Better Connected not connecting
Socitm’s Better Connected 2007 report is now published. Only two sites pass WCAG level AA from a list of 468. At present, I designed and helped implement 16 of these and I am committed to standards and accessibility.
Better Connected is failing to accomplish anything other than paint a gloomy picture of play and upset Local Authority rulers and those of us really making an effort. When does it get positive? Dan Champion is in a similar position to me and the Web Access Blog makes him an example and issues a kind of apology. 466 failures to comply is frankly depressing. But then, it isn’t accurate is it, which is frankly useless.
One comment
1. Anger at annual review of&hellipMarch 20th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
[…] Anger at annual review of local e-government Published March 20th, 2007 E-government SOCITM, ‘the professional association for public sector ICT management’ aren’t doing themselves any favours by publishing so little information about their annual e-government survey, Better Connected. I’ve seen very little mention of it, and it was published almost a fortnight ago. Indeed, virtually all the coverage I’ve seen so far has been critical of the report and its methodology: Better Connected is failing to accomplish anything other than paint a gloomy picture of play and upset Local Authority rulers and those of us really making an effort. When does it get positive? Jadu’s Lee Pilmore […]