Hello All, I'm allowing this post from a member who wrote me privately, as I feel that this is of enough importance / benefit to the blind / VI community that we all might like to have a look and possibly add your voices.
If anyone has issues with this posting, then please, by all means, feel free to write me at: [email protected] Have a terrific weekend and make it one to remember! Smiles, Cara :) Begin forwarded message: From: "Danielsen, Chris" <[email protected]> (by way of David Andrews <[email protected]>) Date: April 3, 2009 10:55:44 PM ADT To: [email protected] Subject: [nfbcs] Sign the petition to allow everyone access to e-books Reply-To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List <[email protected]> Dear Fellow Federationists: As many of you know, we are engaged in a campaign to obtain access for the blind and others with print disabilities to e-books available for Amazon's new Kindle 2 e-book reader. The new reader, which Amazon is working to make fully accessible to the blind, has the ability to use text-to-speech to read these e-books aloud; but under pressure from the Authors Guild, Amazon has announced that authors and publishers will be allowed to disable the text-to-speech function. The National Federation of the blind has joined with over twenty other organizations to create the reading Rights Coalition, which has set up an on-line petition to urge the Authors Guild and Amazon to reverse course. Please read and sign the petition here: <http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read >http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read Please note: If you are using screen access technology, the first three fields on the form to sign the petition may not be announced. They are, in order: (1) a drop-down menu from which to select your prefix (Mr., Mrs., etc.); (2) an edit field for your first name, and (3) an edit field for your last name. the rest of the fields should announce themselves as you tab to them. If you still have trouble filling out the form, please send the following information to <mailto:[email protected] >[email protected] and we will be happy to sign on your behalf. You will need to send us your name, address, e-mail address, and any personal comments you would like to make about this issue. Thank you so much for your participation in this critically important effort. Sincerely: Chris Danielsen Director of Public Relations National Federation of the Blind P.S. Once you have signed the petition, please be sure to forward the link to all of the contacts in your address book that you believe will support us in this cause. _______________________________________________ nfbcs mailing list [email protected] http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbcs_nfbnet.org To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for nfbcs: http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbcs_nfbnet.org/everett%40zufelt.ca --- Follow me on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ModelCara View my Online Portfolio at: http://www.onemodelplace.com/CaraQuinn --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
