Indeed the IRS website blocks Tor users from accessing tax information, as if tor users don’t need tax information. Important legal guidance exists on irs.gov, so it’s obviously an injustice to block people from becoming informed about their rights and obligations.
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What’s the fix? Would it be effective to make a FOIA request on paper so the IRS must send the info on paper via USPS? Or would that require compensation to offset their burden?
Filing a FOIA is free, but the agency is allowed to charge for gathering the info and sending it to you. They should tell you how much it will cost before they do it.
Sounds like a FOIA doesn’t help then. If they are compensated sufficiently for their labor and cost, then FOIA reqs would fail to pressure them to make their website more accessible. That sucks. It means (AFAICT) we have no push back mechanism against lousy/enshitified gov websites.
I suppose we can make requests on paper (not expressed as a FOIA), but then they can simply ignore it. Which is the case with some gov offices (yeah, I already tried… sec of states generally ignore requests for info that come by mail).