IK>> Can you see a governmental body make a change just to please the citizen IK>> (rather than to please the superiors)?
In such simple case as this (needs just removing silly blocking javascript), it probably would be done if the email reaches the right person in the GB. In more complicated cases, it depends. Usually such change means they need to go to the site designers - which are usually some external company, chosen somewhere is the past for reasons hardky including Web standards compliance, unless the person in charge in the GB is uncommonly enlightened. Now, the site designers had already received their money, so they would either say it's impossible to make it better, or would require some additional sum of money - probably a substantial sum, why not, they do not have to compete anymore at this stage of the game. Usually, the person in chage in GB does not possess the expertise to know if the change is as complicated as design company claims or costs as much as they ask. So either he would - on his own risk - convince his superiors to allocate the additional budget - for improving the apparently working site - in which case advocacy could help, or he would pressure the design company into doing it with lower (or null) cost, arguing the web standards support is so important that any site not providing it is in fact malfunctioning. And here advocacy is even more important, since before convincing anybody about that would require the person in charge - again, probably not a very technical person - to be convinced. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/ There shall be counsels taken Stanislav Malyshev /\ Stronger than Morgul-spells phone +972-66-524945 /\ JRRT LotR. whois:!SM8333 ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
