extended ISO 9126

Hi EOWG-members,

A bit more information about the ISO-stuff I mentioned in the call last Friday.
There is an organization in the Netherlands called SERC (Software Engineering Research Centre) see http://www.serc.nl/english/
They have published a book with the title "Quality of software products" sub-title 'experiences from praxis with a quality model" on how to achieve a software product with quality. It is based on the use of the ISO 9126-model, but they composed an Extended ISO-model. This means that they took the original ISO-model attributes and added in an extended model 11 new attributes  e.g availability, degradability, user-friendliness, reusability and more.

A banking company who uses this model for software development came across our "accessibility mission " and was interested to know whether their PC-banking product also meets the accessibility checkpoints and asked for a review of their product.

Now he proposed to imply the software accessibility issues in the extended ISO-9126 model in the way users of this extended model will pay attention to accessibility too.

Is this a good thing, is one of you also involved in something like this?

Regards,
Henk


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H. Snetselaar
Bartimeus Educational Institute for the Blind and Partially Sighted
Utrechtseweg 84, 3702 AD  Zeist, the Netherlands
Tel: +31-(0)30-6982211 or +31(0)30-6982350
Fax: +31-(0)30-6982347
E-mail: H.Snetselaar@bartimeus.nl
Website: www.bartimeus.nl and www.accessibility.nl
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Received on Monday, 9 April 2001 09:05:43 UTC