[stylist] Voting for Pepsi- For our Youth SLAM Grant

Thu Aug 19 16:56:47 UTC 2010

Hello Donna and everyone,

    For us this voting process has been more trouble than it's worth. Our 
cell phones do not have a screen reader, we don't do social networks, and we 
refuse to deal with captchas for any part of the process. While we would 
like to see the Youth SLAM funded by Pepsi we don't believe it's worth 
compromising our positions on Web accessibility and tossing politics aside 
for $250,000.00. We have demonstrated to ourselves that we're capable of 
raising many times that amount without shutting anyone out of the process 
particularly those with hearing impairments. Just thought I would weigh in 
on the subject.

Peter Donahue

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Hill" <penatwork at epix.net>
To: "Writer's Division Mailing List" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 10:57 AM
Subject: Re: [stylist] Voting for Pepsi- For our Youth SLAM Grant

Robert,
I don't text, so I was happy to see these other options. I don't know if
my votes took or not, however. The log in with Facebook had a curious
blurb suggesting that if I did use it, I would be agreeing that I had
read the terms of the contest. I linked to it and it was quite long, and
appeared to be for people who want a grant. I didn't have time to read
the whole thing, but I wonder if you are giving them permission to
advertise on your Facebook page?  Anyway, I chose the option to log in
with Pepsi, Since I didn't have a password I left that radio button
checked, but didn't receive a standard form for establishing a new
password -- you know, the kind where you enter it twice.  BTW, I made
the mistake of refusing a third-party tracking cookie using IE8 and
although I managed to get the audio captcha correct -- it was one of the
old garbled ones -- I still couldn't complete the process. I ended up
using Firefox, but still didn't get a chance to establish a password
with Pepsi, so who knows what happened to my vote.

I wonder if others are having similar problems, or do you all have cell
phones?
Donna

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On 8/19/2010 10:32 AM, Robert Leslie Newman wrote:
> Dear STYLIST Friends and Division Members
>
> I have been voting each day for our shot at getting the $250,000.00 grant
> from Pepsi and there is  less than two weeks remaining in the voting; goes
> to the end of August. This would be used to fund our 2011 NFB Youth Slam .
> There are three ways to log a vote:
>
> First-  Text Message: Simply put the number 101913 into the body of a 
> text,
> and send that text to 73774. That's all you have to do each day to vote 
> via
> text. *Standard text-messaging rates  apply.
>
> Second- Go to<http://www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam>
> www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam, click the link to vote, and then
> choose the log in using Facebook option. Once you're successfully logged 
> in,
> click the vote button on our page again and the vote link will disappear 
> and
> you'll have logged your vote !
>
> Third- Go to<http://www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam>
> www.refresheverything.com/nfbyouthslam, click the link to vote, and then
> choose the sign in directly with Pepsi option. This option is the least
> desirable option, but with practice still can be done in less than a 
> minute
> each day. An audio CAPTCHA is necessary for completing this option, but 
> only
> this option requires the CAPTCHA. If you do not wish to solve a CAPTCHA 
> each
> time to vote (and do not have the ability to text), please use the 
> Facebook
> option, even if you simply create a Facebook account to vote for this 
> month
> and deactivate it once we have won.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
> President NFB Writers' division
> Writers' Division Website-
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org
> Personal Website-
> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
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