[Ohio-talk] FW: Put eBooks in the Hands of all Disabled People!

[Barbara Pierce]

This is important for us all to do. I have to confess that I had to get a
bit of help to do it, but if you remember that you have to write your first
name in one slot and your last name in the next, you should be all right. If
the sign button will not work for you, it is because something is not right
in the fields that you must fill in to get it to work. We are trying to get
10,000 signatures, and I was 804, so we have a way to go. If you want to be
able to buy books at Amazon and be able to read them independently, or you
think the rest of us should have that right, please sing the petition and
get your friends to do so as well.

Barbara 

-----Original Message-----
From: John Pare [mailto:jpare at nfb.org] 
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 5:09 PM
To: bpierce at nfb.org
Subject: Put eBooks in the Hands of all Disabled People!


Please Read! Then Act!

The NFB is engaged in a campaign to obtain access for the blind and others
with print disabilities to e-books available for Amazon's new Kindle 2
e-book reader. The new reader, which Amazon is working to make fully
accessible to the blind, has the ability to use text-to-speech to read these
e-books aloud; but under pressure from the Authors Guild, Amazon has
announced that authors and publishers will be allowed to disable the
text-to-speech function. The National Federation of the Blind has joined
with over twenty other organizations to create the Reading Rights Coalition,
which has set up an on-line petition to urge the Authors Guild and Amazon to
reverse course. Please read and sign the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read
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Please note: If you are using screen access technology, the first three
fields on the form to sign the petition may not be announced. They are, in
order: (1) a drop-down menu from which to select your prefix (Mr., Mrs.,
etc.); (2) an edit field for your first name, and (3) an edit field for your
last name. The rest of the fields should announce themselves as you tab to
them. If you still have trouble filling out the form, please send the
following information to readingrights at nfb.org
<mailto:readingrights at nfb.org>  and we will be happy to sign on your behalf.
You will need to send us your name, address, e-mail address, and any
personal comments you would like to make about this issue. Thank you so much
for your participation in this critically important effort.
 


Sincerely:
 
John G. Pare, Jr.


Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives

NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND


P.S. Once you have signed the petition, please be sure to forward the link
to all of the contacts in your address book that you believe will support us
in this cause. 
 
 

 
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