TechNayak

[digg=http://www.digg.com/design/Usability_Standards_for_websites_is_it_the_future_of_the_web]I hear a lot about usability around the blogosphere and frankly am impressed with the efforts coprorations are taking to help physically or visually challenged people utilize their services. Matt Bailey maintains writes the accessability blog, whereas Dr T V Raman from Google keeps writing updates on the Google Blog with his ground breaking work on usability.

After some reading up on usability, I have found that very small, and I mean very small, amount of websites are actually perfectly accesible. Web 2.0 also did not help in terms of usability with dynamic behavior aka Ajax playing a devastating role. The medium of accesing the internet has changed dramatically from just a browser to hand helds, to xBox’s, Screen readers for the visually impaired. Its more than an arduous task to develop websites that adhere to usability standards. The problem arises from javascript to layouts, dynamically changing DOM etc. Are these generics like usability, internationalisation, collaboration etc becoming a standard for the future or are considered hinderance to the evolving web is still yet to be seen. Will the next evolution of the web see these aspects or will the underlying technologies like browsers, screen readers or handhelds will evolve alongside the web and pave a path to easy standards? Could this be the next big profession? Comments awaited …..