[Missouri-l] Fwd: [coataccess] Please sign petition for Text To Speech on the Amazon Kindle e-book device. Attend the NYC protest April 7!

Mon Apr 6 09:50:31 CDT 2009

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>From: Jenifer Simpson <jsimpson at aapd.com>
>Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 09:23:44 -0500
>Subject: [coataccess] Please sign petition for Text To Speech on the 
>Amazon Kindle e-book
>  device. Attend the NYC protest April 7!
>
>When Amazon released the Kindle 2 electronic book reader on February 
>9, 2009, the company announced that the device would read e-books 
>aloud using text-to-speech technology.  Under pressure from the 
>Authors Guild, Amazon has announced that it will give authors and 
>publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any 
>or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2.
>
>The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot 
>read print, will protest the threatened removal of the 
>text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside 
>the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd 
>Street on April 7, 2009, from noon to 2:00 p.m.  The coalition 
>includes the organizations that represent the blind, people with 
>dyslexia, people with learning or processing issues, seniors losing 
>vision, people with spinal cord injuries, people recovering from 
>strokes, and many others for whom the addition of text-to-speech on 
>the Kindle 2 promised for the first time easy, mainstream access to 
>over 245,000 books.  Over twenty-five organizations have joined to 
>form 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: 
><blocked::http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read>http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/We-Want-To-Read
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>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.
>
>Thank you so much for your participation in this critically 
>important effort. To learn more about this new coalition or to join, 
>please go to the website at 
><http://www.readingrights.org/>http://www.readingrights.org
>
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>
>Jenifer
>
>AAPD is a member of The Reading Rights Coalition as are several 
>other COAT organizations (e.g., ACB, AFB).
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