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1. 2017-11-14 00:37

   

   Andy Mabbett says:

   Have you reported this to the Post Office? What was their response?

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   1. 2017-11-14 07:05

      

      @edent says:

      I have. The are looking into it https://twitter.com/PostOffice/status/930092575708598272

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2. 2018-11-07 16:30

   

   Andy Mabbett says:

   I've just re-run your Post Office search. Pleasingly, the results were "Sorry there were no results matching your enquiry. 'lorem ipsum' "

   Less pleasingly, the "lorem ipsum" alt attribute text is still there, in, for example, the source of https://www.postoffice.co.uk/savings-accounts/if-saving-for-a-car

   Have the Post Office "fixed" this issue by excluding the term from their search results?

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3. 2019-11-23 18:57

   

   Andy Mabbett says:

   I'm slightly late for the second anniversary; but the "lorem ipsum" alt attribute is still on https://www.postoffice.co.uk/savings-accounts/if-saving-for-a-car

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1. 2020-12-14 00:00

   @edent:

   Back in 2017, I noticed that the UK Post Office was doing very dodgy things with their alt text.Lots of their pages had this snippet of code:Rather than add properly accessible alt text, a developer added placeholder Latin text.Being a good webizen, I tried to report this.

   Hi Terence, we are looking into this for you. We'll be in touch once we have more info. ~Stacey— Post Office (@PostOffice) November 13, 2017

   https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsOf course, Twitter is where good customer service goes to die. So, it wasn’t much of a surprise when it wasn’t fixed a year later.

   Hi Andy, I am sorry to hear it! I'll pass this on to our Web team. ~Stacey— Post Office (@PostOffice) November 7, 2018

   https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsI didn’t make a big fuss of the 2nd anniversary. But I thought it would be nice to mark its 3rd birthday.

   Hi, we have a team looking into this currently now Terence as we are concerned that you have reported this previously and it is still ongoing. I'll see if I can get you an update and thanks for your patience – Ryan— Post Office (@PostOffice) November 25, 2020

   https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsWhich was shortly followed by:

   From the conversations I have been CC;d into it is looking like there is a fix for this and it is being implemented next week. Thank you for drawing this to our attention again and apologies it has taken so long – Ryan— Post Office (@PostOffice) November 25, 2020

   https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsA quick check and it has finally been fixed!It is annoying that there’s no real way to get companies to fix their broken stuff. If you report it to customer services – you’ll likely be ignored. It makes me wish that there were public bug trackers for everything!

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