Benchmarking Web Sites Workshop For Museum New Media Spring School - Bobby Analysis of Selected Web Sites


The following table gives a summary of a survey of the accessibility of home pages of Web sites for participants on the "Leicester Spring School In New Media" which was held at University of Leicester on 20th April 2005.

The survey makes use of the Bobby compliance checking tool.

It is important to be aware that this survey does not say if a page is accessible - it simply reports on accessibility problems which can be detected by an automated tool. A full accessibility audit would require manual checking in addition to use of automated tools.

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

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Findings

Table 1: Findings
  Organisation A Compliant? AA Compliant? P1 Errors P2 Errors Comments Try It
1 Natural History Museum Y N 0 errorS 5 errors (14, 5, 12, 1 and 8 instances)   A Check
AA Check
2 National Museum of Science and Industry N N 1 error (3 instances) 2 errors (11 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
3 The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television Y N 0 errors 5 errors (38, 1, 11, 1 and 6 instances)   A Check
AA Check
4 National Museums and Galleries of Wales Y N 0 errora 4 errors (1, 1, 1 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
5 Cotswold Motoring Museum' Y N 0 errors 3 errors (1, 4 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
6 Bolton Museum, Art Gallery & Aquarium Y N 0 errors 1 error (2 instances)   A Check
AA Check
7 Museum of Science And Industry In Manchester N N 1 error (2 instances) 3 errors (22, 1 and 2 instances)   A Check
AA Check
8 24 Hour Museum Y N 0 errors 4 errors (130, 1, 16 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
9 MWR N N 1 error (1 instances) 2 errors (2 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
10 Arts and Technology Partnership N N 1 error (4 instances) 1 errors (1 instances) Framed page; only frameset analysed. A Check
AA Check
11 Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester N N 2 errors (1 and 8 instances) 4 errors (4, 3, 2 and 2 instances)   A Check
AA Check
12 Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Open University Y N 0 errors 2 errors (2 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check
13 elearning group for museums and galleries, libraries and archives N N 1 error (1 instance) 2 errors (2 and 1 instances)   A Check
AA Check

The information in the table was collected on 14th April 2005.

Notes

Please note the following:

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 2: Bobby Compliance Summary
A Compliant 7 58%
Nos. Which Comply With AA 0 0%
Not Compliant (not A or AA) 6 42%
Not Known 0 0%