yahoo groups accessibility

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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The message about unsupported url scheme is an indicator of
javascript when using lynx the cat.


On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Scott Berry wrote:

> Hi Sheryl,
>
> I have done this before but I was using Windows when I did this I don't
> remember being required to give out my telephone number.  Boy that is a
> bunch of crap having to do that.  As far as unsupported urls I think
> this is due to the fact of incorrect syntax.
>
> On Sun, 28 Dec 2003, Cheryl
> Homiak wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
>

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