Declaring conformance on web accessibility - ANEC

In total, 23 of the government and public body websites had ten or less failure points and were
selected for manual inspection. None of the certified websites passed all elements of the automatic
testing but 12 had ten or less failure points. There were 11 self declared websites having ten or less
failure points and including three passes. (Table 10)
The results of automatic testing for the Commercial organisations found none that passed automatic
testing to WCAG 2.0 level A and just one in each category of claim had 10 or less failures. This
included one of the three commercial websites claiming WCAG 2.0 AA. (See Table 10).
Of the worst performing sites, one-third had 21 or more failure points. The worst ten results for the
government and public bodies websites were found to have between 27 and 37 failure points, with
four of these being certified sites and six being self declared. These self declared websites
consisted four of the .EU websites, one of .ORG website and one health body. The worst performing
website had a .EU web address and displayed WCAG 1 level A logos.
Of the worst performing commercial websites, half the sample had 21 or more failure points. The
worst ten results were found to have between 22 and 37 failure points. Six of these were certified,
three had WCAG logos and links and one provided a statement. The worst performing Commercial
site was from the UK and declared <strong>conformance</strong> to WCAG 2.0 level A.
Table 10 Summary results of number of websites passing WCAG 2.0 testpoints
Government and public body
Commercial
Conformance
claim
Pass automatic
tests to WCAG
2.0
10 or less
testpoints failed
11-20 testpoints
failed
21 or more
testpoints failed
Certified Self
declaration
Certified
Self declaration
0 3 0 0
12 8 1 1
15 12 5 5
10 14 6 6
ANEC Print version 21 May 2011 Page 23 Declaration of <strong>conformance</strong>