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

[Cindy Conley]

Barbara,
Don't feel bad - It took me a couple minutes to figure this out. And I 
feel like I'm pretty computer literate.
Cindy Conley
cconley at fuse.net

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will 
annoy enough people to make it worth the effort."
Herm Albright
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Pierce" <bbpierce at pobox.com>
To: "'NFB of Ohio Announcement and Discussion List'" 
<ohio-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 9:15 AM
Subject: [Ohio-talk] FW: Put eBooks in the Hands of all Disabled 
People!


> 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
> <http://www.marchforindependence.org/site/R?i=XFDnuiMsUrKibcy3bdJscg..>
>
> 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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