Dear Friend Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (SOCOG - the main body responsible for organising the Sydney Olympics) and its Olympics web site designer, IBM, are exploiting disabled people for PR purposes while denying blind people fair access to Olympic results on the site. Visually impaired people are being shut out from the Olympic party, while IBM claims to be powerless to make the site accessible. For a relatively small cost, IBM could solve the problem and make the site useable by people with visual impairment. IBM have the resources and the technology to allow everyone with internet access to share in Sydney's games. They are refusing to do so. You can send a message to IBM's senior management by visiting The Greens website http://www.nsw.greens.org.au/parl/lee/ibmpetition.html and filling in the petition. We urge you to do so today: tell IBM that no one should be left out in the cold. Please pass this message on to your friends: we need to send a strong message to IBM. thanks Lee Rhiannon MLC and Gisele Mesnage The Greens -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
