[Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

Sat Apr 4 15:02:06 UTC 2009

So, my other inquiry is, do you need to be a member of FaceBook in order to 
sign this petition?

I had to press a "continue" button in order to be taken to the actual 
petition site. I see that only 158 people have signed it. If you have to be 
a FaceBook member to sign, we're excluding a lot of folks. Our goal is ten 
thousand, and we won't reach that goal jus through FaceBook.

Just some thoughts.

LM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Zakhnini" <kaycee510 at hotmail.com>
To: <sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 5:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

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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