The Obamacare rollout has been a preview of the train wreck many expect it will come to be, and one section of HealthCare.gov is a particular mess:
@TwitchyTeam Look! Another Healthcare dot gov website glitch! Parlez vous Français? Moi, je parle gobbledegook. (https://t.co/ZpuKA1NSut)
— Dangerous Danishova (@Danishova) October 5, 2013
In the “all topics” section of HealthCare.gov, we find this menu:
Clicking on any of those links leads to this page, and it’s an HTML coding mess. Below is a partial screen shot. If you read between the lines it teaches users how to say “train wreck” in dozens of languages:
“Lack of coding skills we can believe in!”
Somebody forgot to set UTF-8 encoding on the Obamacare "other languages" page. Oops. Who tested this? #rookieMistake https://t.co/mCxh4r1nyc
— Richard Sprague (@sprague) October 5, 2013
Hey, what can you expect for a trillion-plus dollars? Beta testing? We don’t think so.
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