QA For Web Sites: Implementing QA

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QA For Web SitesImplementing QA
http//www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/presentations/ili-
2004/
Talk 7

• Brian Kelly
• UKOLN
• University of Bath
• Bath

Email B.Kelly_at_ukoln.ac.uk
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Review

• We have
• Discussed the various problems we may experience
  on our Web sites
• Recognised that problems can now affect
  mission-critical services
• Looked at various testing tools and procedures
• Discovered that tools may have limitations
• Identified the limitations of testing and QC
• Outlined the need for QA documented policies
  and systematic compliance procedures

How do we ensure that we embed QA in our working
practices?
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Next Steps

• Our next steps could be
• Embedding QA because we have to
• Embedding QA because we want to
• Ignore QA

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QA Is Mandated

• We may find that funding bodies mandate projects
  to implement QA procedures
• This is happening for JISC programmes
• This helps JISC to
• Ensure value for money for its funding
• Protect public investment
• Help to ensure that project deliverables are
  interoperable with (a) other projects and (b)
  other programmes

Compliance with eGIF may require QA
implementation Compliance with accessibility
legislation may require implementation of QA (cf.
organisations must take reasonable measures
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QA Is Chosen

• You may recognise the benefits of QA and wish to
  implement QA in your organisation
• Challenges
• Convincing others
• Justifying time and effort

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Ignore QA

• You may decide
• Workshop was interesting, but ideas arent
  relevant
• Its somebody elses problem
• Its sees to costly to implement
• Inertia rules
• My new CMS will solve all our problems
• Were moving to XML, and that will solve all our
  problems
• Workshop was a waste of time, learnt nothing,
  ideas flawed,

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Personal Action Plans

• Please complete the personal action plan handout
• This is for your own use but feel free to share
  any comments you think may be useful to others