Despite making the eGovernment web guidelines compulsory, the State Services Commission’s new Treaty of Waitangi website does not measure up to their own standards.

Personally, I understand how this can happen, having worked in the real world and government. However, although we have not yet seen the big stick of guideline compliance weilded by the EGU I think that they would be critical of any other agency that produced a new site like this.

It will be interesting to see the fallout over the next few days.

This:

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works well in IE, but not in Mozilla. As is often said by them: not everyone has the latest technology or standard setup.