yahoo groups accessibility

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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Hi,

The trouble is, there are a few things that will require you to
go the web route anyway, like posting or retrieving stuff in the
files area of a list. Yahoo has worked like this for a long time
now, and it really sucks.

Chuck
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, alex stone wrote:

> 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
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Speakup mailing list
> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca
> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
> >
>
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