Malarkey asks "Can an eGIF website really be this BA
Comrades
The UK government's e-GIF demands that public sector e-services are accessible.
So check out the web site for the e-GIF Compliance Assessment Service (
http://www.egifcompliance.org/). Maybe they should look at little closer to home?
So much for interoperability - the site;
1. Uses frames and has the (very useful) no-frames message "Sorry, your browser does not support frames. This site requires frames to work. Please update your browser."
2. Does not validate (http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.egifcompliance.org/)
Now I could be wrong but I thought interoperability was about things working with other/different things. Try looking at this site in anything other than IE and watch the menus disappear when you increase text size.
Their developers are Muppets... I'm speechless
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| e-GIF is the acronym for the e-Government Interoperability |
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(Add Framework to the end of that)
Totally agree Malarkey, it sucks.
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Erm yes, I was so overjoyed to get two Yorshire Pudding photographs today (it looks like hell is thawing and not freezing over after two years of waiting) that I couldn't copy the correct text even so it is still a highly amusing.};-) http://www.xhtmlcoder.com/
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Of course, it should be accessible.
However, the site was not produced by the Office of the e-Envoy. It is a service offered by the National Computing Centre, an independent membership and research organisation & Ltd. company.
PS. I am not trying to pretend that all government sites are accessible though.
The views and opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the position of my employer or government policy. [*Ack*]
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Comrade
Sebastion, thank-you for the post and for agreeing that the site in question 'should' be accessible.
I spotted this little gem on their site that made me smile:
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Good quality management will also reduce the risk to project and programme deliverables.
Are your potential suppliers (internal and external) working to industry recognised best practice?
Will your team be working to industry recognised best practice?
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When you consider the site they (probabably) spent a good deal of money on, perhaps they need to call in the auditors to look at 'deliverables', and 'working to best practice'?
I hope the Revolution fairs well at COI comrade.
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