On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 12:01 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in Ontario, Canada. My credit union, Meridian, only supports > Microsoft Windows and Max OS X for online banking. > https://www.meridiancu.ca/About-Meridian/Privacy-and-Security.aspx under > browser requirements. > > I doubt they have any legal or regulatory obligation to support Linux - > but it's getting to the point where it's almost a necessity to bank > online, especially with COVID-19. I think the government needs to step > in to regulate online banking terms and conditions. > > Any thoughts on legalities?
I find the situation extremely frustrating as well. There may be some legal grounds based on impairments and accessibility. In the US, there are 508E guidelines. Canada may have something similar in place. However, I believe only government sites are required to adhere to 508E guidelines. I do remember a legal case where someone sued a large chain of stores over accessibility (even though it wasn't a government site) and won. You can check with the EFF regarding legal matters. One plus is that many people are no longer using computers and only have phones. So, many banks are offering mobile apps in addition to web access. If a bank offers an Android mobile app, that should make it easier to access the services on Linux systems. There are several projects in the works to run Android on Linux including libhybris. One can also run Android-x86 or other similar Android distributions in an emulator. Replicant might be another option to look into. Only issue might be trying to get the app from the Android Play Store if you don't want Play Store on your system. If you can get the apk file, you can load it directly. _______________________________________________ libreplanet-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libreplanet.org/mailman/listinfo/libreplanet-discuss
