# FTSE 100 companies poor at making Web sites accessible

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2004/03/15/ftse-100-companies-poor-making-web-sites-accessible/
- Published: 2004-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Some of the UK’s top companies, with large marketing and online publishing budgets,
are failing to make their sites accessible to those using assistive devices, according
to research from Nomensa.
Nomensa’s survey of FTSE 100 companies’ Web sites found
that only 10% of them demonstrated good layout and structure. An appallingly high
79% of these Web sites did not provide alternate text for images, and 77% did not
allow font sizes to be rescaled by users.

Only one site had valid HTML, and only one other site had defined access keys for
quicker keyboard navigation.

Nomensa recently surveyed the top 100 UK universities’ Web sites and found a similarly
poor situation, with 43% of them failing the same tests set for the FTSE 100 companies.

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Often accessibility is not related to a large Web budget: much of it is common sense.
So the poor record of top UK companies is not an excuse for UK charities to ignore
the issue of Web accessibility.

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