Now FEMA Is Insisting On Windows

Janina Sajka janina at rednote.net
Wed Sep 7 09:51:40 EDT 2005


Not that this is by any means the most serious problem over at the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but it's bad enough:

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/06/fema_to_mac_linux_us.html

As someone there points out, this requirement for MS IE 6 is very likely
also a violation of Federal law--the Sec. 508 requirements of PL
105-220:

http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/508/508law.html

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