[LINK] more emergency communications - phone, radio, web

[Tom Worthington]

At 03:41 PM 2/03/2009, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>... It seems the SES could do with help with their website 
>...<http://www.ses.vic.gov.au/> home page links are graphic 
>intensive and do not appear to provide an "Accessible" link ...

The page has some easily fixed problems, but is not as bad as some I have seen.

The page gives a very long URL, which makes me think each page is 
custom built for each user, which is a very bad idea for an emergency 
page: 
<http://www.ses.vic.gov.au/CA256AEA002F0EC7/HomePage?OpenForm&1=Home~&2=~&3=~

A quick TAW test shows the page fails the most basic level of 
accessibility test (Level A) <http://www.tawdis.net/taw3/online>. But 
most of the images have null ALT tags to indicate to an accessible 
browsers that they are not needed.

I tried the page using Opera in small screen mode with no images, to 
emulate a mobile device accessible device. The page worked reasonably 
well on the second attempt (got "Could not connect to remote server" 
the first time).

The  W3C mobileOK Checker <http://validator.w3.org/mobile/> reported 
Page Size as: Total: 182KB, HTML: 22KB, stylesheets: 7KB,  images: 
153KB. Clearly there are far too many and too large images on this 
web page. A few minutes work would be needed to reduce the page size by 75%.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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