John Allsop's paper on the state of Australian web development is work a look.
In a way, I found the results somewhat depressing. I had expected quite a bit better, to be frank.In terms of validation, structural and semantic HTML and accessibility, there is little evidence that the significant majority of sites are doing things any differently than half a decade ago.
But on reflection, if we had done this survey or five years ago, we would have found little if any CSS, few if any doctype declarations, even fewer alt attributes, even more use of images for text.
He doesn't look at any education websites, so we escaped scrutiny.
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