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

[Brett Boyer]

Is this thing going to flood my fb and my friends with spam? The rules sound 
a little scary
bb
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dreicer, zachary" <z.dreicer at emissives.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 08, 2010 9:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Fwd: Help Qwitter, improve accessibility!


>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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