Re: online accessibility

Geoffrey Scott is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
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> If you are talking about accessability for disabled people and you want
> to follow some guidelines probably the UK laws and guidelines that
> govern accessability will help you to design a site that covers the
> usage by blind people etc. That's if yu are interested in avoiding any
> problems in the future caused by legislation brought in by the Aus gov.
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I'm looking at this in terms of restriction of access there are some 
quidelines regarding the disabled that apply/imply what I'm concerned with 
but they don't discuss restriction of access by certifying that website works 
with MS IE only. To quote Commonwealth Bank when I asked:

"NetBank is certified to operate with Microsoft Internet Explorer 
only.  Whilst we do not currently offer any form of technical support for the 
browser you currently use, other customers have been successful accessing 
NetBank using browsers other than NetBank supported browsers.  If you do 
experience access difficulties whilst using your browser, we recommend you 
use Internet Explorer on your PC to view NetBank."

That doesn't help the retiree who can afford to buy a $250.00 used PC but not 
an MS operating system, if indeed he/she can legally buy one that runs on an 
older machine. So with linux installed they may or may not be able to bank 
et. al. online if they can figure out how to change their user agent settings 
which may or may not help in some instances.

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Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

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