Posted by DrFeelgoodWA on 10/03/07 15:32

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in
message news:5mhnveFdf75iU1@mid.individual.net...
> 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.

Hey asshole, I'm disabled, low income and have no problem accessing
the TRU website. They are not required nor should they be required to
make their web site accessable to lawsuit happy jackasses with zero
chance of employment by them or any other business.


>
>> 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.


No it's not the point. The point is some jackass that never intends to
work a day the rest of his life wants to collect large sums of cash
for not working because he is to stupid to fill out an online job
application.


>
>> 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.

It's easy to say he is capable and willing to do any job when you
don't know him or his situation at all?
FYI TRU is a store that actively seeks and employes disabled people.

>
>> 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.


For one; Being low income disabled I could testify how easy it was
for me to access their website job application.

And two; I could testify how my local TRU stores actively employ
disabled people.

Being disabled myself I'm sure any jury would eat up my testimony.

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