{"id":361,"date":"2017-09-30T18:12:23","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T23:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/?p=361"},"modified":"2019-09-20T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T13:41:47","slug":"microsoft-requires-disabled-to-have-email-and-cell-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/2017\/09\/30\/microsoft-requires-disabled-to-have-email-and-cell-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft requires disabled man to have email &#038; cell phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I helped an old man who wanted help restoring Windows 10 to his laptop that his kid gave him. The hard drive was broken and needed replacing.<\/p>\n<p>The install went fine until Microsoft asked for an email account. He does not want to receive any emails from anyone but family so I gave it a test domain email address to use, and then it came to needing to send a text to his cell phone on order for them to be able to verify who he was. We entered his number, which is not a cell phone and cannot receive texts and that was the end of the install.<\/p>\n<p>They try to send you a text which you are then supposed to enter into the computer. But without the ability to receive texts you are left out. There was no way of moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like a dangerous road where they are limiting people with disabilities just because they are not fully on-board with technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>microsoft install requires email and cell phone for disabled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-101","category-legal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.szmidt.org\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}