yahoo groups accessibility

[alex stone]

Cheryl,  if you subscribe through e-mail, you don't have to care about any
of this nonsense!
I was trying to subscribe to a group last week, and filled in the form for
someone to call me, I'm still waiting, so I subscribed by e-mail.
Cheers.
Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at chartermi.net>
To: "speakup" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 3:48 PM
Subject: yahoo groups accessibility


> Maybe this has been going on for months; I haven't tried to join a group
> at Yahoo for a while; I'd avoid them completely if i could.
> However, there was a group I really wanted to join and just tried to do
> so. they now have a word that you have to copy into a box to verify your
> registration for a group and they have a place you are supposed to "click"
> if you are visually impaired to get a customer care person to "help" you.
> I clicked this in lynx and got 'unsupported url scheme!" (now why should
> that surprise me?!) I did the same in
> links and was given an url--not a link mind you but an url--that I'm
> supposed to paste into my browser to request help. and I'm supposed to
> provide my phone number as well as my email address in order to get this
> "help". can they really legally make me jump through these hoops? Has
> anybody found a way around this or gone through their little process; if
> so, did you really get help? I resent being asked to give out my phone
> number just because I'm blind!!!
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> Cheryl
>
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