Hi Colin,
I took a quick look. It's pretty dense stuff, isn't it? :)
For me, Edinburgh's accessibility rating is something that warrants more attention but the data here is, frankly, useless to me. I can't see the sample of pages that were used. We operate in a devolved editing environment with multiple publishing platforms so inevitably there are going to be big differences in the quality of online provision.
So as far as I can see it's just a big table of numbers that Sitemorse are hoping will:
1. generate a few news articles that will
2. alarm a few senior people who will
3. kick folk like us (possibly throwing a little money our way too) and
4. generate them a bit of business.
We use Siteray in-house as one of several tools to generate regular appraisal reports for schools and outward-facing departments a couple of times a year. We use the real information behind these headline stats to educate our web publishers to fix the biggest issues and avoid making mistakes in future.
This, to me, is more relevant and should be of greater concern to us all:
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/blog/education-user-experience-report-2013
Cheers
N
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From: Information Sharing List for Scottish Web Folk [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Colin Hamilton
Sent: 22 July 2013 21:46
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Subject: http://www.sitemorse.com/survey/report.html?rt=973
Hi Folks,
hope u r all well.
Just back holidays- you all seen this article?
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/news/de-montfort-top-in-website-analysis/2005852.article
using
http://www.sitemorse.com/survey/report.html?rt=973
Anyone had any thoughts on this?
Cheers
C
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