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

[David Andrews]

Gerald:

A couple more thoughts.  First, while IE isn't as dominant as it once 
was, it still has 40 or 50 percent of market I think, and IE 8 has to 
be a sizable percentage of that.  So it is hard to believe Target 
would give up that much potential customers.

Secondly, maybe something is set in your browser that gets it 
identified incorrectly, javascript or cookies turned off, or security 
level set very high.

Just a couple thoughts.

Dave

At 04:49 PM 11/12/2012, you wrote:
>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