[gui-talk] Unable to Access Target.com web Site Using IE 8 With XP

[David Andrews]

Well, I suspect this is either some sort of error, or something more 
complicated then your message implies.  I just accessed Target.com 
with Internet Explorer 8.  Granted, I have JAWS 13 and Windows 7.  I 
don't know if those things make a difference -- but JAWS 9 is pretty 
old, and XP is getting a little long in the tooth.

Have you tried contacting Target.  As I said this may be more 
complicated then straight IE8 and you seem pretty quick to blame the 
NFB here.

Dave

At 04:31 PM 11/12/2012, you wrote:

>I want to get a head start on my holiday shopping.  But using 
>Internet Explorer 8 with XP Pro and JAWS 9, I get the following 
>message when I try to access the Target.com home page at www.target.com:
>
>Problems viewing Target.com ?
>
>Target Home Page
>
>Problems viewing Target.com ?
>It's because your browser isn't supported. Upgrade to one of the 
>latest versions listed below to get the most out of your Target.com experience.
>list of 3 items
>Click here to download Internet Explorer
>Click here to download Mozilla Firefox
>Click here to download Google Chrome
>list end
>
>According to Microsoft, IE 8 is the latest version of IE that is 
>supported by XP; it does not support IE 9, which is only supported 
>by Windows 7 and 8.  Contrary to popular belief, XP is alive and 
>well and still used by millions of people worldwide, blind and 
>sighted alike.  A few years ago, the NFB successfully sued Target to 
>force them to make its web site more blind friendly.  But now, 
>apparently, thousands of blind computer users who still rely on XP 
>and IE 8 may not be able to access the Target.com site any longer 
>unless they upgrade to IE 9 with Windows 7 or 8, or install Firefox, 
>which has a lot of compatibility problems with JAWS, or Google 
>Chrome, which is still totally inaccessible with JAWS.  Is the NFB 
>aware of this situation?  It seems to me that they have a 
>responsibility to ensure that the Target site remains accessible to 
>all blind computer users, regardless of which browser they are 
>using, because they were the ones who made such a big stink over 
>this issue in the first place.
>
>         Gerald