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Denmark: Survey Results On The Web Accessibility Of Government Websites

According to a survey conducted on behalf of the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation by a consulting firm specialising in information
technology for people with disabilities, 52 % of the Danish government websites are not fully e-accessible to people with various types of disabilities.

 

A total of 226 government websites were tested, including pages that are directly covered by the agreement on the mandatory open standards and a variety
of other government websites. Individual pages were tested in terms of compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA standard
and with the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) and the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standards.

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