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From: Dean.Vasile
Date: Jul 5, 2023 6:10AM

David
I eliminated your name on this email and I copied it and I pasted it to my Facebook page.
Because I feel that the position that this company is taking is unacceptable.
Thank you for taking the first steps.

Dean Vasile


617-799-1162

> On Jul 5, 2023, at 7:35 AM, David Russell < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> This week, I have been in correspondence with a Social Media website
> representative from Minds.com. The issue at hand is completing the
> registration process with keyboard only.
> I am pasting his response in part below, to inject the idea that
> addressing access concerns to some may be based on the number of
> requests for such to be provided.
> Response From Minds Staff
> Using shift and tab+shift seems to scroll up and down through the
> various input fields on the registration page, though curiously it
> does look like the checkboxes for our terms are never highlighted, and
> I can't find a way to check them. Unfortunately though, and I'm just
> going to be blunt and honest with you about this: I don't think this
> is an issue with enough urgency for our development team. You are the
> first person in 10k+ tickets to ever write to us with a keyboard-only
> setup.
>
>
> Note: I did suggest that their posture on access would eliminate
> possible audience for Minds.com.