Monday, September 19, 2005
What were they thinking?
I just read the Frank Hayes column in Comuterworld on FEMA's disasteraid site. For some inexplicable reason, FEMA is requiring the use of IE6 to apply for disaster aid. Hayes' article does a good job of blasting FEMA. But I'd like to also add my $.02. In the review process for making this decision (assuming that a review process was used), did they even think of the fact that, in a major disaster, schools are often used as shelters and that many schools have only Apple Macintoshes? Or that a disaster victim may get set up on a low-cost Linux/Firefox PC?
When I went to the FEMA site to check on this myself (posted photo), it turns out that you don't even see the browser compability error until you are already three screens into the process! ΒΆ 12:12 PM 0 comments
I just read the Frank Hayes column in Comuterworld on FEMA's disasteraid site. For some inexplicable reason, FEMA is requiring the use of IE6 to apply for disaster aid. Hayes' article does a good job of blasting FEMA. But I'd like to also add my $.02. In the review process for making this decision (assuming that a review process was used), did they even think of the fact that, in a major disaster, schools are often used as shelters and that many schools have only Apple Macintoshes? Or that a disaster victim may get set up on a low-cost Linux/Firefox PC?
When I went to the FEMA site to check on this myself (posted photo), it turns out that you don't even see the browser compability error until you are already three screens into the process! ΒΆ 12:12 PM 0 comments
