Text-only summary: relative frequency of accessibility errors by error type (2000 and 2002 data sets)


The vast majority of accessibility errors detected by the automated function of Bobby in the 2002 study fall into two categories: images without alternative text and image-map hotspots without alternative text. Errors in the former category occur most frequently (close to 83% in the combined set of SLIS and library web pages). About each sixth error detected by Bobby (about 16%) in the combined set falls into the latter category. Libraries have, on the average, a somewhat higher proportion (22%) of image map hotspots with missing alternative text. Similar percentages, with a slightly higher proportion of errors pertaining to missing alternative text for image map hotspots (21% in the combined set), were revealed by the 2000 data. Missing frame titles constituted 1% of the errors in 2000, as compared to .16% in 2002. It is this author’s impression that this decline has less to do with more accessible frame arrangements than with a general decline in the use of frames.


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Created by Axel Schmetzke, Library, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
Last updated 03/13/02 .
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