# All ipod owners please read!

Category: Let's talk

## Post 1 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 15:17:33

Ok guys. If you own an ipod then this pitition is for you.
installing rockbox is a real pain in the ass. here is a pitition to apple to maybe have speech as standard on an ipod.
click here for the petition

## Post 2 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 15:41:47

i signed it now

## Post 3 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 16:24:59

coool dan. spread the word if you can.

## Post 4 by bozmagic (The rottie's your best friend if you want him/her to be, lol.) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 16:45:48

Nice one Dan. I'm signing up right this blessed minute. Us Ipod Nano users would most certainly benefit from speech output on our Ipods.

## Post 5 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 19:40:27

hello you all! I varry greatfull for your support. Spread the word to all of your friends. if we get a lot of signatures we may get this goad accomplished. you all should follow in my footsteps and make a petition to companys you think need to have speech in there products as well. Petitions really work as long as you have a lot of signatures so if you believe in this cause sign this petition.

## Post 6 by Toonhead71 (move over school!) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 20:25:45

This better get one *hell!* of a lot of signatures or this won't be taken seriously. I think the compromise Apple should really do is to do what the Olympus folks are doing and provide speech output, but make it a mode that can be easily turned on and off. of course we'd need to know how to turn it on, but at this point that part doesn't matter. If you only get a hundred or so signatures, the folks at Apple won't even take you seriously. You'd have to get upwards of thousands, or maybe even hundreds of thousands before they'd consider. Apple has never been one to listen to accessibility concerns, so you're gonna really have to get this thing out there and promote it to absolutely everrryone you know, blind or sighted.

## Post 7 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 22:16:35

Well said, and I signed the petition.

## Post 8 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Monday, 16-Apr-2007 23:02:58

i agree chis. I made a bulleton on myspace to help promote it. and thank you all for signing this petition. Please spread the word.
If you kknow other blind users or sited people that believe in this cause, please direct them to that url.

## Post 9 by cuddle_kitten84 (I just keep on posting!) on Tuesday, 17-Apr-2007 6:55:50

i signed it, getting it in an email from dan today. thanks, much appreciated. signed and named by me.

## Post 10 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Tuesday, 17-Apr-2007 13:33:06

np. that's why i made it just for that reason.
and another question. Has anyone ever emailed apple before?
I can't find there email address. Worst comes to worst i'll have to mail it to them.
thank all. If you have there email address or find let me know please.
thank you.

## Post 11 by laced-unlaced (Account disabled) on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007 9:30:20

if i find it, i will let you know, austin

## Post 12 by jmbauer (Technology's great until it stops working.) on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007 10:49:30

Austin,
I signed the petition, and I agree with Toon-Chris: This thing'll need thousands of signatures at the very least if Apple is to take any kind of notice. I don't own an IPod myself, and almost didn't read this because of its subject line. So my advice to you—if you're serious about this cause—would be: promote! Promote! Promote! You should've put this under a different subject—something like 'Petition for IPod Speech: Please Read and Sign. Then, I'd say you have a chance of getting to people who are more than IPod owners.
Personally, I think that anything speech-equipped is a good thing, and I wish you luck with this; but you aren't going to get the participation you need by directing this at the audience you've targeted with this board.

## Post 13 by rat (star trek rules!) on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007 17:38:15

i signed it myself, really like this idea

## Post 14 by Austin (the magic fan!) on Wednesday, 18-Apr-2007 23:24:57

it says all ipod owner please read. what the fuck is wrong with that?
It does catch attension.
and i agree with chris as well. I've promoted it on myspace and dig and things of that sort.

## Post 15 by the reconstructionist (lucifer doesn't exist. he is only the planet venus personified!) on Thursday, 19-Apr-2007 5:17:06

Yo all. I don't have an ipod yet but I will be getting one so I'm signing The Petition.