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RSS websitesWebsites for the disabled fail accessibility test
News The majority of websites run by disability organisations are, incredibly, failing to pass accessibility tests - meaning they cannot be used by some of the very users that they aim to support. Last week, leading ecommerce... [20 Apr 2004]
Websites told: Label smut or face prison
News Operators of commercial websites with sexually explicit content would have to post warning labels on each offending page or face imprisonment under a new proposal in the US Senate. It's equally unclear how to draw the... [15 Jun 2006]
Websites make poor showing on e-accessibility
News The vast majority of public service websites in Europe are failing to meet international e-accessibility standards. That's according to a report released by the UK EU presidency, which shows that a mere three per cent of... [28 Nov 2005]
Websites starting to cut out the cookies
News Fewer websites are using cookies to collect personal information from surfers, according to the latest research. A survey by the Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) found that 84 of the 100 busiest... [02 Apr 2002]
Police chief calls for end to "abhorrent" websites
News The most senior officer from the UK's Hi-Tech Crime Unit has called for websites devoted to subjects such as cannibalism and necrophilia to be closed down, claiming they contribute to internet criminality. [25 Feb 2004]
Websites get data guidelines in wake of Powergen scandal
News While the guidelines are not legally binding, Smith said that the DPC would investigate complaints against websites that did not comply with them. All websites should be obliged to print principles on... [26 Jul 2000]
Websites failing disabled surfers
News An investigation into the accessibility of the internet has slammed the majority of websites for being unusable for disabled would-be web surfers. The Disabled Rights Commission singled out websites such... [14 Apr 2004]
Foreign websites move into top 20 online properties
News MSN has topped the chart of the most-visited websites in July. The site managed to tot up more than six million unique visitors - up three per cent on June's figures. Yahoo, AOL Time Warner and Wanadoo also figured... [15 Aug 2001]
Web accessibility drive for UK government websites
News Macromedia Government, officially launched in the UK this week at an event at the House of Commons, is dedicated to 'enabling the public sector to create websites and rich internet applications'. In order to encourage... [18 Jun 2004]
High Availability Infrastructures for TYPO3 Websites
White Paper Today companies everywhere depend not only on maximum uptime of in house applications, but also on the continuous availability of websites and web-based services, many of them programmed with TYPO3. The best content... [18 Jul 2008]
SMEs too busy to manage own websites
News Yankee Group says about 65 per cent of SMEs have websites and 39 per cent offer ecommerce, up five per cent from a year ago. Small businesses are driving the growth of the online services market, according to new research. [06 Jul 2006]
Council websites see traffic hike
News Interest in local council websites is rocketing, even before a government campaign to improve take-up launches later this year. Visitors to council websites increased by 40 per cent last year, according... [10 Apr 2006]
Amazon websites go down
News A problem with Amazon's UK and German websites left the retailer's sites unavailable to customers up until lunchtime today after going down earlier this morning. The problem does not appear to be planned with visitors to... [26 Sep 2003]
World's leading websites failing the disabled
News Only three per cent of the world's leading websites meet the needs of disabled web users, according to the UN. The study tested websites from 20 countries - including China, Japan, Russia, the UK and the... [06 Dec 2006]
Microsoft patches bust websites
News Two Microsoft security updates for Internet Explorer can break the functionality of websites that use certain custom applications. The issue of broken websites is the latest problem with Microsoft patches. [03 Nov 2005]
