[Websg Meetup] Launch of MOE Website

[Coleman Yee]

I'll definitely blog about it soon.

Offhand, here are some of my suggestions for the new WIS:

- the usual - web standards, accessibility
- standard semantics (this may need some study)
- require print css

Do they allow 'industry experts' into the committee? :)


On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Lucian Teo <lucian.teo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
> This is a personal email. :P
>
> The MOE website has finally been launched, after more than a year in the
> works (I've been doing a million other things of course). Go check it out at
>
> www.moe.gov.sg
>
> It violates the more anal-retentive parts of the Web Interface Standards,
> which all .gov.sg websites need comply (but don't). It exceeds the WIS in
> many other areas such as semantics and accessibility.
>
> Here's where I need your help. It has always been my intention to launch
> the MOE website and use it as a paradigm to change the web scene, at least
> in government organisations. The WIS (web interface standards) police have
> already come knocking on my email box, asking if I will comply with stupid
> things ("you need a perpetual poll asking visitors how they find the site").
> I've managed to hold them off so far.
>
> The WIS is due for a review, and I've asked to be on that committee. If
> you could blog about the MOE site - what works and what doesn't - it'll help
> validate it in the eyes of my <del>oppressors</del> employers, as well as
> the guys in charge of the WIS.
>
> So please take a look see, blog your pants off, and punch a hole in the
> backward web2.0 world of the gahmen.
>
> I'll do what I can from then on.
>
>
> Lucian
>
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