Central Government Websites ñ November 2005

Top place this month goes to the Central Office of Information, gaining the position from Child Support Agency (this monthís number 2). Once again the DTI is at the bottom.

This month the railways regulator provides the slowest responseÖ no comments relating to train times hereÖ www.disability.gov.uk scores well overall now in the top 10 ñ but considering what the site is about it should score better than 6 out of 10 for accessibility.

Website Compliance
Accessibility Compliance ñ results of automated testing against the mandatory requirements of Priority 1 (A) Accessibility:

25 sites had 0% of pages failing Accessibility A, 48 sites scored less than 10% of pages with failures but 7 sites had more than 99% of pages failing Accessibility A.

Following sites failed the mandatory A tests on every page;

www.ecgd.gov.uk
www.isb.gov.uk
www.ogcbuyingsolutions.gov.uk
www.statistics.gov.uk
www.walesoffice.gov.uk

Local Government Websites ñ November 2005
Top place goes to Herefordshire Council, gaining the position from Hastings Borough Council (this monthís number 5). Manchester still demonstrating that very poor HTML will manifest itself with performance that is some 1,000 times slower than the top players.

Overview of findings
Top of the league and best site overall was Herefordshire Council (www.herefordshire.gov.uk). At the bottom of the table, representing the poorest site overall was Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council (www.dungannon.gov.uk).

Website Function
15 sites were error free this month. The site with the highest number of error occurrences was West Sussex County Council (www.westsussex.gov.uk) with nearly 5,500.

Website Compliance
Accessibility Compliance ñ results of automated testing against the mandatory requirements of Priority 1 (A) Accessibility:

196 sites had 0% of pages failing Accessibility A, 338 sites scored less than 10% of pages with failures but 17 sites had more than 99% of pages failing Accessibility A.

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