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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 >
