ot: on line banking?

[Kerry Hoath]

Regardless of W3c guidelines business will drive the demands and 
provisioning of online banking.
It is often necessary to do input validation on form input as it saves 
processing time on the loaded banking site. A browser must thereby 
support javascript in order to achieve this. This includes the ability 
to pop up dialog boxes or a textual equivalent.


Browser must also support persistent cookies and ssl.
Some bank sites also require users to click on numbers on a keypad or 
select them with a keyboard to defeat key loggers etc.


If banking sites move towards capchas then image display/ocr options 
will be necessary.

If banking under Linux I'd suggest Orca and firefox.
Otherwise a windows Machine/virtual machine with Windows NVDA and 
firefox/internet explorer works well. Firefox works extremely well with 
NVDA.

Failing those options getting a Mac also works with the majority of 
online bank sites.
Banks will serve the majority of their customers and for the time being 
that is Windows and Mac users.

With the proliferation of Flash, Javascript, capchas and Ajax I moved to 
browsing the web primarily under Windows since 1999.

There may be hope however if your bank provides a mobile site, as these 
rely far less on complex web technologies.
Regards, Kerry.

On 16/07/2010 7:00 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> firefox not withstanding, bank does not support it anyway, how are 
> those of you working largely in text managing on line banking if at all?
> Thanks,
> Karen
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