Responsible Development
Ensuring the long-term health of our websites is essential. To do so, we develop our code with best practices and guarantee that it can be easily maintained and iterated on. As a Collective, we must be dedicated to continuous learning and creating to the best of our ability.
The Internet is ever-changing. As such, we need to constantly ensure that our process is as up to date as possible. A thorough peer review of our work, proactive problem-solving, version control best practices, and proper documentation are integral to ensuring that we can learn from current standards and our own mistakes, and continue to improve going forward.
Collaboration requires us to be involved members of the wider community.
It is crucial to work with a testing guide and QA grid throughout development of the project. We want to ensure that our standard browsing testing covers: Microsoft Edge; the most recent versions of Firefox and Google Chrome; Safari 12 and above for Mac; Safari and Google Chrome for iOS 12 and above; Google Chrome and Firefox for Android 10.0 and above.
Our sites should be tested against benchmarks at web.dev across all four categories: Performance, Accessibility, Best Practices & SEO.
of the global market share for internet browsers was accounted for by Google Chrome
of the global market share for internet browsers was accounted for by Apple’s Safari browser
Good design requires constant collaboration with project managers, developers, and our clients. Furthermore, collaboration requires us to be involved members of the wider community. This means contributing to the open source community wherever possible and allowing time for research and experimentation along the way.
The commitment of the Ethical Web Collective does not begin and end within our own organizations. Through ongoing collaboration, training sessions, and proper documentation, we can safeguard the sustainability of the site post-launch. We want our clients’ institutional knowledge to be easily communicated and transferred for years to come.
