[Gllug] EU council streaming petition

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 06:12:30AM +0100, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Martin A. Brooks schrieb:
> 
> > We're not talking about software. We're talking about an objection to
> > publicly funded AV streams only being available in a disagreeable
> > format.  One that's perfectly decodeable on the platform in question.
> > 
> 
> As "e-Government" starts to gain speed, I see more and more governments
> around here placing documents on their web site using, say, *.doc or
> *.xls documents - of course, this is something you "might" be able to
> perfectly work with using OpenOffice.org and friends, but you can't be
> sure of that as there still are minor incompatibilities. There also are

The weapon that might be usable against these sites is the disability access
legislation.

> governmental web sites in Germany that require you to run some MSIE
> variant to access them - surely you can come over most of these things
> using some tool to switch your browser identification, and you see that
> most of the site works. Does _all_ of it work? Will it _always_ be there
> for you whenever you need it, using a platform that is not "officially"
> supported?

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