Press Release: All of the UK’s top 30 retail websites fail to meet the most basic of accessibility requirements
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Research conducted in August 2006 by user experience experts Nomensa, shows that not one of the UK’s top 30 retail websites meets the minimum requirements for website accessibility.
The homepages and terms and conditions pages of each retail site were measured and evaluated, using a combination of manual and automated testing against the globally recognised Web Content Accessibility Guidelines3 (WCAG) version 1.0.
Retailers that were recognised as showing particular consideration of accessibility are John Lewis, Marks and Spencer and Tesco.
