[blindlaw] LinkedIn Has Been Made Inaccessible To The Blind

[William ODonnell]

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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