HollyAlonzo – Never Giving Up Hope

I do not know why things have to be so difficult.  I have been trying to sign up for a MySpace account.  All of my highschool friends eem to be on there and nowhere else.  So I decided I would finally sign up.

Huge problem!  While signing up it asks for me for stupid verification code.  There is no audio link for this and even if there was, my hearing is too bad.  So I emailed them and asked them how they suppose I get an account set up if I can’t do the verification code?

I never got a response back from them so I had a sighted friend help me with this.  She set the account up.  Great, then I got an email to confirm it.  I clicked on the link in the email…

Yet another verification.  Just great.  So yet again, I have her click the link in the confirmation email.  She enter the verification and is able to log in and out of my account with no more verifications.

So I am all excited now, it’s going to work!

Wrong!  It asks me for an evil verification code.  So I have another friend log in, and she gets the verification request too but once she does that then she doesn’t have to do it again.  So it appears to be that when you try to log in from a different computer, a verification code is needed.

I finally heard back from MySpace and I seriously think they need to get a dictionary and go over the definition for “blind”.

They tell me that captias are there for a reason to prevent spam.  Also I can change it one I log into my account, that captias are needed to comment, add a friend, and so on.  But if another person has their settings that captia is needed to add them, then I would still have to do the captia.  I just “need to read it slowly and type carefully.”

So there is a program for the visually impaired that works with Firefox and will help solve a captia.  It is called Webvisum  So I get that all installed and that is a headache within itself because of cookies.  So I get it all set up and go to log in to my account that a friend created.

Verification.  Got it, my program solved the captia and I pasted it in the box.  It went to another page, but nothing was different.  It was just asking for verification again.  It didn’t give me an error, but it didn’t let me in either.

Cancel an account and set up an account again.  In order to cancel you must click on a link in an email and that blasted thing wanted a verification code as well.

I tried to create an account with another email that I have.  All is well until it gets to the verification code.  Even though I have a code and put it in, it will not let me create, log in, cancel, anything.

This is wrong on so many levels.  How is MySpace allowed to get away with this?  Blind people, and there are quite a few of us, have the right to create an account to.  One of the things that every place tells you is do not give out your password.  Well in order for a blind person to either get an account created or need help within the account, we must give our password to someone.  I trust the person I used.  But what if she ever decided to get mad at me and log into my account and do stuff?  This would not happen, because I trust the person, but I am just saying what if.

Do any of you think this is right?  So now I can not get an account on MYSpace and I don’t know what to do.  I am just extremely irritated at the moment and if they had a phone number I would call them and tell them all about it.  But they only seem to do email which takes two days for them to get back with you.

MySpace is being pure evil to me.