Most Government Web Sites Too Advanced, Survey Says
By Ronald Roach
PROVIDENCE, R.I.
The Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University released the results of their fourth annual survey on the readability of U.S. e-government Web sites. Examining more than 1,600 state and local government Web sites, as well as 60 federal sites, the results revealed that the average government Web site is written at the 11th-grade level, despite the fact that half of all Americans read at the eighth-grade level or lower.
