[LINK] Australia’s $164,000 web site

[Tom Worthington]

At 06:53 AM 21/07/2009, Kim Holburn wrote:
>http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,25789922-15318,00.html
>
>The Rudd government spent $164,000 to set up the website ...

This web site is a lot cheaper than the million dollar one for the 
West MacDonnell Visitors' Centre website 
<http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=178660>. ABC Radio 
interviewed me about it a few days ago.

>http://www.economicstimulusplan.gov.au/pages/default.aspx

I was disappointed the Google map of the government spending did not 
include "isodollars": like isobars but instead of regions of high 
pressure, this would show regions of high government spending. ;-)

The web page displays with a double heading on the top of the page, 
when viewed in on Firefox 3.0.11 for Windows.

There is one validation error: 
<http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economicstimulusplan.gov.au%2F&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0>.

Because the home page contains little information, it rates well on a 
mobile test: 
<hhttp://validator.w3.org/mobile/check?task=2009072023375042&docAddr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economicstimulusplan.gov.au%2F> 
and an accessibility test 
<http://www.tawdis.net/system/modules/org.fundacionctic.taw4_wcag_informes_ocms/elements/wcag20/resumen.jsp>.



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