[gui-talk] help subscribing to blindtech, please!

Wed Aug 8 22:12:31 CDT 2007

Hi,

I'm laughing, a little bitterly. Yes, someone at Yahoo once offered this 
solution to me, when I was trying to sign up for another list, and I thanked 
them profusely. And then they never actually did it. It was a really 
frustrating experience that I just don't feel like repeating. As our 
resident accessibility evangelist  believes, they just ought to get their 
trip together and provide a streaming audio alternative for the graphical 
CAPTCHA, and that's it.

Anyway, thanks. Glad it worked out for you.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jennifer Aberdeen" <freespirit328 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 7:50 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] help subscribing to blindtech, please!

Hi,

I just wanted to mention this. After I joined my first Yahoo group, whoever
helped me with the capcha from yahoo set it so that I wouldn't need to worry
about that anymore. Now, whenever I join a yahoo group, the capcha isn't an
issue.

Someone from Yahoo should have offered this to you if you've joined yahoo
groups before.

Jen
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] help subscribing to blindtech, please!

> Talk about frustration!  Are you subscribed to any other Yahoo Groups?  If
> so, sending the e-mail should have worked.  I've never attempted using
> Yahoo's help feature in that way so I can't help.  If you aren't
> subscribed
> to any of their groups, not even sleeping with the moderator would help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 4:26 PM
> To: GUI-Talk
> Subject: [gui-talk] help subscribing to blindtech, please!
>
> Note: If you choose to read this message, please read it carefully.
> Thanks.
>
> As I wrote earlier, I am having trouble subscribing to the blindTech
> mailing
> list. I knew without going to the site that to sign up there would require
> requesting help from Yahoo staff because I couldn't get past the CAPTCHA
> that's the last step on the sign-up page.
>
> So, hoping the conventional alternative of subscribing by email would
> work,
> I emailed the subscribe address (blindtech-subscribe at yahoogroups.com) and
> received the conventional request for confirmation. I replied to it as
> you're supposed to. Now, with most groups to which I've subscribed by
> email,
> this is all you've got to do. Once you send back the confirm email, next
> thing you receive is your welcome message and list instructions.
>
> But as has happened to me before with Yahoo lists, I sent in the
> confirmation reply and nothing came back. Not yesterday, not today. It's
> not
> hung up waiting for the mod to approve me. It just isn't going to come. I
> know this from experience.
>
> So I thought maybe if I clicked on the link within the confirm request, it
> might take me to a page where I'd just be told Congratulations, and then a
> welcome message would be emailed to me. That is done with some things like
> this.
>
> But no such luck. Instead, I was taken to the same sort of page I'd
> already
> been to, rendering the email approach no kind of workaround at all. Again,
> I
> had to enter some info, and then respond to the CAPTCHA.
>
> So I gave up, despite my memory of lousy service on the tech assistance
> issue at that point, and clicked through to the form you're supposed to
> use
> to ask for help with this procedure.
>
> I filled out the form, supplying everything the starred fields asked for,
> and writing a short note in the appropriate space to explain I needed help
> getting past the CAPTCHA  as I was a screen reader blind user.
>
> I clicked on Send. But what I got wasn't a screen confirming that my
> request
> had been submitted, but just the identical screen, with a few of the
> fields
> needing to be filled in yet again, though I'd filled them in the first
> time.
>
> Meticulously, I did it all over, and pressed Send.
>
> Then I got the same thing. Except, as happened the first time, there was
> no
> error message, which is what you'd expect if you kept getting this
> response
> after submitting a form. I tried it one more time. Same result. This is
> totally crazy. And this was a different form than what I remember from the
> last time, because it didn't ask you for a phone number, only your email
> address.
>
> BTW, there are two links that say to click on them for help. The first one
> says if you need help signing up, click on it. That was this one.
>
> There's also another link to click for help. One of them says "if you
> can't
> see this" and I forget which that is-- but they both lead to the same help
> form page, one of which is titled a Beta of some sort.
>
> This is way crazy. anyone know what I might be doing wrong? Or does anyone
> know the mod's email so I can just ask them to subscribe me? I really hate
> Yahoo Groups. I mean the service, not the people in the groups. :-)
>
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