- From: david poehlman <david.poehlman@handsontechnologeyes.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 07:45:39 -0500
- To: "John Carpenter" <John.Carpenter@pdms.com>, "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Guys, This is great info, I agree with david that the hack of tricking the server into thinking you are ie does not serve the purpose of sending the right signal although I do admit that for the user, it can be a user. If you all can, I'd like urls so I don't have to go hunting them. Thanks! Johnnie Apple Seed ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Carpenter" <John.Carpenter@pdms.com> To: "wai-ig list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:36 AM Subject: RE: accessible banking: I use Lloyds TSB online banking with Opera 7.5 and have never had any problems. (Sorry Francois - I sent this to you personally first time by mistake!) _____ From: Francois Jordaan [mailto:Francois.Jordaan@wheel.co.uk] Sent: 01 February 2005 12:31 To: 'david poehlman'; wai-ig list Subject: RE: accessible banking: Hi David, Here in the UK, I have internet banking accounts with the following banks: Lloyds TSB, Nationwide, Smile, Abbey, Woolwich and Barclays (As someone with an interest in web application design, I never close any accounts I no longer use, but keep them open for research purposes.) Admittedly, I've only ever used any of them with IE on Windows. The UK bank that has made the biggest strides towards accessibility is Nationwide. This is to be expected, as it was done under the auspices of Ian Lloyd, a member of WaSP and founder of Accessify.com. He has spoken widely about his work at Nationwide: http://www.usabilitynews.com/news/article917.asp http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2003/08/27/standards_de/ Compared with the banks I list above, I found Nationwide's online banking by far the best designed, although it still lacks many obvious accessibility improvements. I have just successfully logged on using Firefox, without any alerts or warnings. Everything seems to function properly. Their demo is a proper sandbox account, so you can go and test it for yourself with the browser of your choice: http://www.nationwide.co.uk/Demos/InternetBankingDemo/default.htm I also logged on to Woolwich using Firefox. It doesn't give any warnings, but doesn't appear to function properly. (The online banking app is built in entirely in JavaScript, though, so I don't expect great accessibility.) Their browser recommendations are for IE only, they make no guarantees for other browsers. I don't have logins for the other banks handy here at work; if anyone's curious let me know and I can test whether they support Firefox. Hope that helps. francois Wheel Group, Beaumont House, Kensington Village, Avonmore Road, London W14 8TS T +44 (0)20 7348 1000 F +44 (0)20 7348 1111 D +44 (0)20 7348 1049 francois.jordaan@wheel.co.uk www.wheel.co.uk _____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for viruses by MCI's Internet Managed Scanning Services - powered by MessageLabs. For further information visit http://www.mci.com
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