British government website breaks its own laws

I have tried to visit http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en to find out about WAI and accessability laws specific to the UK as apart of my research for my final year project. The only problem the website dosn't work in Firefox properly.

Oh dear

I find it pathetic that the EU are coming down really hard on organisations who do not have websites which are produced to strict EU guidelines when the main UK government site does not comply with it.

There is some minor errors in the HTMl too

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en

The CSS validates so maybe it is a problem with Mozzila rather than the site. Even so they should fix it as 15% of web users cannot use the site properly at the moment.

 

What's WAI ?

W3 doesn'r give a &*(^ about the browser it looks at the source code, it only has 3 errors rather than www.microsoft.com that has 25

BTW http://www.direct.gov.uk/Homepage/fs/en looks ok to me in Firefox.

 

Andy - doesn't look right to me in FF. Here's what it's meant to look like (IE):



...and here's what it looks like in FF (1.0PR):



The top navigation bar is all screwed up and mostly not visible.

Michael.

 

quick someone call amnesty

 

It still looks odd in FireFox even with AdBlock turned off.

Would comparing both IE and FF images by Tools|Page Info show what is (not) happening when using FF?

 

For those who don't really understand what the fuss is about, as my part time job I work for company who are IT ocnsultants for public sector organisations (i.e universities, NHS, councils, schools etc)

Local authorities and universities are spending millions on making sure their sites work perfectly for every disability and every kind of browser so when a government site dosn't work properly it is hypocritical.

Another site that dosn't work in Firefox is the jobcentres, rather than use serverside programming to produce the listboxes they have used Javascript which must be buggy as Firefox dosn't regconise any of it.