Canadian election Web sites flunk standards test

Summary

An independent, nonpartisan review of Canadian political Web sites shows that all sites tested:

1. do not meet Web standards, meaning their underlying code is grammatically incorrect
2. probably work correctly in only one browser, Internet Explorer for Windows, even though not all Canadians use that browser
3. usually don’t bother identifying the language in which they are written (English or French)
4. are somewhat inaccessible to people with disabilities

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1. Press release
2. Findings, complete with layperson’s explanation