[Ohio-talk] Better information about the petition

[Barbara Pierce]

Somehow I missed this message Saturday. If you have not braved the Internet
to sign the petition, you can still do it. And, if you have trouble, this
gives you a way to have someone do it for you. We have over a thousand
signers, and that is the flash point where such organizations begin taking
such petitions seriously. I think it would be important to crank the number
up higher.

Barbara


Dear Fellow Federationists:

As many of you know, we are 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.thepetitionsite
.com/1/We-Want-To-Read

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
<mailto:readingrights at nfb.org>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:

Chris Danielsen
Director of Public Relations
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.