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Posted by Six String Stu on 10/02/07 19:10
"Relayer" <relayer101@aol.com> wrote in message
news:1191347964.138275.190670@y42g2000hsy.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 2, 12:52?pm, "Jim" <j...@home.con> wrote:
>> "Ben C" <spams...@spam.eggs> wrote in message
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>> news:slrnfg50r0.5n9.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...
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>> > On 2007-10-02, Relayer <relayer...@aol.com> wrote:
>> >> On Oct 2, 8:59?am, Chaddy2222 <spamlovermailbox-sicur...@yahoo.com.au>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>> On Oct 2, 9:58 pm, Relayer <relayer...@aol.com> wrote:> On Oct 1,
>> >>> 8:40?pm, rem6...@yahoo.com (Robert Maas, seehttp://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
>> >>> > wrote:
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>> >>> > > Their Web site for applying for employment is inaccessible to
>> >>> > > low-income disabled people who are most in need of jobs.
>> >>> > > Is there any lawyer in the audience who will help me sue them?
>> > [...]
>> >> And that would prevent you from applying for a job on the internet in
>> >> which way? You were able to access the post and thi snews group,
>> >> therefore you are able to access the directions on how to apply.
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>> > That doesn't follow. Robert Maas may have an older computer that only
>> > displays text and be using the Lynx browser for example.
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>> > If so then he's quite right that their recruitment pages ought to be
>> > accessible from Lynx.
>>
>> So companies should have their pages accessible to all known forms of
>> computerized access/programming? And who is going to pay the cost of the
>> extra people needed to do this? That's what is wrong with the country
>> today;
>> you can't accomodate =everyone=!
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>> > But I don't know if he can sue them. And most employers don't care who
>> > is most in need of a job anyway, just what kind of person they perceive
>> > themselves to be most in need of employing.- Hide quoted text -
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> The don't, they won't and if someone needed that much specialized
> equiptment, they would never, ever be hired for a job in retail. Maybe
> is is looking for another type of job at TRU though but in reality, I
> think he is looking for someone to sue, rather than someone to work
> for.
>
There are access technology products and programs. Also rules that if the
cost is not out rageously high (and most times equiped and funded by third
parties) then "equal accomidation" does apply.
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