Showing posts with label Jury duty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jury duty. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

No, you cannot include pointless buttons

You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape a summon for jury duty.  I opened my mailbox last week to this undesirable document and immediately started thinking of how to dodge my calling.  A co-worker who was recently dismissed from summons counseled me on how to postpone my jury service for a few months.  In order to do so the government website asks you to enter a cryptic code depicted on screen;  the page also offers the option to listen to the characters in the image.  I don't know if it's because I work in software development, or because I'm not moronic, but can someone explain why they would place a 'listening' button on a web page which requires the ability to see?  A person who needs the letters read aloud is most likely sight impaired which means they can't actually use the website as intended.  To top it off, when I ventured to click on the button...silence.  No sound came out!  I cannot be expected to serve as a contributing jury member if government web designers cannot anticipate the ridiculousness of a meaningless button.