Archive for 07/12/2008

W3C Compliant

Our new website has just been verified as W3C (The World Wide Web Consortium) compliant. In a direct quote from the W3C website ‘The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C’s primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability.’ For example you will see that on our site all the fonts are scalable, so that visitors with sight difficulties can view the site at a comfortable font size for them.

Just beware though. There are some companies testing your site and cold calling to talk to you about W3C in a marketing drive for their business. As always just beware and check things out with your website designer or developer first.

Why have a quality system?

Many moons ago Companies where encouraged to have an auditable quality system (BS5750) and where pursuaded to achieve this so they would get increased sales. A bit of a falasy - the more up to date view is that to achieve ISO 9000 / 2000 you need an auditable business process. Having said this it all comes down to what benefits the Compnay is going to get by going through the process:

  • Reduced costs?
  • Improved customer service?
  • Customer compliance?
  • ?

Unless there are real benefits what’s the point in doing it? Don’t forget there are at least two stages to the process:

  1. How you run your business now.
  2. How you can improve this - continuous improvement

We at EMS are well equipped to help you with the above. Contact us if you have a requirement.

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