The latest Alertbox is out, and Jakob is about as bleak as usual in his outlook - Improving Usability Guideline Compliance, which states that it will take fifteen years for the web to attain 90% usability guideline compliance. This is based on two tests of e-commerce sites 1.5 years apart; also assuming linear growth. However with advances such as Amercia's "508" usability legislation, one would hope that usability will increase a little faster. Not just that, but the tools are getting better - Dreamweaver MX makes it pretty easy to at least atttain basic usability, although frustratingly those options have to be turned on manually. Worth a read, at any rate; but as I always say, take a grain of salt - you don't have to agree with everything Jakob says.

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