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Electronic Voting: "Visually Impared"

I don't make these things up. Really. The Irish government's website pushing electronic voting now has a link on its front page to a "Visually Impared / Text Version". Yes, "impared".

Exactly how are we supposed to trust the code of a new electronic voting system being imposed on the electorate when even fundamental bits of its website have such awful spelling mistakes? Answers on a postcard please.
Posted by mick cunningham at February 23, 2004 12:14 AM | Email a friend this entry | TrackBack

And besides having crap metadata, ironically when it comes to accessibility issues the site fails big-time on the "bobby" front. See

Posted by: Micko at February 23, 2004 12:25 AM

Some people might find that the above url might bugger up in the comment window - simply go to http://bobby.watchfire.com/bobby/html/en/index.jsp and type in the www.electronicvoting.ie url...

Posted by: Micko at February 23, 2004 12:28 AM

thank god they're clueless about the web too - it means people are less likely to find it in Google

Posted by: activa at February 24, 2004 12:01 PM