[Electronics-talk] Fwd: Help Qwitter, improve accessibility!

[dreicer, zachary]

I will vote, and I love twitter and qwitter!

 ----- Original Message -----
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com
To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:34:42 -0600
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Fwd: Help Qwitter, improve 
accessibility!

I am forwarding the message below and ask everyone to help out.  
I
use Qwitter daily, and love it.  It is an innovative piece of
software that allows blind persons to use Twitter, and other
services, on the basis of quality.  Let's help reward some 
deserving
young blind programmers.

David Andrews


From: Q <q at qwitter-client.net
To: dandrews at visi.com
Subject: Help Qwitter, improve accessibility!



Our world is rapidly changing.  Technology is being integrated 
with
our daily lives as never before, and as blind individuals we know
better than most people the importance of having real access to 
this
technology.
I am a developer of a piece of accessible technology which you 
may
currently use, The Qwitter client, the most powerful and flexible
Twitter client for the blind.  Qwitter, as a new breed of
application known as an accessibility layer, sits between you and 
a
remote web site's API, providing innovative access to modern web 
2.0
web sites such as Twitter and soon Facebook from anywhere on your
system at any time.
      Why am I bugging you now?
About two months ago, Qwitter was entered into a contest being 
run
by a relatively-large web site devoted to social networking known 
as
Mashable.  This is a prominent web site for the sighted, covering
many developments in the social networking space.  With the help 
of
hundreds of blind Qwitter users, we have moved on to the final 
round
of voting, surpassing literally thousands of other applications.
You may be wondering why some relatively trivial social 
networking
application or contest is at all relevant to you.  In this case, 
it
is my strong belief that what we as blind computer users need is
exposure to sighted developers to show them that we represent a
large, powerful market.  What better way to do this than by 
spanking
them all in a contest?
Seriously, though, I believe that with your help, we can 
demonstrate
the efficacy of creating accessible software.  Let us proudly
represent the size and power of the blind community and get the
message out there that we're more than ready for equal access to
these, and many other important technologies.
The process to vote only takes a second if you have either 
Twitter
or Facebook.  All you need to do is click on the following 
address:
http://mashable.com/awards/votes?c=28&v=191
At the bottom of the first list of links you'll find two 
graphical
links, one which reads Twitter Login2, and one that reads 
Facebook
login.  Depending on which service you use, click the appropriate
link, sign in with your credentials, and allow the service to use
your account with the allow button.
     Once you have logged in, you will go back to the original 
page,
 but magically, two combo boxes will appear.  Navigate to these 
and
 verify that the top one is set to Best use of API and the second 
to
 Qwitter client (they should be by default.)  Then, just hit the 
vote button.
You are allowed to vote once a day, and I ask that you please
do.  There are only seven days left, and with your help and
perseverance we can win this contest and show a large amount of
sighted developers that accessibility is more than worthwhile!
Thank you very much for your time and at tension,
      Christopher Toth
      @Mongoose_q on Twitter.


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