Posts by CB__ 16 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jan 2020
Wrong side of the year, but is this a joke article? Or is Rupert Goodwins actually the work experience kid who's only ever viewed content on YouTube with the obligatory coloured subtitles and backing track? As so many other commentards have said, PDF is a great standard for ensuring that documents are viewed as they were meant to be viewed, and this article is just self-defeating in every way!
Completely appreciate DLSmith's comment, but imho the whole look and feel of a website shouldn't need to be compromised in order to satisfy the affected few -- as noted, there are built-in browser tools these days to improve accessibility, and the considerate website designer may also add such features by choice.
We could make everything black and white, but without meaning to sound inconsiderate, that's not much fun for everyone else.
I think I can tell which of Disgusted vs Boris are in the private vs public sector. Boris: an employment contract will dictate which days you work and how much holiday you'll get per year -- you get to choose whether you agree to that contract, or to negotiate it if you don't like what's being offered. Similarly, employment rights, and health and safety, have long since been statutory (written into law). I don't agree with exploitation in any form, but too many public sector workers expect the world on a plate, and don't realise that most of us in the private sector are not fat cat execs, but hard working folk. Those of us who are small business owners regularly work 60+ hour weeks trying to make a success of our ventures with very little help from the government, maintaining a payroll for our staff, and end up take home less per month than you do. So please do bear that in mind.
I'm afraid it's endemic in the NHS these days, and if they don't get it to work this time, then they'll try a different way, again. Anyone remember care.data from a few years back? They'll get our health data eventually, whether we like it or not, and whether it's legal or not. The best thing you can do is to tackle it from a different angle -- buy your cakes and booze with cash, and don't use your Nectar/Tesco card when you do it ;)
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