yahoo groups accessibility

[alex stone]

Once you've subscribed by e-mail, you can go to the relevant web page and
put your profile details in and get access to all these features without
having to enter the stupid word or number or whatever it is.
Cheers.
Alex
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chuck Hallenbeck" <chuckh at sent.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: yahoo groups accessibility


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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
> > >
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