I don't use mlb, though if they make it accessible, I may.
However, I have the same gripe you do. My online university at
http://www.ctuonline.edu has various checks throught their site to
see if you're using ie5 or better. If not, it won't load the page.
There's absolutely nothing on the page requiring ie, so I haven't a
clue why the do the check, and I can bypass it by going directly to
the page in question, but it's extremely irritating.
And the biggest problem I have with them is their silly flash
embeding of text. Why the heck would you take something perfectly
accessible w/no problems, wrap it in flash, and turn it into
something only 1 or two screen readers can access? This is just
stupid not to mention a waste of cpu time. It's making me think I'm
going to need to withdraw and wait until next semester starting in
mid june just so I can have the time to get a winblows machine
working. *growl*
And that's running into a whole new set of problems, since I bought
the machine as a server, and dell refuses to support xp on it since
it shipped with redhat, and they recomend win 2003 server anyhow, not
xp. I've still not found all the drivers I need, most notably of
which is the network drivers for the built-in gigabit ethernet port.
<sigh>
Why are things so darn difficult when they don't have to be?
Anyhow, I'm done, sorry for the rant.
On Apr 13, 2006, at 8:39 AM, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
It really gripes me when something is accessible and a company goes
and makes changes to limit the access!!! This is really true of
mlb; first they fixed it so you apparently have to use wmp rather
than realplayer and somewhere along the way they made it
inaccessible for freedombox; now they are making it difficult for
anybody who doesn't use their chosen browsers!!!! They've now
apparently put in a check of your browser. Now, before you can
listen to a game, EVERY TIME you go to listen to a game, you get
this stupid warning that they've detected you are using a browser
that isn't fully supported by MLB and you are admonished that you
could use IE or firefox, which of course we can't. Each time, you
have to hit a "proceed" button to continue; what a pain!!!
On top of that, I can't figure out how to access 2006 archives; if
anybody has figured this out I'd be interested in knowing about it.
Now when you go to "on demand" the popup menu appears only to
contain 2005. I know 2006 archives exist because if I go to a link
for the previous day before they change the day's links I can get
the archive. Anybody solved this?
--
Cheryl
"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also".
