[jawsscripts] Re: Fwd: [nfbcs] Sign the petition to allow everyone access to e-books
- From: "Donald Marang" <donald.marang@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 12:40:50 -0400
I just signed the petition. While I was at the site, I used Everett's handy
script to open the page in Firefox with Control + Shift + f. I then
assigned labels to the First Name and Last Name fields with Webvisum's
"Label Form" feature. Due to Webvisum's community sharing design, anyone
going to this page with Firefox and Webvisum should hear the labels spoken
properly. I was unable to label the Salutation combo box, but it is already
labeled "Name" and is optional.
I hope this helps people signing in the future.
Don Marang
----- Original Message -----
From: "E.J. Zufelt" <lists@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 03, 2009 11:21 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Fwd: [nfbcs] Sign the petition to allow everyone
access to e-books
> This * may * help. I didn't have this when I first posted.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: "Danielsen, Chris" <CDanielsen@xxxxxxx> (by way of David
>> Andrews <dandrews@xxxxxxxx>)
>> Date: April 3, 2009 10:55:44 PM ADT
>> To: david.andrews@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [nfbcs] Sign the petition to allow everyone access to e-books
>> Reply-To: NFBnet NFBCS Mailing List <nfbcs@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> 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:readingrights@xxxxxxx
>> >readingrights@xxxxxxx 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.
>>
>>
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