03 May 2006
Invalid Pages: Library of Parliament
The Library of Parliament's website routinely ignores the Government's standards for website design. There are 4127 webpages in the section dealing with the Federal Political Experience of Members of the House of Commons (four examples below), and another 876 webpages in the section dealing with the Federal Political Experience of Senators.
That's a total of 5003 webpages, in this "Federal Political Experience" section alone, and each of these contains dozens of errors.
Example:
Library of Parliament
Federal Political Experience
Harper, The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph
Failed Validation: 28 errors 
Example:
Library of Parliament
Federal Political Experience
MacKay, The Hon. Peter Gordon
Failed Validation: 28 errors 
Example:
Library of Parliament
Index Page
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – Z...
Failed Validation: 213 errors 
Example:
Library of Parliament
Index Page
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – A...
Failed Validation: 433 errors 
All of these Library of Parliament webpages have been updated in the last four months, thus should be fully compliant with the latest government standards for website design.
These validation tests were performed by using the W3C Validation Service.
Here's another problem in these Library of Parliament pages.
Each of the MP index pages has this near the top:
"To view the federal political experience of a Member of the House of Commons, click on one of the underlined names listed below."
Problem: There are no "underlined names below". There are lots of names, but none are underlined.
Example:
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – S...
Each of the Senator index pages has this near the top:
"To view the federal political experience of a Senator, click on one of the underlined names listed below."
Problem: There are no "underlined names below". There are lots of names, but none are underlined.
Example:
Senators, 1867 to Date By Name
That's a total of 5003 webpages, in this "Federal Political Experience" section alone, and each of these contains dozens of errors.
Example:
Federal Political Experience
Harper, The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph
Failed Validation: 28 errors
Failed validation report: Library of Parliament webpage Federal Political Experience, The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper. For a full-size view, click on the image.
Example:
Federal Political Experience
MacKay, The Hon. Peter Gordon
Failed Validation: 28 errors
Failed validation report: Library of Parliament webpage Federal Political Experience, The Hon. Peter Gordon MacKay. For a full-size view, click on the image.
Example:
Index Page
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – Z...
Failed Validation: 213 errors
Failed validation report: Library of Parliament Index Page Z, Members of the House of Commons, 1867 to 2006. For a full-size view, click on the image.
Example:
Index Page
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – A...
Failed Validation: 433 errors
Failed validation report: Library of Parliament Index Page A, Members of the House of Commons, 1867 to 2006. For a full-size view, click on the image.
All of these Library of Parliament webpages have been updated in the last four months, thus should be fully compliant with the latest government standards for website design.
These validation tests were performed by using the W3C Validation Service.
Here's another problem in these Library of Parliament pages.
Each of the MP index pages has this near the top:
"To view the federal political experience of a Member of the House of Commons, click on one of the underlined names listed below."
Problem: There are no "underlined names below". There are lots of names, but none are underlined.
Members of the House of Commons
1867 to Date, By Name – S...
Each of the Senator index pages has this near the top:
"To view the federal political experience of a Senator, click on one of the underlined names listed below."
Problem: There are no "underlined names below". There are lots of names, but none are underlined.
Senators, 1867 to Date By Name
# posted by Ambrose Bierce @ 5/03/2006 11:08:00 p.m. UTC 
