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More than half of government and council websites contain errors and cause problems for disabled people, research shows.

Some 60% of UK government websites contain HTML errors, according to a study by the University of Southampton.

Adam Field, from the university’s School of Electronics and Computer Science, conducted the survey and commented:

"It is a very unfortunate statistic. It should be better. It is not something that is difficult to improve upon."

Mr Field also pointed out disabled people were likely to
require government services and, therefore, had even more reason to
want to use government websites.

He also explained that even if a website looked fine and was
error-free, it did not mean that it would work with all browsers and
for all users and may not always be accessible for visually impaired
people.

Source BBC