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While
the government is encouraging designers to make their websites
accessible, it seems it isn’t practicing what it preaches.
Recent
surveys suggest that the government’s own sites are
far from perfect. The studies have shown that the sites seem
to ignore basic web design principles, for example, the 10
Downing Street site front page is a massive 187Kb, while the
Job Centre online site took an incredible one minute and twenty
seconds to load.
In January
Keynote systems reported that seven out of ten government
sites had browser incompatibility problems.
The National
Audit office, after surveying sixty five official sites in
February, concluded “If government is to take full advantage
of the potential of technology, it must make sure its e-services
are accessible to all and work to avoid a digital divide”.
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