ot: bank of america accessibility revisited

[Cheryl Homiak]

I got online banking working yesterday using freedombox. It turns out that 
the block was that it apparently asks you to agree to the service terms 
again after you've enrolled or else the consent didn't go through 
previously and there seems to be no way to do this in our text browsers. 
Once I did this I was able to use online banking in freedombox 
with the exception that there's some kind of glitch with downloading the 
statements and I ended up with the download website instead. but I was 
able to get my statements by going to the printable version and using 
freedombox's cut-and-paste option. Viewing current activity, searching, 
setting up email alerts, all seem to work. I haven't tried billpay yet 
since most of my bills are done on checkfree.

Of more general importance is the fact that, once I got past the consent 
block using freedombox, I was also able to use the online banking with 
lynx the cat and modified user agent; it also seems to work for everything 
I've 
tried and it downloaded my statement just fine; btw, there is an option 
for a text format statement which many banks don't give you. I haven't 
tried this in links the chain but assume it would probably work there 
also.


-- 
Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."