The Retail Bulletin has just announced that they will be publishing, monthly, a league table of the websites of “the UK’s top 15 retailers”. They say:
Using the fully automated testing techniques of website specialist SiteMorse, we will find which of the country’s retailers have the best performing websites and which have the worst.
It’s not clear at this stage how much accessibility will form part of the testing. But this month’s results include factors such as:
Usable (out of 100 per cent) – that the page met the following usability measures: a speed of 5Kb/sec or greater, a response time of 1 second or less, no accessibility failures for visually impaired people, no errors, and seven or fewer warnings.
Read the full article:
http://www.theretailbulletin.com/index.php?page=5&id=8496
