Swedish parliament
The Swedish parliament (Sveriges riksdag) has launched their new approved website. They have focused on accessibility and have come a long way. They seem to use EpiServer as CMS which is quite common here in Sweden. Codewise there as a lot of divitis and classitis, but hey they use CSS based design, semantic XHTML and no validating errors (only warnings). They have easy read Swedish option, built-in speak synthesizer and parts of the site in sign language. Well done.
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June 27th, 2005 at 5:05 pm
Interesting to get your point of view. You are correct in that they have some interesting features but overall the page is quite bad unfortunately. Some of the worst problems have been fixed (missing alt-texts and regular textlinks inside map-tags without images (still exists for the bread-crumbs)).
I tried the speak synthesizer and what was read back to me was the following: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Nullam in nibh at purus ultrices ornare. Maecenas consectetuer magna sed neque. Phasellus adipiscing. Vivamus eleifend.
It is a template for a newsitem that is within comment brackets and not what I had marked. Strange.
How do you tell the difference between warnings and errors in the validator?
June 28th, 2005 at 4:47 pm
I agree that they still have some problems with their site. As also commented on 24timmarsbloggen they have some problems with support for Safari etc. Instead of focusing on the problems I tried to focus on the good things in my post. As I and you write, they have a lot of nice features and have come some way, hopefully will they keep working on the site and make it even better.
About the warnings and errors. I use the Tidy extension for Firefor, I get “live” validation on the pages I visit, that is where I got my numbers from.
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/
June 30th, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Yes, IM a bit negative. Have to work on that:)
I dont have Tidy installed here at work. I’ll have to try it. But its not the same as a validation with validator.w3.org right?
June 30th, 2005 at 3:50 pm
Hehe, I know, I am also that from time to time.
I am not really 100% sure what the differency is between Tidy and W3C’s online validator. W3C (Dave Raggett ) is the “daddy” of Tidy so they must be about the same thing.
http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/