BVA Executive Director Donald D. Overton, Jr. contributed to a USA Today article published October 19 entitled “Blind to Problems: VA’s new medical record system is shutting out visually impaired patients.”

The article, written by Darius Tahir of Kaiser Health News, details the potential difficulties that more than a million veterans may encounter as they attempt to use VA’s new digital health record system, developed by Oracle Cerner. Two of the more prevalent issues are that screens do not allow users to zoom in on the text and that screen-reader software translating text to speech isn’t compatible. Because of the problems, the developing VA medical record system has been delayed until next June.

Click here to read Don’s quotes and the full text of the article.

A second article, this one published by the Federal News Network (FNN), does not mention BVA by name but references the Association’s ongoing congressional advocacy efforts with partnering organizations on the issue of VA digital accessibility, especially the Senate Committee on Aging. To access the FNN piece, click here.