- From: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 09:04:19 -0600
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org, site-comments@w3.org, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
On 1 Feb 2011, at 9:01 AM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > Ian > > what is the hold on an independent external audit? > > an audit to assess whether and to what extent W3C is meeting the > goals it sets? > > this was apparently under-discussion at the time. Hi Jonathan, Still no plans for an external audit. (I don't think that's what Danny was referring to; I understood Danny's comments to be about site QA.) _ Ian > > regards > > Jonathan > >>> ). But >>> given the W3C's key role in producing the relevant specs and >>> guidelines, there's a good case for saying its own pages should be >>> subject to far higher standards of quality control than any other on >>> the Web. Best practices, leading by example and all that. >>> >>> A good way for dealing with this would be for the W3C to instigate >>> an >>> independent review, >> >> Hi Danny, >> >> I appreciate any offer of tools to help us maintain pages that >> people use, and where the tool ends up lowering our costs. >> >> This list is one way people raise awareness about page problems, >> and I read the list and fix the ones that we are maintaining and >> can be fixed. >> >> _ Ian >> >> > > -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ Tel: +1 718 260 9447
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