With a new Administration now comfortably in office, and the Web Standards pretty clearly the Law of the Land, I can't help but look around at the COV Web World and ask, "Do What?"
From the top of the Executive Branch down, it looks like no one even knows what the Internet is, much less what to do with it. The Secretary of Administration's site, like so many other cabinet sites, is thread-bare. You can barely tell that the SOTECH has anything to do with technology (unless the COVITS ad somehow tells you that). And the Attorney General's Office - who I thought was part of the Executive Branch - acts like they didn't even know there was a Standard.
Don't even get me started on the VITA site, the folks who supposedly wrote the Web Standard. Maybe for the $20 million they're paying Virginia.gov, or the $2 billion they're paying NG, someone could crack open a copy of Dreamweaver and get onboard with the rest of us. Hello? How much of a lead do you people need?
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I thought VITA and Virginia.gov wrote the standards? Why would they not be able to meet them?
Jeez...
Anyone surprised? So, I guess this means no one else has to work hard on their sites, either?
The state is slow to remove junk clogging the webways, case in point: http://www.virginia.gov/disc/messages/23/24.html?FridayMarch820020800pm
They cleaned it up.
I just have to wonder, does anyone even care about the citizens anymore? All these web pages with all their bells and whistles that work great for the people who made them, but are next to useless to those of us who didn't grow up with an ipod. I don't have a 20 inch plasma screen monitor, I don't have the most steady hands or a broadband connection. So I guess that means I stick with the library and the newspaper.
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