[clue] Colorado Income Tax website uses SILVERLIGHT

[Yaverot]

And this is the first time in years that I've had to do my state taxes on paper instead of online, because of this downgrade.

I tried to point out that requiring Silverlight violated 508 accessibility requirements (as a government site), but all the obvious email addresses I tried bounced.


--- obermd at alum.mit.edu wrote:

From: "Michael D. Ober" <obermd at alum.mit.edu>
To: "'CLUE's mailing list'" <clue at cluedenver.org>
Subject: Re: [clue] Colorado Income Tax website uses SILVERLIGHT
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 19:16:12 -0600

Actually this year their software was significantly faster than previous years.  If they’re running Windows Servers (IIS), Silverlight makes sense if the resulting web application runs the same in all the major browsers.  Having filed electronically in Colorado in previous years, this year was a much, much better experience.

 

As a side, hopefully when MS drops support for Windows 2000 this summer they will completely drop support for IE6 at the same time.

 

Mike Ober.

 

From: clue-bounces at cluedenver.org [mailto:clue-bounces at cluedenver.org] On Behalf Of dennisjperkins at comcast.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2011 5:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [clue] Colorado Income Tax website uses SILVERLIGHT

 

If I recall correctly, it was also very slow.

Are Mac users affected too?  Does Silverlight run on a Mac?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Dew" <marcoz at osource.org>
To: "CLUE's mailing list" <clue at cluedenver.org>, lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2011 4:54:37 PM
Subject: [clue] Colorado Income Tax website uses SILVERLIGHT

WTF!?!?!?!

https://www.colorado.gov/revenueonline/

Who do I need to scream at?

I'm serious.  I consider this _COMPLETELY_ _UNACCEPTABLE_. Where do I 
make noise about this?

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