My question would be, if this is true, how does this affect accessibility
for Blind AOL Users? If indeed there are any. Until now, I'd understood that
IE was the far friendlier browser as far as Accessibility is concerned. Has
something changed I don't know about? I mean, I'm not up on everything, but
I hadn't heard any changes either.
Randy
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