[Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

Tue Apr 7 23:35:06 UTC 2009

I tried signing it but could not get the Submit button to click for me.

Joe Orozco

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the
crowd."--Max Lucado 

-----Original Message-----
From: sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org 
[mailto:sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Cervenka, 
Stacy (Brownback)
Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2009 8:51 AM
To: sportsandrec at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

LM,
I'm not sure what petition you're looking at, but the main 
petition has nothing. to do with Facebook and, as of yesterday, 
afternoon, has almost 2,000 signatures. I think you're looking 
at the Facebook cause, not the petition, which can be accessed 
on it's own and has nothing to do with Facebook. Here is the link.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read.  

Hope this helps,
Stacy

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From: sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org <sportsandrec-bounces at nfbnet.org>
To: Sports and Recreation for the Blind Discussion List 
<sportsandrec at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sat Apr 04 11:02:06 2009
Subject: Re: [Sportsandrec] Reading Rights Coalition

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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