An online notebook
Dave More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows.
Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.
A similar proportion do not comply with guidelines created to improve web access, it found.
In response, a government spokesman said the UK had been actively promoting better accessibility of sites.
[tags]web design, standards, government it[/tags]
Daveybot provides a great round up of his Firefox set-up. Have pinched a few of those extensions for myself.
[tags]firefox, extensions[/tags]
Apparently the blog run by David Miliband, the UK government’s “Minister of Communities and Local Government”, costs the taxpayer £6,000 – whether that was a one off payment or an ongoing annual fee it doesn’t say.
Clearly the government’s ability to wildly overspend on IT even stretches to the world of blogging – which is surely the easiest techy thing to do for free?
[tags]blogging, politics, miliband[/tags]