Think going to the DMV is bad? Try suffering through the Department of Treasury's official securities site.
You don’t need to be a user interface designer to spot a bad-looking site. Hell, anyone who spent any time on the internet in the days pre-Facebook might remember bland, white webpages, tiny font, and links upon links upon links like a black hole slowly sucking you into the great whirlpool expanse of incomprehensible electronic morass.
The standards have improved since then, or at least they have for most sites. Government websites have long been notorious for lagging behind the rest of the world in both usability and appearance.from Information Technology & Innovation Foundation found that a grand total of 92% of 297 of the most popular government websites failed to meet basic standards for an even passable site.
These government sites at the time failed in multiple ways. A little less than 60% of them were mobile friendly. Just 36% loaded relatively fast on mobile devices since they don’t automatically compress images or loading first-visible parts of the site first. Only 58% were accessible to users with disabilities, especially for those with eyesight-related issues.
The government has had some problems with creating new sites in the past, like the infamous rollout of
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