CSS Analysis Of A Selection of FE College Web Sites In The South West

A pilot survey of the CSS compliance of the home pages of a sample of FE Colleges in the south west has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C CSS compliance checking tool.

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Findings

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

Table 1: Findings
  Project Compliant? Style Sheet Used? Errors Comments Try It
1 Exeter College N -     Check
2 North Devon College N -     Check
3 Penwith College N -     Check
4 Richard Huish College N -     Check
5 Swindon College N Y 5 errors found   Check
6 Weymouth College Y Y     Check
7 RSC South West N -     Check

The information in the table was collected on 20th November 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 2A: Stylesheet Available
Yes 3 43%
No 4 57%
Table 2B: Compliance
Compliant 1 50%
Not Compliant 1 50%