[Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

Tue Apr 7 09:45:57 UTC 2009

And no you do not have to be a facebook member to sign.  I believe we are well over 2000 at this point.  Let's get everyone to sign!!!  And James, thanks for posting the direct link!

> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2009 02:14:00 -0400
> From: jfetter at nd.edu
> To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition
> 
> 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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