[Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

[Karen Zakhnini]

I don't think you ned to download the application, but I am not entirely sure.  I just was sent to the petition site and never clikced "allow" like you need to for the other facebook apps.  This is a different site that is linked to facebook--not actually a facebook application.  You do need to fill in yur name (which you can choose not to display) and your e-mail and your physical address (of which only your state is displayed).  
 
> From: lmartinez217 at gmail.com
> To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
> Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 18:49:31 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition
> 
> Do we really need to download an application in order to sign the petition? 
> I'm getting a request on faceBook to download an application and I'm a 
> little weary of doing so because I suspected something more simple and less 
> time consuming.
> 
> LM
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Karen Zakhnini" <kaycee510 at hotmail.com>
> To: <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 5:04 PM
> Subject: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition
> 
> 
> 
> 
> The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, 
> will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from 
> e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in 
> New York City at 31 East 32nd Street on April 7, 2009, from noon to 2:00 
> p.m. The coalition includes the blind, people with dyslexia, people with 
> learning or processing issues, seniors losing vision, people with spinal 
> cord injuries, people recovering from strokes, and many others for whom the 
> addition of text-to-speech on the Kindle 2 promised for the first time easy, 
> mainstream access to over 245,000 books.
> 
> 
> 
> When Amazon released the Kindle 2 electronic book reader on February 9, 
> 2009, the company announced that the device would be able to read e-books 
> aloud using text-to-speech technology. Under pressure from the Authors 
> Guild, Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the 
> ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their 
> e-books available for the Kindle 2.
> 
> 
> 
> While the Kindle 2 is not currently accessible to blind users, Amazon 
> recently announced on its Kindle 2 blog that it is currently at work on 
> making the device’s navigational features accessible to the blind.
> 
> Please sign the online petition and spread the word about the discrimination 
> of the Author's Guild: 
> http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=75465378342&h=8sB2E&u=G6Bkw&ref=nf
> 
> 
> 
> The coalition includes: American Association of People with Disabilities, 
> American Council of the Blind, American Foundation for the Blind, 
> Association on Higher Education and Disability, Bazelon Center for Mental 
> Health Law, Burton Blatt Institute, Digital Accessible Information System 
> (DAISY) Consortium, Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF), 
> IDEAL Group, Inc., International Center for Disability Resources on the 
> Internet, International Dyslexia Association, International Dyslexia 
> Association––New York Branch, Knowledge Ecology International, Learning 
> Disabilities Association of America, National Center for Learning 
> Disabilities, National Disability Rights Network, National Federation of the 
> Blind, NISH, and the National Spinal Cord Injury Association. In addition to 
> the April 7 New York City protest, the coalition will participate in the Los 
> Angeles Times Festival of Books on April 25-26.
> 
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