Scottish Political Parties

Survey of the accessibility of 8 parties standing in May 2003 Scottish Parliamentary elections carried out (by David & Martin Sloan)

Four parties' home page failed Cynthia Says test and manual testing found that all have accessibility problems across the Web sites:

  • missing ALT tags, contrasts, graphical navigation, poorly implemented frames, non-compliant HTML, PDF files, …

A number of political parties pledged support for accessibility, the Web sites had been developed for the election and had a high profile. So why the poor findings?

What's Happening?

See <http://www.dmag.org.uk/election/>

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