On Sat, Jan 12, 2008, Shachar Raindel wrote about "Accessible government sites - is it so?": > While surfing the ministry of transportation site, I tried to access > their online forms (for example: > http://forms.gov.il/forms/mot/licensing/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > I was surprised to find out that: > > A. it required accessing using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows based OS > - what should people who use non-Microsoft based OS do in such case? >...
I can (barely) understand ignorant web designers who simply don't know that anything other than IE exists. What drives me crazy are those who know that other browsers exist, and delibrately choose to screw them. One such example of a government site I saw was the airport authority's site (www.iaaa.gov.il). The site mostly appear to work well, and even the fancy Javascript menus work on Firefox. Until you try to go to the section 99% of this site's users come from: the flight schedule. When I tried it a few days ago, instead of the result list, I got a "This site was designed for IE 5.5 and above" message. How hard would it have been to show the search results instead of this stupid message??? If everything in the site's interactive Javascript trickery works on Firefox, what could be so fancy about the flight list (most likely, a simply textual list) that couldn't be properly displayed on Firefox? Finally, if you know that non-IE browsers exist, how hard was it to try them, instead of programming in a special "screw you" message for the users of these browsers? -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Jan 13 2008, 6 Shevat 5768 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |Happiness isn't getting what you want, http://nadav.harel.org.il |it's wanting what you've got. _______________________________________________ Discussions mailing list [email protected] http://hamakor.org.il/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discussions
