Posted by DrFeelgoodWA on 10/04/07 17:17

"Harlan Messinger" <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> wrote in
message news:5mkkljFdvsnbU1@mid.individual.net...
> Harlan Messinger wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>> For the record, I just ran most of the way through the on-line
>> application for hourly store employees and observed just one real
>> barrier that would take about a minute to fix, and one nuisance.
>>
>> I accomplished the entire thing by keyboard. All information is
>> communicated in text. There is no flashing, no scrolling or
>> limited-time display. Color is not used to convey information.
>> [snip]
>> So that's it. One problem that would be extremely easy to fix, and
>> one possible problem that could be worked out differently. One
>> might wonder why Toys R Us, if someone were to put them on notice
>> about this, wouldn't make this simple effort rather than be exposed
>> even to complaints, let alone legal action.
>
> Another issue I just noticed when attempting to use the site with
> Lynx: *overuse* of alt text. The author evidently doesn't understand
> that the alt attribute should be left empty UNLESS the image is
> conveying substantive information. This site is littered with the
> names of image files and references to "spacer" that should be
> eliminated.
>
> Finally, my Lynx client doesn't support https (secure http), and the
> application area communicates using https, so I was unable to get to
> the application with Lynx. Establishing secure communication for an
> interaction that involves transmission of personal information is
> important. If it turns out that the reason the OP's can't get to the
> job information and application is because his browser doesn't
> support https, well, yes, that's a barrier, but it isn't
> unreasonable to require that users have a browser that supports
> https because security of the consideration is a bona fide
> necessity.



Put your Linux where the sun don't shine.

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