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• Summary
• Accessibility of Forms Posted on This Website
• This Website vs Governmental Websites
• Copyright
  • Blank Forms
  • Publications Incorporating U. S. Government Works
  • Software
• Forms Posted on This Website vs Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Improvements
• Options that are Absolutely Necessary
• Export and Import Options
• Basic Statistics: This Website
• Basic Statistics: Governmental Websites
  • Fillable Forms
  • Damaged Forms
  • Good vs Bad in Statistics
• Forms vs Instructions
• Errors in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• About Scrolling Affect in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Elements of Low Quality in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Elements of Low Quality in Some U.S. Federal Government Forms' Webpages
• Fields Ignored in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Checkboxes vs Radiobuttons in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Checkboxes vs Text Fill-in Space in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Useless Elements in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
  • 'Save Data', 'Load Data', 'eMail Form' Buttons
  • 'Add Page' Buttons
• Automatic Calculations in Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
• Reconstruction of Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites
  • Fillable Forms
  • Non-fillable Forms
• Process Used by U.S. Federal Government Agencies to Make Forms Fillable
• What is the Loss of American People as a Result of Problems with Forms Posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites?
• Bureaucratic System Factor
• Traditional Filing vs Electronic Submission
  • Problems with Creation of Electronic Submission Systems
  • Problems with Systems of Electronic Submission
  • Today and Tomorrow of the Electronic Submission
• Reality vs Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA)

Summary

• Access to all U.S. Federal Government forms posted on this Website is completely free, instant, unlimited.
• About 17,000 U.S. Federal Government forms posted on this Website are dramatically improved forms posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites. There are dozens of improvements (including an option to export and import data in Acrobat Reader running offline).
• All forms posted on this Website are fillable. In contrast, the number of fillable forms posted on the U.S. Federal Government Websites is about 4,000.
• The fill-in forms posted on this Website are created by Insert-Text-Anywhere-on-Page (ITAOP) method. The ITAOP method is the only realistic option to create a large set of high-quality forms. The speed is much faster than traditional Field-by-Field (FBF) method. The quality is much better.
• There is a long list of errors and elements of low quality in fillable forms posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites. As a result, an average user is unable to fill-in even the 'fillable' forms posted on the government Websites.
• The traditional Field-by-Field (FBF) method used by U.S. Federal Government Agencies is extremely ineffective and slow. It can be used only to create a relatively small number of fillable pages. Clearly it is impossible to create tens of thousands of fillable forms with hundreds of thousands of pages, millions of fields by this method (with respect to the time-frame and number of government employees involved).
• The system of electronic (HTML) online submission of all government forms is not realistic currently. Since U.S. federal government agencies are unable accomplish a single task: to add fill-in fields to tens of thousands of already existing forms in PDF format, it is illogical to expect from U.S. federal government agencies to be able to accomplish both tasks: to recreate all the forms AND to add all the fields in HTML format.
• The Government Paperwork Elimination Act (GPEA) is not realistic while government agencies continue to use the traditional Field-by-Field (FBF) method -- the only method available to them.
• The direct loss of American people as a result of problems with tens of thousands of forms posted on U.S. Federal Government Websites is tens of billions (if not hundreds of billions) of dollars per year. Plus the indirect loss (that is much bigger than the direct loss).
• The situation with the gigantic number of forms posted on the Websites of the 50 states is not better than with the federal forms.
• The financial loss per month caused by problems with all the government form system is not only bigger than the cost of Iraq (both war and rebuilding) per month, but even bigger than the cost of all the war on terrorism. As a defense-related example, the number of fillable forms of the United States Department of Army is zero out of 1589.

Accessibility of Forms Posted on This Website

• To fill in any form
  
• To edit, correct, modify all your answers in any form.
• To click any of user-friendly buttons in any form.
• To print any number of quality copies of any form.

1. All non-fillable forms are converted to fillable.
2. The fillability of all fillable forms is dramatically improved.
3. All detected errors removed.
4. All damaged files repaired (except one, non-repairable).
5. Elements of law quality removed.
6. Useless elements removed.
7. Free technical support is available.

1. To insert text anywhere on page and in any rotation.
2. To export and import text (along with text size, text color, text font, text position) -- for all the form, for any page, or for any range of pages -- by a click of button.
3. To change text size, font, color, vertical and horizontal positions -- for all the form or for any line -- by a click of button.
4. To type in text of any length to fit in the fill-in space regardless of the size of the space.
5. To copy line into line, a set of lines into a set of lines, or a page into a page -- by a click of button.
6. To have the text perfectly aligned horizontally and vertically.
7. To reset (delete, erase) all the text inserted into the form or a line by a click of button.
8. To convert a fill-in space rectangle to visible or hidden automatically every time the rectangle is in focus.
9. To convert the text color to black automatically every time the PRINT button is pressed.
10. To avoid the scrolling affect.
11. To submit any technical support questions by a click of button.

