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A report by e-accessibility charity AbilityNet into the accessibility of the major political party websites published today has found that none of the websites comply with the minimum legal standard of accessibility. This is the closest election for generations, but is also the most digital we have ever seen. AbilityNet conducted industry standard tests on all seven of the main party websites, including checking the code, disabled user testing and manual checks for best practise. Tests found that all the party political sites are ‘difficult and frustrating’ for disabled people to use and none of the sites reached the minimum legal requirements. Below are the sites ranked in order of ease of use for the disabled voters who tried to find out information on each party’s policies and contact them about disability issues: 1.Labour 2.SNP 3.Liberal Democrats 4.Green 5.Conservative 6.UKIP 7.Plaid Cymru Robin Christopherson, Head of Digital Inclusion at AbilityNet said: “If web accessibility were to determine the outcome of the General Election on 7 May then the top 3 parties would be Labour, SNP and the Liberal Democrats – although none of the above meet minimum accessibility requirements so it’s questionable whether they deserve the disabled vote. “What our tests have shown is that disabled people are being denied access to information that could help them make an informed choice. “In an election where every vote counts, the political parties should take note and put web accessibility at the top of their digital agendas” Register at the dedicated AccessIndia list for discussing accessibility of mobile phones / Tabs on: http://mail.accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/mobile.accessindia_accessindia.org.in Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/accessindia@accessindia.org.in/ To unsubscribe send a message to accessindia-requ...@accessindia.org.in with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list..
