Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004:
QA For IWMW 2004 Web Site

About This Document

This document provides access to descriptions of the quality assurance policies and procedures for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004 Web site. The aims of the QA policies and procedures are to help ensure that the Web site is functional, widely accessible, maintainable and interoperable.

Please note that this page should be used in conjunction with the technical architecture of the IWMW 2004 Web site page.

Formats

Policies

Policy on HTML and CSS

The Web site will make use of XHTML 1.0 and CSS 2.0 which will be compliant with the standards.

Exceptions

Resources which are automatically generated from propprietary formats such as MS Word and MS PowerPoint need not comply with the HTML standard due to the limitations of the conversion software.

Policy on Other Formats

The Web site will provide access to MS PowerPoint files used by speakers. A HTML version of the slides will be made available alongside the PowerPoint version. The Web site will provide access to a small number of MS Word files, such as evaluation forms. Since these files are intended for printing a HTML version of the files will not be provided.

Checking Procedures

When pages are created or updated:

• the ,validate tool will be used (by appending the term to the URL) in order to ensure the HTML is valid
• the ,checklink tool will be used (by appending the term to the URL) in order to ensure that links from the page are functional.

Periodically (when significant numbers of new pages are created or new areas set up:

• the ,rvalidate tool will be used (by appending the term to the URL) in order to ensure the HTML is valid for the page and pages beneath it.
• the ,rchecklink tool will be used (by appending the term to the URL) in order to ensure that links from the page and pages beneath it are functional.
• the ,cssvalidate tool will be used (by appending the term to the URL) in order to ensure that CSS for the page is valid.

Audit Trail

The ,rvalidate and ,rchecklink tools canb bve used to check the Web site started from the home page:

• Validate using the ,rvalidate tool.
• Check links using the ,rvalidate tool.

Audit trails of the output from these tools are available:

• Report on use of the ,rvalidate tool:
  Audit - 14 July 2004
• Report on use of the ,rchecklink tool:
  Audit - 14 July 2004

 

Wide Accessibility

Policy

Resources on the Web site should be usable by a wide range of Web browsers.

Resources on the Web site should seek to comply with at least WAI A guidelines. In particular meaningful alt tags for images should be used and the Web site should be functional with display of images and JavaScript disabled.

Compliance Procedures

The Web site editor will make use of the IE, Opera, and Mozilla Web browsers when managing the Web site.

Audit Trails

On 14^th July 2004 Brian Kelly disabled the display of images in the Mozilla browser and successully accesed all areas of the Web site linked in from the navigational bar.

On 14^th July 2004 Brian Kelly disabled JavaScript in the Phoenix browser and successully accesed all areas of the Web site linked in from the navigational bar.

Functionality

Policy

Interactive aspects of the Web site, such as the online booking forms, should be functional.

Compliance Procedures

The Web site editor will test the forms using a variety of input data including data containing unusual characters. The output files created will be checked in order to ensure that data has not been corrupted by the workflow process.

Audit Trail

Prior to launch of the online booking forms the forms were tested.

Interoperability

Policy

Resources on the Web site should be usable by user agents other than standard Web browsers.

Compliance Procedures

In order to test the interoperability of the Web site the Web site was downloaded to a Palm IIIc PDA using the Avantgo serive and pages accessed on the device. This will indicate that resources on the Web site can be processed by user agents other than a Web browser.

Audit Trail

The IWMW 2004 Web site was installed on a Palm IIc PDA usign Avantgo on 17^th July 2004 and the main areas of the Web site were successfully accessed.