Posted by Jim on 10/02/07 17:52

"Ben C" <spamspam@spam.eggs> wrote in message
news:slrnfg50r0.5n9.spamspam@bowser.marioworld...
> On 2007-10-02, Relayer <relayer101@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:
>>>
>>> > > 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.
>
> That doesn't follow. Robert Maas may have an older computer that only
> displays text and be using the Lynx browser for example.
>
> 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=!

> 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.

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