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Posted by Relayer on 10/03/07 15:05
On Oct 3, 9:40?am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote:
> DrFeelgoodWA wrote:
> > "Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removet...@comcast.net> wrote in
> > messagenews: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.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
Let's just assume for a minute this is a retail job (any corporate job
would not be applied for on-line if they expect to get it).
What job in a retail toy store would a blind person be remotely
qualified for?
Come on..this is bullshit.
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