From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au (outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.109]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id D68ECC1A30B for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:48:17 -0400 (EDT) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAGpXP0zLzsVj/2dsb2JhbACfa3G+aIFvZoJPBIN8hFSCQA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.55,212,1278259200"; d="scan'208";a="134828232" Received: from unknown (HELO gotss1.gotss.net) ([203.206.197.99]) by outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out6.iinet.net.au with ESMTP/TLS/AES256-SHA; 16 Jul 2010 09:48:14 +0800 Received: from [192.168.25.14] by gotss1.gotss.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OZa29-0006M2-Py for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:48:13 +0800 Message-ID: <4C3FBA5C.60702@gotss.net> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:48:12 +0800 From: Kerry Hoath User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: ot: on line banking? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:48:18 -0000 Regardless of W3c guidelines business will drive the demands and provisioning of online banking. It is often necessary to do input validation on form input as it saves processing time on the loaded banking site. A browser must thereby support javascript in order to achieve this. This includes the ability to pop up dialog boxes or a textual equivalent. Browser must also support persistent cookies and ssl. Some bank sites also require users to click on numbers on a keypad or select them with a keyboard to defeat key loggers etc. If banking sites move towards capchas then image display/ocr options will be necessary. If banking under Linux I'd suggest Orca and firefox. Otherwise a windows Machine/virtual machine with Windows NVDA and firefox/internet explorer works well. Firefox works extremely well with NVDA. Failing those options getting a Mac also works with the majority of online bank sites. Banks will serve the majority of their customers and for the time being that is Windows and Mac users. With the proliferation of Flash, Javascript, capchas and Ajax I moved to browsing the web primarily under Windows since 1999. There may be hope however if your bank provides a mobile site, as these rely far less on complex web technologies. Regards, Kerry. On 16/07/2010 7:00 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > firefox not withstanding, bank does not support it anyway, how are > those of you working largely in text managing on line banking if at all? > Thanks, > Karen > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup