Apparently the launch of 10 Downing Street didn’t worked quite well for a few developers.
It’s a simple WordPress theme updated with new features, not so clean codes and enhanced with social gadgets.
Enabled with Flickr, Delicio and Twitters panel, no related posts, comments disabled… reads like the description of any WP Theme.

Some stirs were up like Beta Label As Poor Excuse, 10 Downing Street WordPress Website Knock-off and Rip-off, Open Source, and is the site any good?, as well as some CSS references with no credits or payment included for the original author, followed by some “facts” of newmediamaze.

The site has BASIC accessibility errors and is riddled with invalid mark-up and it’s certainly not anywhere near acheiving a WCAG-aa pass (including manual checks).

That Accessibility page does nothing for the user other than repeat the usual “offer the basic facts regarding an initiative while failing to fully implement them with any understanding of the underlying principles – all likely of NO VALUE to the user or at best, offering what they already know (such as text resizing – oh dear!).

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