HTML Analysis Of Sample Of JISC 5/99 Projects In Scotland

A pilot survey of the HTML compliance of the home pages of 6 JISC 5/99 projects in Scotland has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

A summary of the findings is given in the following table.

Table 1: HTML Analysis Of Sample Of Scottish JISC 5/99 Projects

	Institution	Compliant?	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	FAILTE	Y	0	Valid XHTML	Check
2	XGrain	N	4	No Character Encoding detected Contains 4 HTML errors (probably due to 1 missing </a> tag	Check
3	Using Numerical Data	N	> 20	No Character Encoding detected Contains many HML errors	Check
4	EEVL	N	> 20	No document type declaration Page revalidated assuming HTML 4.1 transitional DTD. Following errors found: No Character Encoding detected Contains many HML errors	Check
5	e-MapScholar	N	2	No Character Encoding detected Contains 2 HTML errors	Check
6	LEMUR	N	14	Contains HTML errors.	Check

The information in the table was collected on 12^th September 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

• Only the projects with a Web site have been analysed.
• Only the entry points have been analysed.
• Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
• The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Discussion

Rather than simply present projects with this information it is intended to first raise awareness of the issues by providing an article on the importance of standards compliance. If time and logistics permit it is hoped to raise these issues in a workshop and then provide access to the automated surveys.