MS only e-government

[Antti.Roppola at brs.gov.au]

Alex Satrapa wrote:

>  From what I can read (and especially given the sentiment expressed by an 
> "accessibility" website that uses graphics for navigation), the 
> Government Accessibility requirements are simply that you try to make 
> the site accessible if you can afford to (and guess what the answer to 
> that is?)

How ironic...

"We will spend money to do the site entirely in Flash because doing
it in text is too expensive.."

> If the Government only cares enough for blind people to fork out $1.5M, 
> how much are they going to care about a bunch of recalcitrant hippies 
> who use Linux?

Exactly, but I think in this instance, the Linux hippies and blind folk
have a common interest. Plus the many people out there who cannot afford
to run the latest and greatest.

Antti