http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/group_rss/DisabilityRightsColorado A group of individuals committed to promoting and defending the Americans with Disabilities Act and the proposed ADA Restoration Act. A ballot initiative by House Speaker Andrew Romanoff and Sen. Ken Gordon is designed to free public education from the chains that strangle funding of our public schools. TIME IS SHORT! - 120,000 signatures are needed by July 18th (this month). To sign and/or to help circulate petitions click here>> http://www.coloradosafe.org Hoping the link works. If not, copy and paste, please. http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/Cq7D http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/Cq7D/commentary#comments Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:47:18 MDT http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/Cq7D Andy Lewis http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/profile_picture/f1f3dc07f085ce5e0b_axm6ibfzb.jpg Andy Lewis 1 http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/comment_rss/Cq7D/ The health insurance industry is hard at work to protect their profits in Colorado. I've been getting "Push Poll" calls from a place called "Datapolres" on my caller ID, showing this number, 7033788323, which when dialed, is met with a message saying, "this number has been disconnected." Here's a site about this number: http://whocalled.us/lookup/7033788323 Upon answering the call, a series of leading questions are asked, starting with, "Are you in favor of, or against the government having complete access to your health care records?" They aren't, of course, looking for or recording a response. They are planting a seed, so to speak. The clear implication is that my privacy is being threatened in some way. Gosh- what could be then source of this threat? Let me guess. Health care reform? Further proof that these people are out of control, and need to be neutered like a pit bull. After that, I utter an expletive, and hang up. I haven't heard the rest of the questions. I'll be more patient next time. Anybody else been getting these calls? http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/CqlF http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/CqlF/commentary#comments Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:05:59 MDT http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/andylewis/CqlF Andy Lewis http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/profile_picture/f1f3dc07f085ce5e0b_axm6ibfzb.jpg Andy Lewis 162 http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/comment_rss/CqlF/ (Click for a larger image) Given the large numbers of e-mails that legislators receive, it's understandable that they would want to weed out spammers by using some sort of challenge-response system on their contact forms. Personally I think it's counterproductive, as they can install software like the rest of us that will simply blacklist spammers or shunt their messages into junk mail folders. But Allard's web staff has gone to the extreme, by forcing people to interpret a skewed set of letters and numbers presented in the form of a graphic, and then type them back in. This completely shuts out the blind, because screen reading software will not interpret those letters. This is in direct violation of Section 508 , which mandates that government web sites be accessible to those using assistive technology. Specificaly, it mandates that "individuals with disabilities who are members of the public seeking information or services from a Federal department or agency to have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access to and use of the information and data by such members of the public who are not individuals with disabilities." Just because Allard was one of only 7 Senators to vote against the law in 1998 doesn't mean that he gets to flout it at will. http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/michaelditto/CqnB http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/michaelditto/CqnB/commentary#comments Mon, 14 May 2007 17:01:22 MDT http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/michaelditto/CqnB Michael Ditto http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/profile_picture/f660dc8ce688a8bfdc_5fmmv2i99.jpg Michael Ditto 2 http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/comment_rss/CqnB/