- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 00:09:44 +0000 (GMT)
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
> > Those of you on the other side of the pond may be interested to take > a look at the UK government's main public site: > http://www.open.gov.uk/ It claims 'WAI-AAA' standard of This is the page that made me ask about procedures for dealing with false AAA claims, some months ago (although I didn't name it at the time). I did report the violations to them at the time. It has changed since then, and, at least at one stage, did subsequently validate against its DTD. However, the last time I looked at it with IE, they had messed up a table with the result that some of the heading (which are not marked up as HTML headings!) were displayed with almost overlapping characters, as the browser tried to minimise the overflow of the table cell. This last problem was there for several weeks, and may still be there, even though I provided feedback. (I've just looked with NS 4, and it looks different; I don't know if this is because of NS not propagating the backgrounds to the full width on the headings, or whether it is a re-design. The source looks familiar in the area of the headings, so I think it may just be NS that makes it look different. The headings still aren't real HTML headings.) I also wonder about the copyright/trademark implications of their using reduced images of the self certification stickers, not to mention that they become difficult to read in graphic form. The title simply duplicates the URL. It's better than the legislation web site, which uses HTML almost exclusively for its formatting side effects, rather than its specified semantics.
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