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On-the-road access to Web sites may mean laptops with standard browsers, but travel increasingly includes compact-display units such as handhelds, palmtops, pagers, and Internet telephones. Contact with constituencies using these devices is growing in importance; several major corporations have announced Web access tools and mobile computing data services for first quarter 2000.
There are unique issues with these compact-display devices beyond screen size: memory size, user/browser interface, operating system, connection options, connection expense, and proxy servers.
In the next 12 months, compact-display units and Web appliances will rise in prominence, along with accessibility considerations.
It is clear that the candidates did not take palmtop computers into consideration when creating their sites; only the experienced voter will find links to information, indexes, and site search. Compact displays with pagers, telephones, and Web appliances require even more care to assure that their content can be accessed.
How candidates' sites appear on the Palm V is shown later in this report. Though none of the sites seem to have planned for palmtops, Al Gore and Bill Bradley have sites that function effectively with them, followed closely by Pat Buchanan; George W. Bush (an image shown above (d)), Orrin Hatch, John McCain, and Steve Forbes have marginally adequate presentation; the Alan Keyes and Gary Bauer home pages fail the palmtop test entirely, though subsequent pages (if the visiting voter can get to them) are functional.
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