gov't sponsored site requires proprietary software

[Terrence Enger]

Greetings,

The Ontario Ministry of Culture is sponsoring Ontario Library
Service Download Centre <http://downloadcentre.library.on.ca/>,
which lends out any of a collection of audio books over the net.

Disappointingly, the service works only only with Windows or Mac.
It is perhaps no coincidence that the "guided tour" requires
Adobe Flash, and they use the word "free" only in the
sense "gratis".

<aside>
  Hmm.  Going to the Ministry of Culture home page
  <http://www.culture.gov.on.ca/english/index.html>, the first
  thing I see is a message box telling me "Content on this page
  requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player. Do you want to
  download it now?".  Somewhat peeved now, I take that url to
  validator.w3.org and find--really, I should not have been
  surprised--203 Errors, 62 warning(s).
</aside>

Time for a letter to your MPP, do you think?

Cheers,
Terry.


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