[LINK] New Tabloid Sydney Morning Herald Fails Web Tests

[Tom Worthington]

In conjunction with its move to a tabloid size print format, the Sydney 
Morning Herald newspaper also made changes to its website: 
http://www.smh.com.au/national/introducing-the-new-smhcomau-home-page-20130303-2fee0.html

Unfortunately, routine tests reveal some problems with the web format of 
the newspaper:

1. W3C Markup Validation Service: 228 Errors. None of these errors is 
serious and are easily fixed: 
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

2. W3C mobileOK Checker: Score of 0 out of 100 for mobile friendliness 
(lowest possible score), with 4 critical, 3 severe,3 medium and 6 low 
failures. This will make the site more expensive and harder to use on 
mobile devices: 
http://validator.w3.org/mobile/check?task=201303032122223.mobile2&docAddr=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2F

3. AChecker Accessibility Review (Guidelines: WCAG 2.0 Level AA): 29 
Known Problems. This could make the site harder to use for people with a 
disability: http://achecker.ca/

More in my blog at: 
http://blog.tomw.net.au/2013/03/new-tabloid-sydney-morning-herald-fails.html


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