30% Accessible - A Survey of The UK Wide Web


Features Used in Each Web Page

Feature 1st December 1996 1st April 1997 % Change Access?
HTML fails validation 93.50% 94.45% +0.95% WORSE
Some missing <IMG> ALTs 66.23% 66.14% -0.09% -
All <IMG> tags have ALTs 21.19% 19.72% -1.47% WORSE
Netscape Navigator 12.42% 10.44% -1.98% -
Microsoft IE 6.75% 8.10% +1.35% -
JavaScript(s) 6.68% 9.12% +2.44% -
HTML validates OK 6.50% 5.55% -0.95% WORSE
Bad character entities syntax 5.07% 3.87% -1.20% better
<FRAME>s with <NOFRAMES> 3.42% 7.20% -3.78% better
Illegal Latin-1 characters 2.06% 1.91% -0.15% -
<FRAME>s without <NOFRAMES> 2.01% 2.89% +0.88% WORSE
Refresh header 1.82% 2.17% +0.35% WORSE
Java Applets 1.62% 1.62% +0.00% -
Shockwave 0.60% 0.50% -0.10% -
Visual Basic Script 0.14% 0.18% -0.04% -

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