[Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

Tue Apr 7 06:14:00 UTC 2009

The direct link to the petition site also works.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read
Hope this helps.
James

On 4/4/2009 11:02 AM, Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC wrote:
> 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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