[access-uk] Re: slightly awkward but temperary way around booking a delivery slot with sainsbury

  • From: David W Wood <g3yxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 23:01:02 +0100

Hello Pete

fortunately you have had time to find a solution with aid of JAWS

have they liaised with V.I. Users of the site regarding the
accessibility issues?
If answer is no, then:
bring to attention of the site designer and R.N.I.B.

David


In message <200408122212260796.02E2169F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, PETE gurney
<pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>hello all,
>
>having pointed out the problem with the page for selecting a delivery slot
>on the sainsbury website yesterday, i've been playing around on it and
>found a way around the problem.
>its quite easy if your booking a delivery during the coming week of the day
>your doing it, but more long winded if your wanting to select a delivery
>more than 7 days in advance.
>this is down to the fact that sainsbur's look as if in just over a weeks
>time they are going to allow you to choose a delivery in either one or two
>hour segmonts.
>thus for the next week there are only 6 time slots to choose from each day,
>but when i booked a slot for13 days time there are 18 time slots to choose
>from each day.
>the way to get the time slot and day you want during the next week is to
>follow this example.
>all the listings are in order starting with the day after the actual day
>your on their website, so presuming its this evening your on there, the
>page will look like this:
>friday 13 08
>saturday 14 08
>sunday 15 08
>monday 16 08
>tuesday 17 08
>wednesday 18 08
>thurs 19 08
>10 am 12 pm
>12 pm 2 pm
>2 pm 4 pm
>4 pm 6 pm
>6 pm 8 pm
>8 pm 10 pm
>next there will be 42 lines of the page each with either just the letter x
>on it or the link booktime.
>they are in the following order.
>the  lines 1 through 7 are the 10 am 12 pm slots for the next 7 days 
>the lines 8 through 14 are the 12 pm 2 pm slots for the next 7 days.
>and so on with each time slot grouped together covering 7 lines.
>so if you want to book for next wednesday with a time slot of 12 pm 2 pm.
>this would be the sixth day in the second time slot, so if there is a link
>called booktime on the thirteenth line this would be the one you need.
>don't forget to count the lines with just a letter x on them as well as the
>ones that are a link.
>the principle is the same if you want to book for more than a week in
>advance, but when you click on week two instead of having 42 lines of x's
>and links there will be 126 of them because of there being 18 different
>time slots to choose from.
>at the bottom of this message i have put a list of the 18 time slots in the
>order they appear.
>i'm sorry this has been rather long, but it may help someone to order their
>shopping who doesn't have an alternitive.
>
>pete.
>
>10am-11am
>10am-12pm
>11am-12pm
>12pm-1pm
>12pm-2pm
>1pm-2pm
>2pm-3pm
>2pm-4pm
>3pm-4pm
>4pm-5pm
>4pm-6pm
>5pm-6pm
>6pm-7pm
>6pm-8pm
>7pm-8pm
>8pm-9pm
>8pm-10pm
>9pm-10pm
>   
>  
>
> slot      
>
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