Usage of Web Standards

This was the main page for the Usage of Web Standards Task Force and will serve as a resource for the activities of the group.

Mission

The Task Force mission is as follows:

• Gather information about the areas where best practice guidelines are needed: best practices will be drawn from the successes (and failures) of efforts at opening, sharing, and re-using knowledge about the use of standards and specifications by government applications that could be collected into a set of best practices with the intent of identifying productive technical paths toward better public services.

• Provide input on how to ease standards compliance: use previous successful experiences in terms of broad government use (such as the Web Accessibility Initiative work) to identify ways for standard bodies to better speak in terms of government needs; for example, additional effort to package, promote, and train on best practices and existing material and tools.

Participants

• Chris Testa (TF coordinator)
• Roberto Castaldo
• Owen Ambur