1. Number of questions to answer
2. Complexity of each question

• to check the data entered
• to correct the data entered
• to modify the data entered

1. Only 4,000+ forms are fillable (while thousands of others are not).
2. There are many errors and elements of low quality inside those 4,000+ forms.
3. The most important features (export/import, text size modification, etc.) are absent.

1. United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Number of fillable forms: 57 out of 124.
2. United States Department of Defense. Number of fillable departmental forms: 935 out of 955.
3. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Number of fillable forms, year 2002: 525 out of 643 (584 files out of 1227 are instructions and publications).
4. Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Number of fillable forms, year 2003: 541 out of 631 (592 files out of 1223 are instructions and publications).

1. United States Postal Service (USPS). Number of fillable forms: 1 out of 116
2. United States Department of Army. Number of fillable forms: 0 out of 1589
3. Social Security Administration. Number of fillable forms: 0 out of 61.

1. Scrolling Affect.
2. Listbox fields with no items.
3. Combobox fields with no items.
4. Hidden fields not in use.
5. Electronic signature fields not in use.
6. Button fields not in use (with no JavaScript, no Readonly).

1. Incorrect name of form
2. Incorrect government sub-agency
3. Incorrect modification date
4. Incorrect fillability: fillable forms listed as non-fillable; nonfillable forms listed as fillable.

1. 232,000+ scrolling affect fields with no character limit (the most dangerous form of scrolling affect).
2. 142,000+ scrolling affect fields with character limit greater than one (a little less dangerous form of scrolling affect).
3. 26,000+ scrolling affect fields with character limit equal to one (non-dangerous form of scrolling affect).

1. Inaccurate adjustment of field sizes: width & height
2. Inaccurate alignment of fields: horizontally (line by line) & vertically (column by column)
3. Inaccurate tab order
4. Invisible field rectangles
5. Ignored fields

1. No form directories
2. No user friendly form directories
3. No form directory by form number
4. No form directory by form name
5. No form directory by form category
6. No form directory by subagency
7. No 'browse' option
8. No 'search' option

1. Radiobuttons
2. Listboxes
3. Comboboxes

1. Old fillability features removed.
2. New fillability features added.
3. JavaScript added.
4. Line-by-line buttons added.
5. Control panel with buttons added.

1. Fillability features added.
2. JavaScript added.
3. Line-by-line buttons added.
4. Control panel with buttons added.

1. Field properties.
2. Field positions.
3. Field names.

1. Typical bureaucrats do not like anything new, anything that can bring changes. In any bureaucratic system, the changes usually bring only headache (not the benefits) to the employees.
2. To use new methods, the government employees must learn these methods. In any bureaucratic system, the learning usually brings headache (not the benefits) to the employees.
3. To use new methods bureaucrats usually need signatures of a few higher-ranking government employees. For example, a Web director of one of state government Websites informed us that four signatures are required in their agency for such decision.
4. In any bureaucratic system, the decisions, the signatures usually bring responsibilities (not the benefits). As a result, a typical bureaucrat will not even disturb a higher-level bureaucrat with such questions.

1. Data entry.
2. Form submission.
3. Confirmation of form submission.
4. Signature.

1. To download the form into user's hard drive
2. To fill-in the form offline
3. To export data entered (at any time) offline
4. To import data entered (at any time) into the online form
5. To sign the form electronically
6. To submit form
7. To receive confirmation of submission
8. To resubmit the form (if necessary).

1. American Bar Association (both the Business Law and the Science and Technology Sections);
2. American Bankers Association;
3. National Automated Clearing House Association;
4. National Governors Association;
5. National Association of State Information Resource Executives;
6. National Association of State Auditors, Controllers and Treasurers;
7. National Association of State Purchasing Officers;
8. the Government of Canada;
9. the Government of Australia;
10. the relevant industry forums.

1. Appendix III of Circular A-130 (revised in February 1996)
2. Presidential Decision Directive 63 (issued in May 1998)
3. Report "Access With Trust" (published in September, 1998, by OMB and the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Steering Committee)
4. Presidential Memorandum, "Electronic Government," (published on December 17, 1999)

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