[Nfbf-l] Fw: [fcb-l] Fw: [leadership] Petitions in Support of Treaty to AllowGreater Access to Books by People Who Have Print ReadingDisabilities--and inaccessible captchas!

[Sherri]

Just passing this along. Apparently, there are several petitions.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Edwards" <edwpaul at bellsouth.net>
To: <fcb-l at acb.org>
Sent: Monday, May 27, 2013 11:18 AM
Subject: [fcb-l] Fw: [leadership] Petitions in Support of Treaty to 
AllowGreater Access to Books by People Who Have Print 
ReadingDisabilities--and inaccessible captchas!


Please sign this petition at our ACB web site or at the web page of the NFB.
It is crucial that we reach the 100,000 if we can.

Paul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Kim.Charlson at Perkins.org>
To: <gosarah at yahoo.com>; <leadership at acb.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [leadership] Petitions in Support of Treaty to Allow Greater
Access to Books by People Who Have Print Reading Disabilities--and
inaccessible captchas!


> Sarah and Others,
>
> I tried the We the People petition on the White House website. I too tried
> the awful audio captcha twice, not successfully. Then I got an email
> message that said you only have one more step and click on the link below
> or copy it into your browser and you will be able to sign the petition. It
> worked.
>
> ACB has sent comments to the webmaster about the awful captcha and we will
> keep this on the radar to get it made do-able and reasonable.
>
> Thanks for sharing this option. Both ACB and NFB opted to put petitions on
> our own websites because of the accessibility concerns.
>
> Thanks for signing the petitions.
>
> Kim
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: leadership-bounces at acb.org [mailto:leadership-bounces at acb.org] On
> Behalf Of Sarah Presley
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2013 10:19 AM
> To: leadership at acb.org
> Subject: [leadership] Petitions in Support of Treaty to Allow Greater
> Access to Books by People Who Have Print Reading Disabilities--and
> inaccessible captchas!
>
>
> I just wanted to point out that there is another petition for this on the
> White House web site:
>
> https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/side-blind-over-obstructionist-companies-secure-treaty-blind-makes-books-accessible-globally/ZJtgcVph
>
> However, I know at least one reason why ACB and NFB felt the need to
> create their own petitions: In order to sign the petition on the White
> House site, one must create an account on the site, and in order to do
> that, one must get past an impossible audio captcha challenge. The last
> time I tried to send comments to the web site about this, I found that one
> had to get past the impossible audio challenge even to submit the comment
> form.
>
> I do think that it is ironic that we can't even sign petitions on the
> White House web site because of accessibility issues. If we want to make a
> point about bad captchas, this might be a good place to do it.
>
> Sarah
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