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and in my experience anyhow, i swore after i replied to them with my 
callsign, it was less than 10 minutes until i got the account email

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: another qrz.com question


> unlike most sites, yahoo for example and I think ebay, qrz will help if 
> you
> send them an email asking them to.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Edward alonzo" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 11:06 PM
> Subject: Re: another qrz.com question
>
>
>>I wrote them a very nasty e-mail and it as as follows.
>>
>> Message
>> hello to all concerned. I just became a new operator, and went to set up
>> a qrz account so I could put information about myself and just have an
>> account
>> in general.
>> I'm a totally blind ham operator, and when I got to the form to fill
>> out, you've got a security box that has letters that you have to see on
>> the screen
>> and type it into a box.
>> This is not possible with out an audio link.
>> If there was an audio link that read the letters, then we could input
>> them into the box using our screen reader technology.
>> Is there any way around this problem for other blind ham users that wish
>> to create an account?
>> This is getting to be a huge problem with many websites as they are
>> trying to prevent spammers from signing up with fake accounts, how ever,
>> it is making
>> it very difficult for blind users to access information and create
>> accounts with out the assistance of a sighted coworker or family member.
>> all these companies or organizations need to do, is make an audio link
>> google had such a problem and after the blind community haggled them
>> over it and
>> gave them a sign partition, they finally got there buts off the ground
>> and did something about it!
>> Just a suggestion, to put an audio link in place so that other blind or
>> low vision users don't have this problem.
>> Please get back with me and let me know if there is anything that we can
>> do so that we can also create our own accounts without sighted
>> assistance.
>> Thanks.
>> Edward Alonzo
>> Edward Fernando Alonzo and Holly Gail Alonzo To People in love and
>> happily Married!
>> check out my pod cast at:
>> http://blinddoubletrouble.webhop.org
>> to subscribe to it put:
>> http://feeds.feedburner.com/bdt
>> into your pod catching client
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: For blind ham radio operators
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christopher Moore
>> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2006 14:00
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: another qrz.com question
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>> I attempted to register on qrz.com but was thwarted by one of those
>> security code problems.  You're supposed to enter a code shown in a box
>> on the screen.  Gues I'll have to wait for sighted help.   So much for
>> accessible web sites <grin>.
>>
>> 73
>> Chris w1gm
>>
> 

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