Absa tried instituting their new site the first time a couple of months ago - at which point it also crashed repeatedly... I think they're having a bit of a bad patch. Toni Kruger freeflyflow.design Cell: +27 83 387 0815 www.freeflyflowdesign.co.za A member of: www.consultwomen.co.za "Our listening creates a sanctuary for the homeless parts within another person." Rachel Naomi Remen "Sun is shining, weather is sweet, Makes you want to move your dancing feet..." Marley - "Sun is shining" On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Jacob Kruger <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ** > I have also sent them a slightly more formal e-mail as well, but, since > roundabout this week sometime, when you log on to absa internet banking > site, immediately after entering the necessary password characters, it > loads a frame where you're meant to choose whether to go to the new version > of the site, or the old version, which took me the need to go read the > graphical link name by character/letter to figure out what the two links > meant, since they have no alt tags assigned, and if you then hit > enter/click on the link for the old version of the site it works fine, but, > if I try hitting enter on the link for the new version of the site, to try > it out, using internet explorer 8, it notified me something about an ajax > frame, activated application mode, and then internet explorer itself > crashed, and tried to recover, but ended up being sort of automatically > rerouted to a page saying something along the lines of - you have been > logged out - thanks for using absa. > > Either way, seems they've given up on providing a fully worthwhile service > for us, and would guess for all sighted users as well, since think that > browser crash might in fact happen to people not using a screen reader if > they're not using like internet explorer 9 or something. > > Will try it out a bit later, with like firefox 14, or something to see > what happens then, but, any other regular users might as well also give it > a try, and if works the same for you, do us a favour, and send the > complaint e-mail to absa themselves. > > That e-mail address is: > ib@xxxxxxxxxx > > Stay well > > Jacob Kruger > Blind Biker > Skype: BlindZA > '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' >