<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>For your information.<br><br><br>Sent from the iPhone of Jordy D. Stringer.<div><span style="font-size: 13pt;">Inform, encourage, empower!</span></div></div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "Danielsen, Chris via NFBNet-Members-List" <<a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 7, 2016 at 11:53:53 AM EDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org">nfbnet-members-list@nfbnet.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[Nfbnet-members-list] <a href="http://PresidentialOpenQuestions.com">PresidentialOpenQuestions.com</a> - Questions for Upcoming Presidential Debates</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> "Danielsen, Chris" <<a href="mailto:CDanielsen@nfb.org">CDanielsen@nfb.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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Dear Fellow Federationists:<br>
A website called <a href="http://PresidentialOpenQuestions.com">PresidentialOpenQuestions.com</a> is accepting ideas for
questions to be asked of the two major party presidential
candidates in the upcoming televised debates. Users of the site can
also vote on submitted questions that they would like for the candidates
to be asked. CNN and ABC, the networks hosting the final two presidential
debates, have agreed to consider the top thirty questions voted upon by
the public for inclusion in the debates. One of the questions being
heavily promoted relates specifically to disability rights and reads as
follows: How would you value disability rights in your presidency? It is
currently among the top sixty questions, out of some ten thousand
submitted.<br>
While the wording of this question is broad, it is better than no
question related to people with disabilities at all. We should engage in
every effort we can to get the candidates to talk about how blind people
and others with disabilities will be enabled to live the lives we want
under their administrations. Some members have therefore circulated the
question and website address to various lists, and it was promoted
yesterday on our official NFB social media channels.<br>
That said, we have since learned that members who have attempted to vote
have experienced usability and accessibility issues with the site, and
its behavior is inconsistent. While some of us have voted for the
question successfully with little difficulty, others have been unable to
do so. We have contacted the owners of the site to urge them to fix these
issues and to point out that the votes of tens of thousands of blind
people are being lost while they remain unresolved. However, since some
of us have been able to complete the process, and if that fact encourages
you to try voting for the question, you might have the best experience by
following these steps:<br>
1. Click the Register link near the top of the page and then, on the next
screen, create your account.<br>
2. As part of creating your account, you will have to check a box that
says “I'm not a robot." When you check that box, you may or
may not be asked to solve one or more captchas. If you are asked to solve
captchas, there will be an opportunity for you to click a button that
says "Get an audio challenge," or you may receive a captcha
that simply asks you a question to which you must check the correct
answer.<br>
3. Once you have successfully registered, go to the "disability
question" and vote. Here's the direct link:<br>
<a href="https://presidentialopenquestions.com/questions/7313/vote/">
https://presidentialopenquestions.com/questions/7313/vote/</a> <br>
Note that the vote button will be above the text of the question, not
below or after it.<br>
4. When you have voted successfully, the word "voted" will
appear above the question's text, along with the total number of votes
that the question has received; this is how you will know your vote has
been counted.<br>
I hope that many of you are able to vote successfully, and again we have
let the site owners know that they can and should make it much easier for
blind users to vote on their site.<br>
Warmly,<br>
Chris Danielsen<br>
Director of Public Relations<br>
National Federation of the Blind<br>
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