[blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind

[Tom Ladis]

William,

Aren't they legally responsible for making their site usable by everybody, 
including the excessively unemployed blind population?


Tom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William ODonnell" <william.odonnell1 at yahoo.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind


No, I did and we see how far that has gotton me.  See the post from 
Yesterday as a forwarded message.  They thank you for the input and then 
brush it off.
That is the same story as is with every major corporation in this country.


--- On Fri, 8/6/10, Tom Ladis <tom at tomladis.com> wrote:

> From: Tom Ladis <tom at tomladis.com>
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Date: Friday, August 6, 2010, 9:47 AM
> Thank you. This one seems like
> a problem since it is so often used in the
> job search and career networking arena. I have quite
> a few friends on there
> and would like to keep that career networking tool
> available to everyone.
>
> Should I submit a trouble ticket?
>
>
> Tom Ladis
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William ODonnell" <william.odonnell1 at yahoo.com>
> To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible
> To The Blind
>
>
> I use it and have also had the same problem. See the
> next forwarded message
> with the reply to my enquiry.
>
>
> --- On Thu, 8/5/10, Tom Ladis <tom at tomladis.com>
> wrote:
>
> > From: Tom Ladis <tom at tomladis.com>
> > Subject: [blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made
> Inaccessible To The Blind
> > To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
> > Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 11:09 AM
> > 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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