Re: w3.org site-wide markup review?

Ian Jacobs <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.site-comments,gmane.org.w3c.accessibility.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 1 Feb 2011, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote:

> Ian
>
> what is the hold on an independent external audit?
>
> an audit to assess whether and to what extent  W3C is meeting the  
> goals it sets?
>
> this was apparently under-discussion at the time.

Hi Jonathan,

Still no plans for an external audit. (I don't think that's what Danny  
was referring to; I understood Danny's comments to be about site QA.)

  _ Ian

>
> regards
>
> Jonathan
>
>>> ). But
>>> given the W3C's key role in producing the relevant specs and
>>> guidelines, there's a good case for saying its own pages should be
>>> subject to far higher standards of quality control than any other on
>>> the Web. Best practices, leading by example and all that.
>>>
>>> A good way for dealing with this would be for the W3C to instigate  
>>> an
>>> independent review,
>>
>> Hi Danny,
>>
>> I appreciate any offer of tools to help us maintain pages that  
>> people use, and where the tool ends up lowering our costs.
>>
>> This list is one way people raise awareness about page problems,  
>> and I read the list and fix the ones that we are maintaining and  
>> can be fixed.
>>
>> _ Ian
>>
>>
>
>

--
Ian Jacobs ([email protected])    http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/
Tel:                                      +1 718 260 9447
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.