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From: Barry Hill
Date: Aug 16, 2012 3:35AM

I thought it failed, but wasn't sure if I was just being pedantic. There are
several things wrong with the new local government website that I feel I
should point out to them. Another example of the visual location came on
their 'Accessibility' page:

"In the right-hand columnn of each page of this site are two toggle buttons
which allow the re-sizing of the text on that page. Click on the "A+" button
to increase the text size and the "A-" button to decrease the size."

Instead of such visual location descriptions, what should be used? Perhaps a
same page link?

I do think that the reason why it fails is that it used three automated
accessibility checkers to validate tripple A with W3C 1.0. They don't
appear to have done any user testing. I also think they should have gone
for 2.0 being a new site.

Cheers

Barry