Monday, April 14, 2008

putting the "ass" in "mass.gov"

Massachusetts has traditionally been one of the few states where auto insurance has been regulated – i.e., rates have been set by the state. Now, we’re cautiously removing the regulations, hoping that this will reduce the rates. So far, so good. The state has even set up an informative site to announce the changes – even better!

To find that site, I went to mass.gov and executed a search. The results were certainly reasonable, so I clicked on the first one, and… nothing. After a few more clicks, I thought that either a) my browser froze, or b) my mouse has expired. And then a terrible realization has hit me: THEY MANAGED TO COMPLETELY REVERSE LINK AND TEXT COLORS! Yes, you read that right, you're supposed to click on the black titles, and not the lines that look like links and have link numbers right next to them:

What makes it even better is that on the rest of the site the links are blue and underlined, and the text is black. Awesome, guys.

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