Part 5Appendixes

These appendixes bring together all of the quality characteristics for you to use in several ways. The checklist in Appendix A incorporates all of the guidelines from the chapters on the quality characteristics so that you can give a quality rating to technical information. The table in Appendix B shows which characteristics are appropriate for technical reviewers, users, testers, technical editors, visual designers, and peer editors to check. The material in Appendix C can help you understand how the quality characteristics apply to the various elements of information, from small to large and from syntactic to semantic.

Appendix A. Quality checklist

Appendix B. Who checks which quality characteristics?

Appendix C. Quality ...

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