[Blindtlk] Please help if you can

Thu Jan 21 21:46:56 UTC 2016

The bad access on amazon is every bit as bad as it is for sighted people 
and amazon does this deliberately.  http://www.amazon.com/access/ is no 
better.  However a Nephew of mine gave me a tip which will probably 
prove useful for any would-be amazon users.  Never on any account use 
the search on amazon.com to search for anything since the search is 
total garbage.  Instead, use google.com to search and put 
site:amazon.com in as one of your search terms.  The reason for this is 
quite simple.  If you use google in this way, google's search of amazon 
will find far more items for you than you or any sighted person could 
find on amazon.com using amazon's search.  The other tip I got was once 
you get an account created, use the iPhone or Android amazon app to 
purchase what you want and you don't get that junk pile amazon interface 
to handle.  Hope this helps someone.  Now all I have to do is figure out 
how to create my account.

On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Julie J. via blindtlk wrote:

> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:19:32
> From: Julie J. via blindtlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> To: gwunder at earthlink.net, Blind Talk Mailing List <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
> Cc: Julie J. <julielj at neb.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Please help if you can
> 
> I got a 404 page not found.  Not sure what to try next.
>
> Julie
> Courage to Dare: A Blind Woman's Quest to Train her Own Guide Dog is now 
> available! Get the book here:
> http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00QXZSMOC
> -----Original Message----- From: Gary Wunder via blindtlk
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 12:21 PM
> To: Warn,Grace
> Cc: Gary Wunder
> Subject: [Blindtlk] Please help if you can
>
> Dear family, friends, and colleagues:
>
>
>
> I don't usually write to everyone in my address book, but I have an urgent
> issue I would like you to think about supporting. Today, true access to
> society means access to the internet, and although many of us think that the
> Americans With Disabilities Act has leveled the playing field for blind
> people, it was passed before the Internet was a factor. Although it speaks
> clearly to public access, it is mostly talking about physical structures.
> There is no question that a store has to let blind people in to shop. There
> is no question that a restaurant must allow someone with a cane or a guide
> dog into their establishment and must serve them. But the question that must
> be resolved is whether public places means physical locations or any
> location where the public is invited and encouraged to spend money. I
> contend that the internet is just such a place and that Amazon's online
> presence is no different from Barnes & Noble's store.
>
>
>
> Although the courts have issued conflicting opinions on this, most rulings
> have said that the Americans With Disabilities Act would most certainly have
> included the internet had it been passed only three years later. The Justice
> Department agrees, and so does the Congress. The problem is that the Justice
> Department has not implemented the amendments to the Americans With
> Disabilities Act that was passed by the Congress by issuing regulations
> necessary for its enforcement. The Obama administration now says that it
> plans to wait until 2018 to issue such regulations. Of course, there will be
> no Obama administration in 2018, and every delay makes it easier for the
> next president to authorize another delay.
>
>
>
> If you believe that it is important for me to be able to check in at an
> airport and to check out at a grocery store given that these both are
> requiring interaction with electronic devices, please look at the petition
> that I am including here, and if you feel as I do, please sign it. Some
> barriers that I face simply cannot be removed. I cannot enjoy seeing the
> stars in the sky or appreciate the beautiful colors that emerge in spring,
> but with technology that we have readily available today, there is no reason
> that I can't use a computer to read about these. The technological barriers
> I face are not so much due to blindness as they are the unwillingness of
> people to realize that there should be nonvisual ways of accessing much of
> what the world has to offer. Thank you for helping me if you feel as I do.
> Here is the link:
>
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/direct-us-department-justice-promp
> tly-release-ada-internet-regulations
>
>
>
>
>
> Gary Wunder, President
>
> National Federation of the Blind of Missouri
>
>
>
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