Opquast becomes an ‘entreprise à mission’
By Élie Sloïm, on 13 April 2021, in Opquast.
It’s been over a year in the making and it is now official: Opquast is an ‘entreprise à mission’ or a ‘purpose-driven company’. So, what does that mean? When the Pacte law came into existence in France, it became possible […]
Costs of non-quality: why web quality assurance is a priority
By Élie Sloïm, on 30 March 2021, in Opquast, Web Quality.
Why should we care about web quality assurance? There was a time when quality assurance, operations and management systems, control procedures and even training and skills acquisition were accounted for as pure expenses or nice to have options. Gradually […]
The Drupal Opquast module is up to date
By Élie Sloïm, on 17 March 2021, in Opquast.
Marc-Antoine Marty updated us this weekend, he has updated the Drupal module with the latest version of the Opquast rules (240 rules 2020). In addition to taking into account the new checklist, the developer also changed the wording of the […]
Download files update
By Élie Sloïm, on 11 February 2021, in Opquast.
We have just updated the checklist files made available on the Opquast.com website. In this update, we made various corrections and replaced the mention of ‘best practices’ with ‘rules’ and finally separated the previous monolingual excel file into two languages: […]
The end of the Opquast best practices?
By Élie Sloïm, on 26 January 2021, in Opquast.
At the beginning, it was just best practices. When we created Opquast in 2004, we decided to name the project Open Quality Standards and list quality best practices for websites. After a few months, I realized that the notion of […]
Opquast ? What’s it all about?
By Élie Sloïm, on 13 January 2021, in Opquast.
This post is intended for English-speaking readers just discovering Opquast and its contents, especially its web quality assurance checklist
New version of the Opquast website
By Élie Sloïm, on 5 January 2021, in Opquast.
After almost a year’s work, we are pleased to welcome you to the new version of the Opquast.com website. This new version brings together the contents of the Opquast.com site, the checklist site and the partner directory. This is an absolutely huge project on the scale of the Opquast company, all the more so as we are also publishing part of the contents in English.
Opquast certification in English: here we go!
By Élie Sloïm, on 24 November 2020, in Certification.
For the past year, Paul Houston, and a good portion of the team, have been working hard to create the English version of the Opquast training. At first glance, it looks like a simple translation, but in fact, it’s an […]
Accessibility: understanding each other
By Élie Sloïm, on 15 October 2018, in Accessibility.
After a few hundred workshops dedicated to web quality, a simple observation: even the most basic terms, which designate entire areas of our activity, are misunderstood. Take the term “accessibility”. Because we have our heads in the sand, we tend […]