Julys top website scoring 7.82 is South Norfolk, Birmingham came bottom scoring just 0.30 This monthís highest climber was Norwich (up 261) Torridge was the greatest faller, dropping 273 places, scoring 3.50 ñ Overall Local Government achieves the highest score for accessibility of any of the sectors we survey.
77% of PDF documents tested didnít meet accessibility requirements, as specified by Adobe. The survey was completed on the 24th July, in all we carried out 78,500,721 tests (function, performance and compliance (accessibility, HTML, Metadata) checks) for its compilation.
The full report is available online here
Why was Birmingham at the bottom with such a poor score?
In the function tests we found 52 failings, there were over 26,000 code failings, 90% of the pages failed accessibility A (156 alt tag issues the main problem) and every page failed AA (label form, link target, headings, style sheets, deprecated featuresÖ a considerable list). On performance the average response time was nearly 6 seconds (the worse pages taking 58 seconds to respond) Response time is vital to a website, what is it? Itís the time from when you click a link to the web site starting to do something (we all experienced the world wide wait ñ clicking a page and then nothing happens)
On metadata every page failed e-GMS (every page failing; Coverage, Creator, Date, Identifier, Language, Publisher, Subject, Title, Accessibility) ñ the front page of the site is also missing keywords and description (as is every page we checked).
You can see more on the last 18 months performance of Birminghamís website here
July Local Gov Survey - Bham Europe's largest council, hits the bottom
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