As the election looms I wanted to look at just how responsibly each major political party carries out its own policies and decided to do this by looking at website accessibility and just how careful the main political parties are about complying generally with the guidelines for accessibility and general coding. After all we want a government that is respectful, honest and transparent don’t we…..
Summary-Who Wins the Accessibility Election?
Following my analysis of the 3 main political parties’ websites I have summarised the results below;
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S3 Web Design have launched a new website for Cupcakes To Your Door, a Norfolk based supplier of cupcakes and birthday or celebration cakes. Reasonable prices, fast delivery and wholesome recipes – no “bought in” mixes used. See the new website with lots of lovely pictures and its online shop (the shop should be operational in the next couple of days – in the meantime orders can be made by online form)
By Guest Author: David Reynolds, software engineer for over 30 years.
Back in the Eighties, scanning and document recognition was the buzz word. The vision was for all Visually Impaired people to be equipped with scanners and OCR software, and I remember vividly training blind people to read recipe books, album covers, training materials, etc.
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I have had the great pleasure to have had a number of chats with David Reynolds, a blind internet user. He has provided me with some very useful insights as to how website structure, coding and set-up can affect the accessibility of websites to the visually impaired.
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Today following my report “Who Wins the Accessibility Election” I received an email from Mark Gale at Mencap who said;
“I was really interested to see your blog onthe accessibility of
political party websites. It was a great article about something I
feel is a key issue in actually engaging with constituents in a clear and transparent way.”
He also said he would mention my report on the Mencap website.
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Following my article Who Wins the Accessibility Election? I received a call today from David Reynolds who is blind and it was enlightening to talk with him.
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Namesco was down for about an hour tonight as a turkish hacker had attacked the server. There were apparently attacks yesterday on WordPress sites exploiting the wrong permissions on the wp-config.php file – the automatic set-up by wordpress sets the wrong permissions for this file and so if your website has been hacked you need to;
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