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Lofton Henderson and Dominique Hazaël-Massieux have prepared together a questionnaire which has been sent to editors of W3C specifications. The survey is a first step in determining what, if anything, we
might be able to provide in terms of common tools and techniques to help
authors. Depending on the outcome, QAWG may put resources into prototype(s).
See Thread:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2002Sep/0003.html
The next QA F2F meeting is approaching. We remind to people that it's a joint meeting WG and IG and that it is open to the participation of every people. The location and the agenda of the meeting will give you details if you wish to attend.
The Show and Tell part will help you to understand technologies and methodologies related to EARL and Test Suites. It's a unique oppotunity for you to learn a bit more about quality work applied to W3C technologies.
To promote the Specification Guidelines, it has been decided by the QA Working Group to apply to the specifications we are writing to apply the QA Specification Guidelines itself. It will help to illustrate the quality of the specification and raises hidden issues.
See Thread :
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002Sep/0007.html
The language being the vehicle of our ideas, it is very important to be as exact as possible for the definitions we use in the specifications we are writing. The discussion is trying to define the testability of a specification and to not, by definition, classify some specifications out of scope by their nature.
See Thread :
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa/2002Sep/thread.html#21
Just a reminder for people who wants to integrate quality in their Web sites production and development. The QA Team has produced some articles that might help you.
You are in charge of a website and you want easy, painless techniques and ideas to improve your Web site quality and make your Web site valid, you can read My Web site is standard! And yours?
You want to create a Web site for your organization or your company and you would like to know the set of requirements you can give to the Web agency, read Buy standards compliant Web sites.
You are a user and you would like that the Web site of your company, organization, school, etc be of quality. You can read all about a face-to-face strategy for web-quality education and outreach : Think globally, Act locally.
Final minutes QA WG September 4th, 2002, Scribe Mark Skall.
