Hi,
It is the URL of the website, not the direct link for signing the petition.
Please do send.


On 6/24/13, David Richards <drvvrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Access Indian Bharat, thanks a lot for your well-informed feedback,
> Access Indians can better visit global consumer campaigning website at
> http://www.change.org and read the petition in its entirety and can sign the
> petition.
> Regards.
> David Richards.
>
>
> Sent from my Nokia phone
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bharat
> Sent:  24/06/2013 1:00:04 pm
> Subject:  Re: [AI] A petition to Google on accessibility from the
> visually-challenged community
>
> David,
>
> Accessibility with Google is more than a lost cause! It just isn't
> their priority.
>
> Also, I guess, you forgot to include the link with your message
>
>
>
> On 6/24/13, David Richards <drvvrj...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear all Access Indians, Software giant Google has been petitioned by
>> J.P.
>> Shandra, a blind user, to make each of its products accessible for people
>> with visual disabilities. The petition, posted on global consumer
>> campaigning site Change.org, identifies that the company is failing to
>> keep
>> up with its competitors on accessibility. While Google has made
>> significant
>> steps towards improving the accessibility of some of its applications,
>> including Gmail and Chrome, Shandra says Google fails to integrate the
>> needs
>> of vision-impaired users into its product development. Shandra identifies
>> the social network Google+ as an example of a product which has been
>> released to the public with inaccessible buttons and form fields.
>> "Vision-impaired community is tired of hearing accessibility features are
>> coming in updates. They must be there from the very beginning. Stop
>> treating
>> your vision-impaired customers as second-class citizens," said Shandra in
>> the petition's description. "Moreover, stop treating them like they don't
>> exist at all. We have the right to live a productive life like everyone
>> else," Shandra asserted. Conversely, Apple incorporates the accessibility
>> into the development of its devices and software, making its products the
>> first choice of the most blind and vision-impaired users the world-over.
>> "Apple designs their products with accessibility in mind right from the
>> start. Even if the execution isn't perfect, the intention was clearly
>> there," Shandra remarked. According to the World Health Organization,
>> there
>> are 285 million blind/vision-impaired people worldwide. This represents a
>> significant market which Google is failing to reach. At the time of
>> writing
>> the petition on Wednesday, 22 May 2013, it had 125 signatures backing
>> Shandra's representation, but many more are needed to exert pressure on
>> Google to change its policies. If so many of us want to prove ourselves
>> as
>> champions for the cause of accessibility, let's not hesitate to carry the
>> torch for our rights of accessibility and back Shandra by signing the
>> petition to Google.
>> Warm regards.
>> David Richards.
>>
>>
>> Sent from my Nokia phone
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