W3C creates the technical specifications regarded by the Web Community at large as "Web standards", but to lead the Web to its full potential, it must ensure that its deliverables - W3C Recommendations - are implemented correctly. W3C has decided to take a new lead in improving the quality of implementation for W3C technologies. The Quality Assurance Activity (as described in the Activity Statement) gathers and formalizes QA efforts for the various languages and protocols developed by W3C (see the matrix).
If your company or organization is a member of W3C, you can help
the Quality Assurance effort at W3C if your organization commits
resources to join the Quality Assurance Working Group.
[learn more].
Alternatively, you can also help by participating in the Quality
Assurance Interest Group [Learn more]
If you have not started the Quality Assurance work in your Working Group yet, have a look at our QA Primer and QA Handbook to get leads on how to proceed with QA in your group, or contact the QA Working Group to get a more specialized answer.
You can help improve the quality of the Web by participating in the Quality Assurance Interest Group (QAIG), in fields such as Education or Tools development. [Learn more]
W3C's QA news are also available as a RSS feed.
30 August 2004: After an intense editing work, a new version of the QA Framework documents has been published: The QA Handbook, The Specification Guidelines, Variability in Specifications. (News archive)
23 July 2004: Updates of the popular W3C Markup Validator (bugfix release) (announcement) and W3C Link Checker (feature-full release with new support for robots exclusion protocol) (announcement). (News archive)
1 July 2004: The May/June 2004 issue of the monthly summary of the activity in and around the mailing-lists of QA has just been published, and contains clear and immediate access to most of the recent important news and discussions about QA at W3C: the status of the QA Framework documents, the minutes of the latest face-to-face meeting, a discussion on extensibility, and more. (News archive).
20 June 2004: Web design site SitePoint recently published a clear and concise introduction to the Log Validator. (News archive)
10 June 2004: A lot of recent activity within the W3C QA Tools development effort, with the recent releases of the popular W3C Markup Validator, a beta test for the W3C Link Checker, and a new version of the quality-focused Web server log analysis tool Log Validator. (News archive)
News archive for year 2004, year 2003, year 2002, year 2001
Resources of the Quality Assurance Activity at W3C are divided into the QA Library and the QA Toolbox.
The QA Library has links to all documents about, produced by, and maintained by the Quality Assurance Activity at W3C, including the Quality Assurance Framework, tutorials, notes, etc.
The QA Toolbox holds a list of QA Tools, Validators, Tests, maintained at W3C.
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