When we created the International Association of Visually Impaired
Technologists, this kind of thing became a huge issue. Lots of us happen
to live in countries where our rights are better protected than they are
in other parts of the world. Are general discrimination issues relevant
to being a technologist? I maintained that we needed to stick to things
directly related to doing the job of working with computers. But a lot
of people disagreed. I'm afraid we lost some people immediately because
of it.
But I still think what we really need is an international version of the
NFB. Whatever you may think of the NFB, it does have it's good side
especially when it comes to advocacy. I've had enough trouble even
getting people interested in helping with IAVIT and what we have is
totally inadequate for dealing with issues like this. I wish I had the
guts to quit my job and get to work on it. I was just reading up on
James Love, the founder of Knowledge Ecology, and it says that he used
to be a commercial fisherman. Knowledge Ecology is the group that has
been working on getting a treaty through the UN that would essentially
allow bookshare.org to go international.
Anyway, I'd be reluctant to just dismiss stuff like this as spam. I've
contacted Tom. I'll see if we can get more specifics. We'll try to flesh
out the details a little. After that, each of us will have to decide on
our own whether the cause is worthy of our attention.
On 12/04/2014 02:51 AM, Pia wrote:
Warning this looks like spam. On the website there is no details about
the supposed case, just a bunch of requests for money in poorly written
English. Also, the website redirects you to a crowdfunding site.
On Wed, 3 Dec 2014, Tomáš Cerha wrote:
Dear list members,
I am sorry for cross-posting an off topic message, but I believe this
is an important precedence that must be heard.
I would like to very kindly ask you for sharing an important
information about a case, where a blind man decided to defend his
rights and the rights of other blind and visually impaired people
against the state. More details at http://DefendTheBlind.com
<http://defendtheblind.com/> .
It is now really important to get the message across!
The possibilities are:
1. Share our Facebook post:
https://www.facebook.com/a11yltd/posts/368404846670835
<https://www.facebook.com/a11yltd/posts/368404846670835>
2. Re-tweet our message:
https://twitter.com/a11yltd/status/540105668636999680
<https://twitter.com/a11yltd/status/540105668636999680>
3. Publish a message about DefendTheBlind.com
<http://defendtheblind.com/>
If you have some other idea how you could help us, please let us know!
Thank you for understanding and apologies for wasting your time if
this doesn’t interest you. If you decide to reply, please do so
personally to avoid discussing this off topic message on the list!
Best regards
Tomas Cerha
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