From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 28 12:51:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4F0F37B40A for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:51:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 56492 invoked by uid 100); 28 Sep 2001 19:51:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15284.54487.842502.135450@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:51:51 -0500 To: Bill Schoolcraft Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Denied for not using Microsoft OS In-Reply-To: <25489752@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Schoolcraft types: > Hello Family, > > About 3 months ago I ordered some business cards for myself from > Vistaprint.com for they offered FREE cards but the tiny logo was on > the back of the cards, small price for the cards and not a problem > is you have a bottle of "white out" (not that I did that) but upon > going back to the site after a SPAM from them to check it out I got > this URL. What in the world was the System_Administrator thinking > of when they made their decision on what OS to honor ?? They weren't thinking. That's the problem. Building a working cross-platform web site requires the abililty to think. About the level of a bright fourth grader, but it does require that much. See to read about the myth of the supported browser. As a final note, if such a site is run by an agency of one of the US governments, or an organization that receives funding from such, they are in violation of the ADA. If the government in question is the feds, they are violating federal policy. The question of whether or not commercial web sites doing this are violating the ADA is still open, as it's not yet clear that a web site qualifies as a public place under the terms of the ADA. However, it should be noted that AOL chose to provide an accessible site rather than finish a court fight about it when they were sued by the National Federation for the Blind. Bleah, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Q: How do you make the gods laugh? A: Tell them your plans. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message