Yes, I think I saw the same problem you ran into. In selecting any one of the providers they list you are first taken to adisclaimer page that says, in
far too many words and under far too many navbar links, "you're now leaving the IRS site." Link #30 is the actual link to continue, labeled something
like "Yes, I really do want to leave the IRS site." It is written with jsp syntax, so breaks in lynx. Why did they use jsp? It seems so that they can
track that you really did mean to leave, itself a disturbing bit of data collection. When this scriptlet breaks, you get an error page that says
essentially "an error occurred. If this problem persists, please report it" and offers a link for reporting (also link #30).
I followed that link and wrote the following:
>From janina@afb.net Wed Apr 10 12:56:47 2002
From: janina@afb.net
Hello:
Please remove jsp from your redirects. This blocks users with browsers that do not support jsp, or who do not wish to use it, from the benefits of the links you provide. Please note that we at the American Foundation for the Blind would consider this a Section 508 violation, so I would appreciate a direct and substantive response to this note.
>From a technical perspective, you don't need jsp to achieve the purpose of redirecting, so it shouldn't be mandatory. And, it does impede access by those of us using open source tools on linux.
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On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi Janina.
> Where did you file your section 508 complaint?
> I suspect the answer you will get will partly have to do with the providers not
> being their responsibility, but the site certainly is. On most of my tries, I
> got errors just trying to leave the site after reading the irs disclaimer.
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American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
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