[blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind

[Mike Freeman]

Can you hit Control to silence JAWS?

Ah, the advantages of an external synth!

Mike

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Ladis" <tom at tomladis.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:09 AM
Subject: [blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind


> Hello All,
>
> I received an invitation to connect to colleagues from the past through 
> www.LinkedIn.com.  I have used LinkedIn in the past and been able to get 
> around with only a few problems.  It appears that they have added 
> real-time verification to the login process on top of the normal username 
> and password.  They do offer the ability to have the image that they 
> present for real[-time verification, but the text is spoken at the same 
> time that JAWS announces the popup window.  This seems to me to be a 
> barrier and was not there the last time that I logged in to my account.
>
> Does anyone else on here use LinkedIn?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
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