-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > - -- The Moon is Waxing Crescent (33% of Full) In a world without Fences or Walls no one needs Windows or Gates. My web site is now at: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze7qefb/chuckh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBP+8UYzVdG8M9x9tGAQLjcwP/TtAkVUMLbOKxSes/iuDQyN9HQcsmh1u5 e2j40HDmMJpEi6Oq1wae9XxJbNBwcvW1ouxIa4bkWXC66xN0Fmyu6+JVcfdtqmQL zjR+5v/CtQFqxTbKyxH85ytE03J7S8t9mJioY5xTVrypvaQ5RlqDQHRmrVBFR7X7 IJEpiC5iMQQ= =TOGy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
