[LINK] New Tabloid Sydney Morning Herald Fails Web Tests

[Tom Worthington]

On 04/03/13 17:20, Scott Howard wrote:

> The Mobile site - m.smh.com.au <http://m.smh.com.au> - which they
> redirect to automatically if a mobile browser is detected, does much
> better ...

Yes, the SMH mobile site has fewer errors:

* W3C Markup Validation Service: 4 errors (down from 228 on the standard 
site). None of these errors is serious and are easily fixed.

* W3C mobileOK Checker: Score of 75% for mobile friendliness, up from 
zero on the standard site. In particular the size of the page has been 
reduced about 94% (down from 1.5Mbytes to 86Kbytes), which is a boon for 
those paying for downloads on mobile plans.

* AChecker Accessibility Review (Guidelines: WCAG 2.0 Level AA): 6 Known 
Problems (down from 29). However, there appears to be no alternative 
text for the link to the home page and as a result people who can't see 
image would have difficulty navigating back from sub-pages to the home 
page of the site.

The web browsers on most smart phones and tablet computers don't 
identify themselves as "mobile" devices and so the standard website will 
be displayed by default. I could not see a link to the mobile version on 
the standard version.


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