Karen’s Awards Banquet and Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition Update

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Congratulations go to Karen for her five years of distinguished service in the hospitality industry. It is nice to see traits like longevity and loyalty being highly valued. The awards banquet was fabulous!

The Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition is an excellent way for the blind community to get involved in some constructive accessibility advocacy that can make a difference. Please submit your promos, suggestions and all other feedback to editor (at) blindaccessjournal.com. When promoting the petition, it may be easier to use the BlindWebAccess.com domain name as an effective shortcut.

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Google Accessibility Petition: New BlindWebAccess.com Domain Goes Live

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A new domain, BlindWebAccess.com, has now gone live in support of the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition. Visiting this new domain will instantly redirect the user to the petition’s home page. Everyone is welcome to distribute this new domain far and wide, especially when promoting the petition outside the technology oriented media. Thanks go to Tina for the suggestion of this specific domain name.

Press Release – Google Asked to Make Its Visual Word Verification Accessible

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Check out the press release published to the media regarding the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition. If you have not done so already, please sign the petition. After that, please follow the link to the press release and forward it to all associates, friends, relatives, bloggers, podcasters and members of the conventional media for wide distribution. Thank you all for your support.

I Have A Dream

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In the spirit of the speech entitled I Have A Dream as delivered in 1963 by Martin Luther King, Jr. I advocate for the equal access to technology and alternative transportation that we, the blind and visually impaired, must be granted in order to be fully included and able to participate in society on terms of equality with the sighted. Please join me in this critical struggle for justice by signing the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition today and by taking all other actions necessary and appropriate to support our right to equal accessibility.

Help Us Ask Dr. Schmidt to Allow Access to Google’s Word Verification

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As part of the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition, a personalized letter will be written and sent to Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. Assistance and feedback on the content of this letter is being actively sought from the blind community. Constructive suggestions and even draft content is being accepted at editor@blindaccessjournal.com for potential incorporation into the results of this vital project. We have a couple of months to get this done, so please participate.

Sign the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition Today

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We at the Blind Access Journal call upon all blind and visually impaired people and those whom care about what happens to us to sign the Google Word Verification Accessibility Petition asking Google to provide an accessible alternative to the visual verification scheme that currently locks us out of participation in all the company’s services. After allowing sufficient time to collect a significant number of signatures, the signed petition will be sent, via certified mail along with a personalized letter, to Dr. Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO. Visual verification without accessibility represents a growing, immediate clear and present danger to the continued ability of the blind and visually impaired to participate in all the Internet has to offer on terms of equality with our sighted peers. Let’s all sign this petition and do all we can to urge Google to make the situation right by following the company’s own mission statement and allowing participation by all.