yahoo groups accessibility

[alex stone]

Cheryl, It's all well and good if they do actually call you if you provide
your phone number etc, however, I have heard a rumour that if you don't live
in the US they don't call!
Cheers.
Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cheryl Homiak" <chomiak at chartermi.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 4:41 PM
Subject: Re: yahoo groups accessibility


> Yes, it looks like this works, but i suppose i should email them and point
> out that what they are offering is not a form of equal access  (even
> though I appreciate the fact that they were at least aware of the need
> for an alternative) and suggest
> that at the very least they just let people know they can subscribe via
> email. As long as this
> avenue is open, that's fine, but we really shouldn't be barred from doing
> it through the website unless we give out our phone numbers and request
> help.
> payPal at least had a wav file (don't know what they are doing now); it
> was a royal pain in my oppinion but it could be done. And that was only a
> one-time thing for registration.
> Ok, I'll quit encumbering the list with my venting, but I wonder how many
> of the people who dream up this kind of thing to solve accessibility
> issues would be willing to send in their emails and sit around waiting
> for a phone call just to join a group?! GET REAL!!!
> Thanks for the quick responses anyway.
> Hmm, maybe I shouldn't remind them that one can still subscribe by email;
> maybe this is another gap in their security they will then close!!!
>
>
> -- 
> Cheryl
>
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