Yahoo!'s Accessibility Improvement
Hello Yahoo! management team,As a blind user, who accesses the internet via screen reading programs, I found it difficult to create my Yahoo! account, and ended up asking a sighted person for help, si... continue reading »
"Although i am a fully sighted person, i believe that blind people should have free and unrestricted access to the internet as all of the fully sighted people of the world have. More over, if Yahoo is such a big and prospering company, why haven't they mad"
"As a technology support specialist, and as an individual who works with faculty and students using screen reading programs, I agree and have signed the petition in question."
"Yahoo, stop wasting time, and start implementing audio captcha, or get rid of it. As others state, programs can crack CAPTCHAS so people who are sightless and low-vision are the only people left to wait for a phone call that won't come from your stupid su"
"I don't want sales people to contact me"
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"I have a daughter that has vision issues. This would help many peolple that I know personally."
"This is a problem that way to many times effects those of us who simply want fair and equal access to the same information as the sighted world has."
"My son should be able to sign up for things without asking for help - other websites do make this available."
"I applaud your efforts. I had exactly the same problem with Yahoo. Thanks for taking a stand. Yahoo, follow the same path as google and paypal. Make an audio file with available for the blind/visually impaired. This way, it will be equal for everyone."
"yahoo only friendly to sighted people"
"Yahoo is the only major Internet service which has not implemented a link to hear the numbers to type in. When I call the number provided, no one ever calls back and this solution is not acceptable in any case."
"get with it, folks! temporarily abled persons need universal access too."
"I am registered with Yahoo, but wish I could get past the captchas."
"I'm not blind but I do assist a blind friend with this. I don't mind, but shouldn't have to."