[WSIS CS-Plenary] UN Official Document System is online

[Rik Panganiban]

Agreed. We need to see that there is a plan to address these problems. 
I will communicate this to the Department of Public Information and try 
to find the proper technical person we can provide further feedback to.

Rik Panganiban

On Jan 7, 2005, at 10:48 AM, Vittorio Bertola wrote:

> Il giorno gio, 06-01-2005 alle 14:25 -0500, Rik Panganiban ha scritto:
>> I have confirmed same result on the Mac (OS X 10.3) using Netscape,
>> Firefox and Mozilla.  You double-click any of the query results, which
>> returns the javascript message.  Then you hit the "back" button to go
>> back to the search results, and all of the query results appear to
>> actually work.
>>
>> Still doesn't work with Safari, or IE.  But explorer for the Mac is
>> very old (2001), so not too surprising.
>>
>> All in all, perhaps this is less problematic than we had initially
>> feared if it works with the different flavors of Netscape.
>
> But no sane person would ever *double-click* on a link - if you click
> only once, as you normally do, it does not work (at least with Firefox
> 0.9.3 on Ubuntu Linux, which is what I have here now). No one would 
> ever
> think of double-clicking... let alone of then going back and trying
> again.
>
> So I'd still say that the current site configuration is totally
> unacceptable. We should be asking for a clear plan to fix all these
> different errors and make the site accessible (including accessibility
> in W3C terms): actually, I don't think that it takes more than a few
> hours of work to make the site compatible with most browsers, so rather
> than mounting up campaigns we should encourage them to do so promptly.
> -- 
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