Despite years of complaints, Linkedin, a division of Microsoft, continues to harm the eye and vision health of users of the site, while concurrently mocking any claims by Microsoft parent company owner Bill Gates and other corporate executives to be interested in the privacy, safety and security of Linkedin site users. The linkedin website is completely unreadable, with its profusion of extremely light value, nearly zero contrast type – font and text. There are NO prescriptions for corrective eyewear for light value, extremely light value, low contrast and zero contrast type. Ask ANY optometrist!.
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As Microsoft is headquartered in Redmond, Washington (state), American internet users can file consumer protection complaints (regardless of where one lives or works) with the Consumer Protection Div. of the Washington state Attorney General, Olympia, Washington.
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An example of a website designed with common sense fundamentals of graphic design (with black, high-contrast type) suitable for everyone, with or without corrective eyewear (eyeglasses, contact lenses):
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Eye, vision health agencies (UK, US)
USA
National Institute for the Blind:
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www.sightconnection.org (Seattle)
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Prevent Blindness: A Lifetime of Healthy Vision
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CDC Vision Health Institute
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National Eye Institute – National Institute of Health
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The International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB)
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American Optometric Association
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Vision UK
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National Eye Institute - UK
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International Centre for Eye Health - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
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Sight-savers
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