Good Practice

At an away day on 17th August 2005, the HE Academy technical group made a stab at creating a Statement of Good Practice for the running of web sites.

• Annotated version (in progress)
• Version 0.3: the current version, only slightly different from v0.2 Feedback on this from W3C Quality Assurance Interest Group
• Version 0.2: substantially rewritten
• Version 0.1: what we ended up with on 17th August

Criteria for inclusion: What are the objectives of the statement?
Links to similar prior efforts and relevant organisations

I've had a lot of useful feedback on this from the W3C Quality Assurance evangelists, which I will implement on this site when I get past a current block of more urgent work.

The statement is vague to an extent, not machine-checkable. Having a very precise set of criteria that would apply to every kind of site running every kind of web technology seems like too tall an order. Instead it's something that webmasters can work towards. It's not like an externally-applied "badge". The closest existing analogy is the "Content-enhanced: use any browser" campaign (see Links ). Or perhaps the Hippocratic Oath.

This could possibility be promoted through sites in the education support sector (HE Academy, ILRT), and possibly through bodies such as the W3C Quality Assurance group or the Web Standards Project (see links above).

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