I forwarded this message to Gary Moulton one of the Vice-Presidents of Microsoft and it will be interesting to see the response. Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorenzo Prince" <lorenzo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 16:36 Subject: Re: msn registration > I think about the only thing to do is to sue Microsoft. Sounds crazy, but > unfortunately it's true. Even if you could get to the link, the audio > file that is provided is "intentionally garbled" according to the page > where I found it. And if you try to listen to it, it will take you many > many tries before you gan get one you can halfway understand. My wife > still uses windows and I was trying to set her up with a passport so she > could use the messenger, and so that's how I found out just how hard they > intentionally make it for blind or visually impaired people to actually > get a passport account. It took me about an hour and a half just to get > her signed up, and the majority of the time was spent going to the exact > link to which you are referring over and over because their audio file was > too garbled to understand. Then when I called Microsoft in an attempt to > resolve the problem, I got nothing but the royal run-around. No one > wanted to even take the time to listen. One person told me she would let > me talk to her supervisor to try to work out the problem and promptly put > me on hold for 15 minutes only to hang up on me. And then somebody > finally gave me the number to their legal department, which turned out to > be nothing more than a bunch of voice mail and prerecorded messages. > So to briefly sum things up, I don't think we will get any cooperation > from Microsoft and we will have to resort to legal remedies just like so > many other people including the government have had to do in the past. > Although this time, I hope the results are a little more favorable for us, > as so far, Microsoft seems to still be able to continue doing everything > the courts told them they can't do anymore, and seem to be able to get > away with all of it somehow. > I didn't mean to take up so much time and disk space ranting, but I felt > this was probably the best place to let people know what Microsoft is > doing now and what needs to be done to remedy the situation, since we were > on the topic of setting up a passport account. > > Thanks for listening, and good luck! > Lorenzo > > [In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I > thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less > abusive.') > -- Matt Welsh > > Cheryl Homiak staggered into view and mumbled: > > > Since centericq doesn't support registration, I went to www.msn.com. Is the > > passport there what I want to register for? At any rate, they had a picture > > where you type in the characters, and they had a link to use if you can't see > > the picture. Only, in lynx, it's (you guessed it) "unsupported url scheme!" > > Haven't tried it in link the chain yet. I'd like to know if there's an easier > > way to do this if anybody has accomplished it. > > Thanks. > > > > Cheryl > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list