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

[David Andrews]

I use the Twitter log in and have not seen an increase in spam.

Dave

At 05:10 PM 12/10/2010, you wrote:
>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.