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Purely out of morbid curiosity, I visited Healthcare.gov to see what’s going on over there. I’d heard so much.
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. Canonical name is the short one. +1Shutting off stylesheets yields relatively semantic content. There are a few too many icons that could have been moved to the stylesheet instead.
Having all of those repeated sets of icons in the page reduces usability for the disabled, who are actually quite likely to be browsing a government insurance site, actually. Still, it’s better than a lot of other pages in this regard.
Let us soldier on and see what kind of plans there are.
Well, that was pretty straightforward and easy and not at all slow and broken. Thumbs up for the federal government, amirite?
Deep breath. Let’s go see what New York State has to offer. Apparently, it has its own site to handle ACA applications. I’d heard about that. It’s a rich state and state-level trumps federal-level every time, right? This is gonna be good.
And so my journey comes to an abrupt end, my interest wanes and my basic faith in the utter awfulness of all software is restored.