[LINK] Inaccessible web sites

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ivan Trundle wrote:
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> I use the Telstra mobile phone billing page as a perfect example: I refuse to accept online billing and metering system until their website can deliver the same level of clarity as their paper product or the iPhone app that a third party has developed. It no longer matters to me that they can't make a site that I can comfortably use, even though I am literate, able, sighted and a veteran internet user.
> 

Curious as other mobile operators have been at the forefront 
of electronic billing.

Just thinking about the implications of this for the wider 
group of Telstra customers: I have been forced to use the 
Telstra site to view details of calls from my home phone 
line, which without notice, that I read, Telstra decided to 
drop from my paper bill. This on top of the fees to pay the 
Telstra bill, it would seem that Telstra has cottoned onto 
the Banks model for "service" charges.

> Another example is the 40 million iPhone/iPod touch users who cannot view Flash at all: either the site designer makes a site that detects their browser and delivers, or the site is shunned. Adobe tried to demonstrate to the public that 85% of the top 100 sites required Flash, yet failed to mention that almost all of them all offer non-Flash alternatives (which demonstrates that site designers will shift to where the market is, not that people will shift to what sites offer).
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Ahh but flash is OK, for us Linux users. Though after 
installing the flash plug in I have now installed the 
Firefox plugin to block flash.

I advocate the use of Ogg/Theora - available across all 
platforms.

Marghanita
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