Report bashes U.K. government Web sites. (Up front: news, trends & analysis).According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report by diagnostic testing Diagnostic testing Testing performed to determine if someone is affected with a particular disease. Mentioned in: Von Willebrand Disease and monitoring group B2W B2W Back to Work B2W Business-to-Workforce B2W Business-to-Web , U.K. government Web sites have, on average, 600 errors each--that's seven times higher than the average error rate for the United Kingdom's leading 100 companies. B2W tested 55 of the government's top sites and found that more than half had 100 errors and 10 had more than 500. Only one site was error-free. The HM Treasury site was found to have more than 6,000 blunders. Other error-prone Adj. 1. error-prone - capable of making an error; "all men are error-prone" erring fallible - likely to fail or make errors; "everyone is fallible to some degree" sites included the Office of National Statistics, the Department of Health, and the Department of Trade & Industry, which has more than 2,700 broken links on the site alone--an "unacceptable error level,' according to the report. A few sites, including the Equal Opportunities Commission, Local E-Government, and the Child Support Agency, were praised for being virtually error-free. |
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