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

Thu Aug 19 17:56:58 UTC 2010

Hi Peter,
I don't mind the Captcha so much because Webvisum used with Firefox 
allows the hearing impaired blind people to solve them and it works 
rather well most of the time, but what a headache trying to figure out 
whether it's safe to sign in with Facebook!
Donna

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On 8/19/2010 12:56 PM, Peter Donahue wrote:
> 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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