benihana - 9:45 am on May 3, 2007 (gmt 0)

Google really need to get their own house in order first.

My experience of working as part of a (UK) university web team is that:

a) accessiblity is very high priorty
b) SEO is not (rankings happened naturally due to depth and breadth of content)
c) there are too many people involved with publishing, outside of the central team, with varying levels of skills and enthusiasm to have validation across the board (having been called a nazi for banning font tags!) - you cannot police everyone all the time.
d) wide scale change moves at a glacial pace

my2p