Re: online accessibility
Rick Miles <[email protected]>
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Leon Blakeley is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says! <snip> > > How many ISP's won't talk to you if you're not operating in a windows > environment? That must be in the same category! From a business standpoint it's easy to give a few hours seminar and a bunch of laminated do this/do thats to call center staff if you have only two or three versions of windows to deal with but you'd be opening a can of worms and need to pay a bit more to get someone who Understands and can ask questions like have you checked your permissions for /dev modem?, what does /dev/modem point to, are you using script the ppp-on script or kppp to dial up? etc. etc. Yes it marginalises some people to not provide technical support for windows or maybe even mac users, but how many retirees and folk not so well off may not have enough money to buy a PC with enough grunt for XP/IE-6.0 (and you can't go out and buy 95 or 98 for that old 64 Mb P3. Yet businesses like the Commonwealth who are encouraging people to use online services are paying people who should know better but are putting together websites that are "certified to operate with Microsoft Internet Explorer only" That's lame as far as I'm concerned. How difficult is it to also check and see if something is WC3 compliant and can run in other browsers. It'd make me look twice at any business (or bank) that declares that their website will run on any browser and any system and I've been considering moving away from Commonwealth for some other reasons anyway. -- Cheers, Rick Miles Movement stopped is no movement, and rest set in motion is no rest. Written on Setting Orange, the 66th of Bureaucracy, 3171 http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~rickfrm/