Report on current practice

• Using an internal beta version of our tool (TAW Monitor)
  • think of the W3C validators on steroids running on a Grid
  • customizable set of rules and methodology
• Automatic tests (made on 2008-10-20, i.e. two days ago)
  • and only some highlights
• Small scale but very focused and using some complex rules
  • larger scale, see: Opera MAMA, Google Web Authoring Statistics
• No finger pointing

The sample

• EU-27, EU-Candidate countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia and Norway
  • (country list from ePractice.eu factsheets)
• Type of Portals
  • Citizen, Businesses, Tendering
• 84 eGovernment Web sites
  • max. 100 pages/site, totaling 7000 pages (list)
• 8 were finally not tested
  • eg. infinite loop due to cookies, only "javascript:" links

Use of CMS and Authoring Tools

• 27% detected automatically; 54% manually

• others: Agora, Arnia, Codecharge Studio, Coremedia, Dreamweaver, EPiServer, Eplica, eZ Publish, Imperia, Joomla!, NPS/FIONA, PHP, Plone, Rila, Tridion, Vip-page Generator, Wordpress, Ximdev

(X)HTML Code

some unknown elements: nvc_prop_value, pubdate, guid, vctag_1_start, vctag_2_start, vctag_3_start...

Accessibility

• remember: these are only automatic tests (and you need manual ones, too!)

• AA compliant Web sites (at most): 3.9%
• images with alt: 66%
• forms not requiring javascript: 79%

Design and Usability (so to say)

¨number of sites using CSS
*used for layout
^with resources

Largest page: 2.2Mb

Some semantics

*per number of sites, not per pages