How much are tickets to see the Doobie Brothers in Dallas this summer?  Here’s what you have to do to find out.  Go to their home page:

http://www.doobiebrothers.net/

Of course you would click on “Tour”

Scroll down to 7/21/2012 and click on Gexa Energy Pavilion, and whether you wanted it or not, you get a new window:

Click on Buy Tickets:

Click on Gexa Energy Pavilion:

Oh, now here’s one of those javascript/css popups.  Would you like to participipate in our useless survey?”:

Which you have to answer before you can go forward.  NO THANKS!

Scroll down till you find July 21^st.  Oops, it’s not on page one, or even page two.  On to page 3, we see it.  Click on “Find Tickets”:

We now get to tell it that we want more than ZERO tickets.  The up/down buttons don’t do what you would think they would do, but at least we can now see that the tickets are $20., but let’s go forward.  Click on “Find Tickets” button (one more time):

Oh, they’re not sure if we’re a real human being or not, so we have to put up with the dreaded CAPTCHA:

Now we have a flash object that spins and spins, and finally, I get this:

 

I think I’ll just try to order over the phone.

 

 

The following Austin restaurants have their menus in either PDF form, or jpeg images:

Blue Dahlia Bistro
Cannoli Joe’s
The County Line
Jack Allen’s Kitchen
La Sombra Austin
Matt’s El Rancho
Moonshine Grill
Nuevo Leon in Austin
Opal Devine’s
Phil’s Ice House
Pizza Paradise
Quality Seafood
Taco Deli

How convenient!  We can download them, print them, and even color them to our heart’s content.  None of those plain text menus for me; they’re too dull!

Also, except for the “latest scoop”, which is a blog, Amy’s Ice Cream‘s web site is done entirely in Flash, and it’s so colorful, too!  Who woulda thunk it?

Let’s get serious.  Amy’s site is so sweet, it’s sickening (no pun intended), and as for the others, well, they are probably just uneducated about web accessibility.

There are a lot of web developers here in Austin who not only know about web accessibility, but also demonstrate it on every web site they create, so let’s inundate them with offers to “bring their web sites into the 21st century“.  Charge money, of course, and I hope they pay you very well.

Even with the PDF menu, still, I might go to Phil’s Ice House, since Google tells me it’s 0.4 miles from here, and that I can get there in 35 seconds.  If I do, you can betcha I’ll be mentioning the web site.

OK, so who should I check out next?  I’m retired.  I’ve got time. 

 

“This one goes up to eleven.”  Spinal Tap

11/11/11

and a few days ago, we had 11/02/2011

 Revision:

@cookiecrook pointed out (at 11:11:11 PM CST) that I had missed 11/11/11 11:11:11 AM two hours ago, whereas it had just happened to him.

Don’t forget, since even a broken clock is right twice a day, there’s 11/11/11 11:11:11 PM later tonight.

Today has never happened before.

That is all.  We now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast.