Council websites reviewed for accessibility

2nd Dec 2005

This article highlights a recent review of UK council websites,

Herefordshire Council has come top of November's Local Government league table for website quality and accessibility.

And interestingly, Dan Champions's Clacksweb site placed sixth in a list of the best.

The duff sites include Manchester City Council with the slowest download time and West Sussex County Council with very poor HTML markup.

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