i believe the answer to that would be yes. i can't speak for mike soft right now, but let me

. >> co-chair senhaux: council member orkid sassouni? [inaudible] >> thank you, that's a great idea. advocacy and referral center -- referral agency, got you, thank you. >> co-chair senhaux: thank you council member orkid sassouni. co-chair, blacksten? >> co-chair blacksten: i have to second what my colleague kate williams said, you've really done a tremendous amount of work in a year's time. i'm very pleased and this is impressive. so, in my particular case, i am blind and hard-of-hearing, so in addition to not being able to see, i have to use hearing aids. i use text to speech technology which is called jaws. you may be familiar with that particular software program since you work -- i mean you've worked with the lighthouse. and i also use braille technology. electronic braille device. i'd like to be able to collaborate with you going forward because with my situation in the insurance field, i'm going to have to make presentations using screen share. and that's a big challenge, especially with text to speech. in other words, that's whe

. >> clerk: council member orkid sassouni will participate via the bridge line. council member helen smolinski. >> present. >> clerk: and council member kate williams is absent. >> thank you very much. let's move to action item, this is number two. reading an approval of the agenda by staff. >> clerk: item one, welcome, introduction and roll call. item two, action item, reading the approval of the agenda. item three, public comment. items not on today's agenda but within the jurisdiction of the m.d.c. each speaker is limited to three minutes. please approach the microphone or give your comment card to the m.d.c. staff. item four, co-chair report. item 5, information item, report from the mayor's office on disability. please note that the director's report can be found in the what's new section of the m.o.d. website at sfgov.org/sfmdc/whatsnew. item 6, information item. co-chair elections. in accordance with the mayor's disable council by-laws article 3, section 1, there shall be two co-chairs to serve as officers of the council and the councilship elect these off

orkid. >> council member sassouni: i know there are some neighborhoods that try to add those signs, you know i don't know if you've seen the deaf child at play signs and usually that comes up because there is a disabled person or deaf child in the area and it's like a warning sign. i was a survivor of a car accident as a young deaf girl and the only problem is identification process. how do we make drivers not only slow but pay attention to what is around them on the road? because every time i go to a corner i know as a pedestrian that i have to wait until i get a visual confirmation that the driver sees me, but if i don't have someone make that eye contact, i'm afraid i'll be hit. if they don't know i'm in the area, it can lead to an issue. i think we should consider educating drivers to make eye contact with people like me who can't hear them. >> i think that's a great comment and something that megan will take away as part of the education component of vision zero. it's also important for us at the mta to think about. visibility at intersections and perhaps relates back to the traffic cir