In the lead up to the Scottish elections, internet experts in the Digital Media Access Group found that some of the political parties' websites detailing their manifestos were not fully accessible to elderly and disabled voters.
A selection of key accessible web design guidelines were used to gauge how accessible manifesto information would be to people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, cognitively impaired, motor-impaired or have dyslexia. The study revealed that most party sites would present serious accessibility problems to some disabled users. Many sites, including those of Scottish Labour and Scottish Conservatives failed to follow basic accessibility guidelines.