Hi, Sarah. I'm one who signed your petition a month back. I'm in agreement, however, that a few hundred signatures possibly might not make a lick of difference. If there was a way to get many more signatures than that, that would be more effective, one would think. But so far, I don't sense that the powers that be at MySpace have us in mind at all.
You know, I can't remember what event prompted Google to finally add an audio link for their graphic captcha. Something evidently had an effect because Google showed signs of attempting to be more blind accessible. If only MySpace would follow suit. All I know is before we even register with MySpace, we are in trouble right off the bat because of a graphic captcha. Then once we flag down sighted help to get us beyond that roadblock, way too often, we are unable to add people to our friends list and more importantly send other members any email.--depending on other members' spam settings. It's so frustrating because if there's one thing I'm not, that's spam. Please note I'm not advocating any type of strong-arming (legal recourses or otherwise). No no, just hoping for an effective way to prompt MySpace to consider becoming a bit more accessible for us. We're being left out of a huge on-line community. Chris Feist - The one and only! -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Sarah True. I'll consider that. I might also do an online press release and see. I'm new at this kind of stuff and believe it or not, it was a sighted person who coaxed me in to doing this. There are some sighted users who signed in favor of the audio thing as well. Take care all. Thanks. Sarah Alawami ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Ventura" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I think worldwide myspace already has a few millions users. Lets take that in perspective. Even if every person reading your message right now signed the petition, I would doubt you would get more than 1,000 or so signatures. That wouldn't even be enough to make the folks at myspace blink. If you are really serious about this you may want to approach one the major blindness organizations with your petition idea since they have the ability to reach many times more people to solicit signatures. Once a much larger signature base is derived you would probably want to approach myspace's sponsors (check the ads on their page) first before ever showing your hand to myspace. Just my thoughts Frank Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blind-Computing mailing list Blind-Computing@jaws-users.com http://mail.jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com
