Unlawful Abroad

While tooling through a list of websites linking to Writer's Edge, I found a new website service called Silktide. It had evaluated this place giving it good ratings on marketing, design, visitor experience, and a user rating (thanks, you) with an overall rank of 8.1 (out of 10, I presume). However, the big red Very Poor accessibility rating gave me pause, even though blogger.com is responsible for the template:


Silktide: Sitescore Results:

British legal requirements All pages were found in violation of the current W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.

This website is probably unlawful in Britain from the 1st October 2004. The British Disability Discrimination Act makes it unlawful to discriminate against a disabled person by refusing to provide any service provided to members of the public - including websites.

Show error details (1317 errors found over 5 pages) ...
Webpage http://www.writers-edge.info
616 errors found - only displaying first 10 ...
Line 6, column 67: end tag for 'meta' omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
Line 6, column 0: start tag was here
Line 7, column 17: there is no attribute 'language'
Line 15, column 14: there is no attribute 'profile'
Line 15, column 38: element 'HEAD' undefined
Line 17, column 11: there is no attribute 'name'
Line 17, column 32: there is no attribute 'content'
Line 17, column 39: element 'META' undefined
Line 18, column 46: element 'META' undefined
Line 451, column 6: end tag for 'META' omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
Line 18, column 0: start tag was here ...

I must admit to wondering about the lack of meta tags in the blog page's template, but it is so touchy to change, I think I'll risk British charges of discrimination rather than risk throwing the baby out with the bath water. Must back up this template starting nnnnow!

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