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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by bandrami on Monday February 23, 2026 @12:24PM (#47125441)
The US Social Security Administration website is available from 6am to 8pm, Monday to Friday (or at least it was that way a few years ago)
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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by shakna on Monday February 23, 2026 @01:36PM (#47126655)
The service hours seem a bit wider nowadays [0], but not 24/7.

[0] https://www.ssa.gov/myssa-static/rel_1.0/offHoursPopup.html

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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by mananaysiempre on Monday February 23, 2026 @07:51PM (#47131360)
I’ve heard such things in the US were because of accessibility law that required the website (for the general population) to work no better than the associated call center (for the people who can’t interact with the website for whatever reason).

On one hand, that seems obviously stupid. On the other, I don’t see how you could phrase a legal requirement of this nature.

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Re:The peculiar case of Japanese web design (2022) by bandrami on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @04:45AM (#47135008)
That's better than my assumption, which was that it was running off the Visual Foxpro instance on somebody's desktop and that guy had to be logged in for it to work.
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