[nfb-talk] Amazon

[Brian Miller]

Hi William,

I shop at Amazon.com all the time -- it is by far one of my favorite
websites for shopping, and not just for books, but CD's, electronic goods,
and all kinds of specialty merchandise.

In the past I've had some problems with the check out part of the site -- 
specifically, you couldn't click on a choice for shipping, even though it
clearly indicated that you should be able to do so.  This meant one couldn't
click on "free super-saver shipping," for example -- seemed rather invideous
to me.

This issue has long since corrected itself, and I have no problems.

Yes, the site is crowded with info, but a lot of that info is useful stuff,
links to other products, and so on.

One thing I often do is figure out a unique string of letters for which I
can do a JAWS search from the top of the screen.  For example, after I've
pulled up a book, I go to the top of the screen, then search for "Wedding,"
which takes me to the prompt that says "add to wedding registry."  This is
not what I am interested in, but immediately below this begins all the
pertinent information about the product, skipping over all the other stuff
before.

There is, believe it or not, an 800 number you can call to place orders.  It
is: 800 201 7575 -- call them, tell them you are having access issues, and
they can place the order for you right then without any additional charge.
They're always very nice about it.

Brian Miller
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wm. Ritchhart" <william.ritchhart at sbcglobal.net>
To: <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:53 AM
Subject: [nfb-talk] Amazon


> Folks,
>
> During this past year, I have purchased several items from amazon.com.
> I would say that actually making the purchase has been fairly easy.
> However, I have found that searching for specific items on the amazon
> site is much more difficult.  I have generally avoided frustration by
> searching at my AT&T yahoo home page, and then clicking the search
> result that takes me to amazon.com.
>
> Where is the above going?  I am curious if any other totally blind folks
> have made searches and purchases on amazon.com?  How did it work for
> you?  Do you have problems sorting the wheat from chaff?  Mainly I am
> just curious.  One year ago I was able to purchase stuff without sighted
> assistance.  But it wasn't the most blind user site I shopped on.  The
> amazon site has improved in many ways during the past year and I am
> interested to see if others are using it successfully.
>
>
>
> William
>
>
>
>
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