w3c: December 2006 Archives

If people cannot access online services due to accessibility issues, then it would be fairly safe to say that egovernment is not succeeding - it's probably failing. Richard Hearne has done a fascinating analysis of over 40 Irish government and political party websites with a view to assessing their accessibility and the results are quite worrying:

Government Department sites 25% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 75% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Public body sites 33% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 100% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Political Party sites 57% Failed the minimum standard for accessibility 100% Failed both minimum accessibility and basic coding standards Four Government Departments passed with flying colours: Dept of Arts, Sports and Tourism Dept Enterprise, Trade and Employment Dept of Finance Dept of Social and Family Affairs

You can read the full report on Richard's site