Now that that’s done, the sad truth is that many of us have to deal with IE6 on a daily basis. The school district I work for still has one quarter of the computers running Windows 2000. They have been updating the hardware, but for political reasons were unable to update the operating system for a few years. When I started last January they were halfway through a migration to Vista and had skipped XP entirely. However, there is still 1/4 of the district to go so we’re supporting IE6 for another 7 months or so.

Today I was covering the helpdesk phone and a user called in unable to get to the website for another school district in the area. That district was running a WordPress plugin that completely prevents IE6 from accessing the site. This is what my user saw:

In my opinion, the administrators for a public school district’s website have the obligation to make the site as accessible as possible. The browser preferences of the site admins should not be allowed to prevent access to the site. If it was a decision by the district administration and not the IT administration, it’s even more stupid. It wouldn’t have bothered me if there was still a way for the older browser to access the site, but they completely block it preventing access by people that have no control over their browser version.