- From: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 22:18:30 +0100
- To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Cc: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, site-comments@w3.org, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
On 1 February 2011 21:01, Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> wrote: >> I'd also love to know what factors impact credibility more than the >> public (and industry) face of the organisation. What you might call >> the World Wide Web aspect of the W3C. > > To name two: > > * The quality of the content Ok, that's true enough in general. But when much of the content is about recommendations, guidelines etc, when those recommendations and guidelines aren't followed to (and even beyond) the letter on the site, problems that would be considered trivial elsewhere become significant. For example the recent comment with the gloriously vitriolic subject "W3 still a leader in inconsistency and hypocrisy" [1]. I had hoped for something really meaty when that landed in my inbox. Alas its primary evidence was that http://www.w3.org/ has an effective body font size of 88.56%, somewhat contrary to the QA suggestion "Avoid sizes in em smaller than 1em for text body". Fair enough, that's quite an extreme reaction, but it does show how sensitive people can be to these things. In essence it's perfectly rational, I'd think twice about buying a book on photography which had an unintentionally blurred cover. > * The quality of the environment in which people work Sorry, you lost me there. Cheers, Danny. [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/site-comments/2011Jan/0018.html -- http://danny.ayers.name
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