Any good developer can eat that stuff up in a few days. Spell out high order laws, and let's start working on the details. If not, hang it up. Usability folks are often on the outside of projects. They are called in as hired guns and they are often late to the show.
Usability only holds the weakest part of the corporate mindshare.
Even after explaining and justifying the value of usability, and trying to explain how it is not QA, most managers think developers are doing usability. For a variety of reasons, business decisions do not wait for usability. In fact, as I have stated, there is a perception that usability gets in the way of development. That is a perception that kills usability. Speaking of developers, they often dislike usability folks.