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Sarah Alawami marrie12 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 2 18:08:54 UTC 2010



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Elliott Barnes <elliottabarnes at googlemail.com>
> Date: March 1, 2010 10:37:21 PM PST
> To: Access e-mail forum <access at accessusers.com>
> Cc: talks at talksusers.com, The Accessible Phones Discussion List <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>, talks-uk at freelists.org
> Subject: Re: [access] WFA User Protest
> Reply-To: The Accessible Phones Discussion List <blindphones at mosenexplosion.com>
> 
> If JAWS, Window-Eyes, and/or Hal and Supernova were abandoned and a
> petition was created, would you sign that? Or would you use the same
> logic that you're using now, and just say hey! I bet other companies
> are working on an alternative?
> What if, however, other companies were not working on other
> alternatives, and a new operating system was created, and that
> particular screenreader didn't work properly because it had been
> abandond?
> Some of you really make me wonder about this community, and how much
> people care about screen readers and navigational assistants.
> On 01/03/2010, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav <talks at talknav.com> wrote:
>> A quick note to all of you who have, and those who as of yet have not signed
>> the WFA user protest site.
>> 
>> Before I start my message the link right here and now is
>> www.talknav.com/protest
>> 
>> Firstly, a note to all of you who have signed, thank you, but I have to at
>> this stage say that it is way too few who have made this effort. We are
>> nearing 700, yet for Vodafone to take this seriously we need thousands.
>> 
>> To date we've not even got close to even the number of users of the
>> application signing, let alone additional support.
>> 
>> Can I especially ask those of you who either work with or for the
>> organizations that supposedly represent us as blind folk, yes you lot, those
>> of you at the RNIB, CNIB, AFB, NFB, etc, etc, you lot really have made me
>> rather upset and irritated.
>> 
>> To date I've posted two messages via each of your web-sites informing you
>> all of our protest, has any one of you got back to me to ask for more
>> detail, have you mass mailed your members, have you lobbied in our favour,
>> have you, no sir. Is this an outrage, is this a complete lack of competence
>> when it comes to supporting those who you claim to represent? This
>> individual thinks so. So if you represent, or have a contact at your local
>> blind organization please forward this message, we, or certainly I, am very,
>> very disappointed in you all.
>> 
>> As for those private individuals who have not yet signed, even if you do not
>> own Access or a Symbian phone, your name should be on this list, the list
>> says something about who we are and what we stand for as blind folks, it
>> says that we will not lay down and be ignored whilst our tools to freedom
>> and mobility are stolen from us. It says we have a voice and we are prepared
>> to use it when necessary.
>> 
>> This protest is about more than just Wayfinder Access, it is a symbol, now
>> please, I urge you all, we need this link spreading, we need it sharing,
>> Face Book pages, Twitter, those of you who produce pod casts, mailing lists
>> etc, etc, if you believe in your freedom to mobility and your rights to
>> accessible products then make your mark.
>> 
>> More than this, those you know need to say that they too are in support of
>> our cause, so get your address book and forward this link, personalize it
>> with a few lines of message, get the word out there.
>> 
>> The protest site has a league table on it at the bottom of the public
>> signatures page, it's dynamic and countries move about on the list. To date
>> we've only had a tiny portion of blind people around the world sign up.
>> Spread the word folks.
>> 
>> www.talknav.com/protest
>> 
>> This issue rests squarely in your hands, make a difference today...
>> 
>> Regards.
>> 
>> Neil Barnfather.
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Elliott.
> 
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