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  • Check out the world’s least accessible website

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    Monday, 27 February 2017 10:20am

    Mehmet Duran, a developer in the accessibility team at the UK Government’s Digital Service group, created a website with two colleagues that is the most inaccessible on the planet. He did so in order to check the accuracy and efficacy of automated testing tools, and the results were surprising.

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    A screenshot of 'the world's least accessible website'

    The British team built a stand-alone webpage full of accessibility fails so that they could conduct an audit of 10 popular automated testing tools to see how accurate they were. All up they created 143 fails, grouped into 19 categories, and you can check out the scope and contents of this inaccessible webpage(link is external).

    As Mehmet Duran explained in a blogpost about the inaccessible website test(link is external) in February 2017, “the fails include things like images without alt attributes, or with the wrong alt attributes, and blank link text. We also put in a number of things that we thought testing tools probably wouldn’t be able to detect, but are also accessibility issues. Things like flashing content that didn’t carry a warning, or plain language not being used in content.”

    “We knew there was no way we could put in every potential accessibility barrier,” added Mehmet, “but we wanted to have enough on the page so that we could adequately test how useful the tools were. We then ran the tools against the page, to find out how many of the fails they would pick up and how many they would miss.”

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  • Check out the world’s least accessible website Error message

    Deprecated function: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in include_once() (line 14 of /home/mediacc/public_html/themes/engines/phptemplate/phptemplate.engine).

    Monday, 27 February 2017 10:20am

    Mehmet Duran, a developer in the accessibility team at the UK Government’s Digital Service group, created a website with two colleagues that is the most inaccessible on the planet. He did so in order to check the accuracy and efficacy of automated testing tools, and the results were surprising.

    A screenshot of 'the world's least accessible website'

    The British team built a stand-alone webpage full of accessibility fails so that they could conduct an audit of 10 popular automated testing tools to see how accurate they were. All up, they created 143 fails, grouped into 19 categories, and you can check out the scope and contents of this inaccessible webpage(link is external).

    As Mehmet Duran explained in ablogpost about the inaccessible website test(link is external) in February 2017, “the fails include things like images without alt attributes, or with the wrong alt attributes, and blank link text. We also put in a number of things that we thought testing tools probably wouldn’t be able to detect, but there are also accessibility issues. Things like flashing content that didn’t carry a warning, or plain language not being used in content.

    We knew there was no way we could put in every potential accessibility barrier, added Mehmet, but we wanted to have enough on the page so that we could adequately test how useful the tools were. We then ran the tools against the page, to find out how many of the failures they would pick up and how many they would miss.