Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/12/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I've forwarded the note to the legal-internal list, the private ASF legal list, and cc'ed Andrea, I'd recommend that, as non-lawyers, we do not comment at all on legal side of this. Yes, but on the practical side, complaining on a website without telling us which

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Aleksei wrote: you are in violation of my civil rights as defined by US law. have i got you attention? i recently upgraded from open office 3.3 to open office Apache 3.4.1. it is an absolute disaster. i am visually disabled and Dyslexic. i ABSOLUTELY NEED a functional spelling check to do my work

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On 12/10/2012 11:15 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Aleksei wrote: you are in violation of my civil rights as defined by US law. have i got you attention? Actually, your rhetoric probably turned off most people on this mailing list who otherwise might have wanted to hel

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > I must say, I never thought the congress of 1973 had it in them, to > pass a law regulating spellcheckers for word processing packages > operating on PCs, none of which existed then. What forward-thinking > people. > I've forwarded the not

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Donald Whytock
I must say, I never thought the congress of 1973 had it in them, to pass a law regulating spellcheckers for word processing packages operating on PCs, none of which existed then. What forward-thinking people. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Stan Helton wrote: > You do realize you addressing an

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Stan Helton
You do realize you addressing an international community of VOLUNTEERS, right? I, for one, would not help you after that little outburst if you were drowning in quicksand. Stan On 12/10/2012 12:24 PM, Aleksei wrote: you are in violation of my civil rights as defined by US law. have i got yo

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Aleksei wrote: > you are in violation of my civil rights as defined by US law. > have i got you attention? Actually, your rhetoric probably turned off most people on this mailing list who otherwise might have wanted to help you. If that is the kind of attention y