Web site Evaluation
Many organizations are using web sites as an economical and effective way to communicate with the community and the world at large. With the growth of the Internet, there are groups of people who are establishing standards for web pages. One set of standards are the Federal Section 508 Standards. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is also setting standards for good web page code writing. Many librarians are striving to establish standards. They call for common documentation elements that should appear on each page, like those that all books have in common. |
Gather some of these standards.
Examine your school's web site
Who should set the standards for a government entity like a school district?
Does the web site comply with the Federal Section 508 standards?
Should the district be required to comply?
Who is "harmed" by the failure to comply?
Use the standards to evaluate a web page of a business.
Does the web page comply with the standards you have selected?
Should the owner be required to comply?
Who is "harmed" by the failure to comply?
Use the standards to evaluate a web page for a charity like the Bill of Rights Institute.
Does the web page comply with the standards you have selected?
Should the author be required to comply?
Who is "harmed" by the failure to comply?
Now consider a personal web site.
Should the author be required to comply with other people's web standards?
Is anyone "harmed" by the failure to comply?
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developed by Cynthia J. O'Hora Released to public domain in honor of Steve Wozniak. Posted 12/2007
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