> I went to do a search on public holidays (which I am compiling from > all Government Websites) and being a proud WA girl, thought our site > would be the best.
Visit http://www.docep.wa.gov.au/lr/LabourRelations/Content/Wages%20and%20Conditions/Public%20Holidays/Public_Holidays.html for the information. > Alas, I was wrong and it's killing me how poor it is in relation to > standards, accessibility and usability. And no this site does not validate, the CMS only likes HTML 4.01 and the code used for the drop downs is valid XHTML 1.1 transitional but not 4.01 transitional. It is something we are hoping will be fixed in the next version of the CMS. Another problem is that the content is cut and pasted from MS Word. Many content contributors, none who know or understand HTML. However, that site is accessible and has decent usability. Traffic has doubled in the last six months since the redesign (no promotion or any other changes, just redesigned and the information architecture improved). > Does anyone on this list work in any dept in WA that could perhaps > enlighten the powers that be at how bad the site makes WA look > compared to other government sites? Yes. See http://www.egov.dpc.wa.gov.au/index.cfm?fuseaction=projects.policy for the Guidelines for State Government Web Sites. There is a push for standards based sites from the office of e-government and it is slowly happening, but very slowly. Nick ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
