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Story: Cabinet Office hit by Web site outage

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Hi,

I could have the wrong end of the stick but I work as a web developer and part of my job covers making web systems accessible. I believe that I've spotted a possible error with the content of this article. The article talks initially about infrastructure problems on a government website. The writer then goes on to compare this to the recent report on website eAccessibility.

I believe that the report mentioned is talking about issues such as making the site "viewable" to people who may be visually impaired or have other needs that make "seeing" the page problematic. The common term for this is Accessibility. I can't see the relevance of mentioning the report beyond a clever play on words - that the site was "inaccessible" due to network problems, and I actually think that the way it is written confuses the important issues covered by the report by linking it to network problems.

I asked a colleague to read the article to check my thought process and after reading it he claimed that the report was written about the "server uptime" of the website - an assumption that is totally incorrect.

If the link is intended as a joke it might be better to clarify it as such, it does take up one third of the whole article.
Apologies if there is a link between the two articles that I have missed.

Kind regards

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