Headlights2013/SiteRedesign/CombinedSurvey
Overall sequence
- Identity
- For everyone
- General
- For everyone
- Member
- Just for those who self-identified as Members
- Group
- Just for those who self-identified (Member or not) as Chair, Team Contact, or Editor
- End
- We can invite anyone who wishes to have a deeper conversation to contact Ian Jacobs.
- Should we offer a gift to a randomly selected person who has completed the survey?
Identity
- How would you describe yourself?
- Web designer
- Web application developer
- User experience designer/information architect/content strategist
- Project manager
- Web technology engineer
- Department head
- Other: Please specify (text field)
- Do you work for a W3C Member? (Link to http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List) (Yes/no)
- What types of groups do you participate in (select all applicable)
- Working Group
- Interest Group
- Community Group
- Business Group
- Advisory Board
- Advisory Committee
- TAG
- None (mutually exclusive)
- What roles (if any) do you have within a W3C group?
- Chair
- Team contact
- Editor
- Test manager
- None (mutually exclusive)
General
Public home page
- How often do you visit the W3C home page (w3.org)? (radio)
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- A few times a year
- I have never visited the W3C home page
- Other: Please specify (text field)
- What do you use on the current home page or are important to you? (check boxes)
- News
- W3C blog
- Talks and Events
- Links to jobs
- Links to validators
- Links to standards and other materials
- Member testimonial
- Please rank the importance of the following information found on the W3C home page from 1 to 10 The most important information will be #1. (numeric rank)
- (Same list)
- # What features or improvements would you most like to see on the public home page? (text field)
Technical Reports
- Rank the following in terms of importance to you:
- Better Typography
- Narrower column width
- Less status information up front
- Clearer indication when document has been superseded
- Clearer indication of document maturity (on the recommendation track)
- Integration with related materials (tests, developer documentation, etc.)
- Tools for making it easier to review and comment on a specification
- Other (text field)
- Which filter options on the TR page (w3.org/TR) do you most use? (radio)
- All (the default)
- Standards only
- Drafts only
- Review opportunities
- Which sorting options on the TR page (w3.org/TR) do you most use? (radio)
- Technology (the default)
- Status
- Date
- Title
- Working/Interest Group
- Editor
- Do you have any recommendations for the index of W3C technical reports (http://www.w3.org/TR/)? (text field)
- Are the “current status” pages useful (example: http://www.w3.org/standards/techs/css)? (yes/no/didn't know they existed)
- Are the labels listed on the TR page (http://www.w3.org/TR/) useful? (yes/no/didn't know they existed)
Other parts of the site
- Why do you visit the W3C site? Check all that apply.
- Find W3C specifications
- Find out whether something is a Recommendation
- Find how well a specification is implemented in browsers and other software
- HTML elements and attributes
- CSS properties and values
- Accessibility Guidelines
- Working Group News
- Overview of current W3C work relevant to a given industry (e.g,. automotive, digital publishing)
- How to participate in W3C
- How to become a W3C Member
- List of W3C Members
- Learn about the Web
- W3C validator
- Test suites
- Tutorials
- Other: Please specify (text field)
- For the same list, rank the 5 most important reasons you visit the W3C Web site. Allow user to specify and rank "other" as well.
- What features or improvements would you most like to see in the future on the public site (other than on the public home page)? (text field)
- Is the site map useful to you? (yes/no)
- If so, why? (text field)
- What information have you had difficulty finding? (text field)
- Please rank the following: (defined scale: poor -- excellent)
- Usefulness of Search function
- Ease of navigation
- Organization of information
- Value of content to you
Member
Member home page
- How often do you visit the Member site home page? (https://www.w3.org/Member/)? (radio)
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- A few times a year
- I have never visited the Member home page.
- I have never visited the Member home page and didn't even know there was one!
- Other: Please specify (text field)
- What features or improvements would you most like to see on a Member home page? (text field)
- Should the Member home page become a customized “dashboard” with information or links specific to you, such as: identity (name, affiliation), lists of group membership with your organization, etc.? (yes/no)
General
- What sections of the Member Web site do you most use?
- Calendar of Member Events
- Member Actions, News, Mail, Discussion
- Process, Patent Policy, Finances Guide
- Member Standards Promotion
- Membership Administrivia
- List of AC Reps
- Staff FTE tables (summarized by activity)
- What information have you had difficulty finding? (text field)
- What features or improvements would you most like to see in the Member site (other than to the Member home page) in the future? (text field)
- Because much useful information to Members is actually on the public site, please indicate how important it is to you to access that information from the Member site? (defined scale: Not important -- Essential)
- If important to you, which links to the public site are most important for you to find from the Member site?
Group
Group home pages
- Would you find it useful if W3C were to provide templates for group home pages? (yes/no)
- Do you think it would be useful to distinguish a group's public home page (for visitors) from its "operations" home page (which would also be public, but focus on meeting details, etc.)? (yes/no)
- If so, what information would you put on the group's public home page?
- If so, what information would you put on the group's public operations home page?