Scoring

A great deal of effort has gone into ensuring that the RAID scoring system covers all the elements required to produce a well rounded, usable website. After much deliberation and testing eight sections of investigation were specified as follows - Graphic Design, Programming, Site Content, Usability, Search Engine Optimisation, Accessibility, Interaction and Legal Requirements

Each of the eight areas of evaluation are broken down into further sections to give a total of 44 sub-categories. Each of these sub-categories is given a weighting dependant on the perceived importance of the topic in question.

A pass is achieved by perfoming well over the whole of the criteria expressed as a total score. Generally good scores are required right across the board but an overall pass level is still possible with one area or section of weakness.