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Posted by Harlan Messinger on 10/03/07 14:40
DrFeelgoodWA wrote:
> "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in
> message news:5mfv6fFbvs0kU1@mid.individual.net...
>> Relayer wrote:
>>> On Oct 1, 8:40?pm, rem6...@yahoo.com (Robert Maas, see
>>> http://tinyurl.com/uh3t)
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> You can also apply at the store itself. I know this because there
>>> is a
>>> TRU down the street and they have one of those street side signs
>>> asking people to apply on-line or in the store.
>> The theory is that if the convenience of applying for employment
>> online is provided, it should be accessible to interested persons
>> with disabilities.
>>
>>> In addition, why would YOU sue them? You are HERE..on line..so YOU
>>> HAVE ACCESS to a computer...and instead of spamming a news group,
>>> perhaps you should have spent the time APPLYING for the job
>> You don't know what the OP's disability is. It may be that he's
>> blind and the Toys R Us website isn't hasn't been designed to
>> function with a speech reader. Or it may have features that only
>> work by clicking on them with a mouse, and the OP may have mobility
>> impairments that restrict him to functions available through
>> keyboard use.
>
> So you're saying TRU should stop taking applications on line because
> 1% of the disabled people that may or may not apply on line can't do
> so?
They should exert the effort to make their website accessible to the
disabled. It isn't hard. It's much more a matter of knowing what *not*
to do (using color distinctions as the sole means of communicating
substantive information; providing access to functions only through an
image with a Javascript onclick handler so that they can't be accessed
via the keyboard; using absolute font sizes) than of knowing what to do
(provide ALT text to communicate the same information conveyed by
images). Many websites are accessible.
> I hate to burst your bubble but even the OP can apply on line.
> Public libraries provide internet service and will gladly supply a
> real live person to assist a disabled person fill out online forms.
Whereas non-disabled people don't have to haul all the way to the
library to be able to fill out a form. That's the point.
> Lawsuit happy dip-shits are abundant in our society and the cause of
> no small amount of harm to the rest of us. Face it he wants to file a
> lawsuit over a job he probably couldn't do if hired.
You think the disabled don't have jobs? How would you know what job he
would have applied for and whether he'd be able to do it? It's easy to
scoff when you allow yourself to imagine what the situation "probably"
is and then assume that it really is that way.
> I'll be happy to
> testify on behalf of TRU should such lawsuit be filed in my area.
What kind of testimony do you imagine yourself to have to offer that
would be of value in their case? From your off-the-cuff reaction, it's
evident that you have little background on the subject.
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