Benchmarking Web Sites Workshop For RSC South East - Bobby Analysis of Selected Web Sites


The following table gives a summary of accessibility of the home pages of Web sites for participants on the "Benchmarking For Web Sites" workshop for RSC South East which will be held at Reading College and School of Arts & Design, Wokingham Road campus on 16 th November 2004.

The survey makes use of the Bobby compliance checking tool.

It is important to be aware that this survey does not say if a page is accessible - it simply reports on accessibility problems which can be detected by an automated tool. A full accessibility audit would require manual checking in addition to use of automated tools.

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

You can use the service yourself either by going to Bobby or by entering a URL in the following box:

Bobby Checking Tool

Findings

Table 1: Findings
  Organisation A Compliant? AA Compliant? P1 Errors P2 Errors Comments Try It
1 RSC SE Web Site N N 1 error (3 instances) 1 errors (1 instance)   A Check
AA Check
2 Reading College N N 1 error (9 instances) 5 errors (60, 2, 20, 1 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
3 Basingstoke College Of Technology Y Y 0 errors 0 errors   A Check
AA Check
4 Bexhill College N N 1 error (8 instance) 6 errors (44, 9, 1, 1 and 6 instances)   A Check
AA Check
5 The Henley College N N 1 error (23 instances) 4 errors (29, 1, 1 and 6 instances)   A Check
AA Check
6 Itchen College N N 1 error (18 instances) 6 errors (53, 14, 1, 14 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
7 Henley Management College Y N 0 errors 4 errors (103, 1, 1 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check

The information in the table was collected on 12th November 2004.

Notes

Please note the following:

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 2: Bobby Compliance Summary
A Compliant 2 28.6%
Nos. Which Comply With AA 1 14.4%
Not Compliant (not A or AA) 5 71.4%
Not Known 0 0%