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

[dreicer, zachary]

nope.  PS: we're neighbors! I live in nm!

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:10:32 -0700
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Fwd: Help Qwitter, improve 
accessibility!

Is this thing going to flood my fb and my friends with spam? The 
rules sound
a little scary
bb
Brett Boyer
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From: "dreicer, zachary" <z.dreicer at emissives.com
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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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