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ICAT4183B
Confirm accessibility of website for people with special needs

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Version 1.0
Issue Date: March 2024


This unit defines the competency required to ensure that a website is accessible to users with special needs including people with disabilities.

The following units are linked and form an appropriate cluster:

ICAA4142C Design a website to meet technical requirements

ICAB4135B Create a simple mark up language document to specification

ICAB4171B Develop cascading style sheets

ICAD4209B Write content for web pages

ICAI4189B Ensure website content meets technical protocols and standards

ICAT4184B Ensure site usability for full range of users

ICAT4185B Create a website testing procedure

ICAT4186B Conduct operational acceptance tests of websites

No licensing, legislative, regulatory or certification requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

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Employability Skills

This unit contains employability skills.




Evidence Required

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The evidence guide provides advice on assessment and must be read in conjunction with the performance criteria, required skills and knowledge, range statement and the Assessment Guidelines for the Training Package.

Overview of assessment

Critical aspects for assessment and evidence required to demonstrate competency in this unit

Evidence of the following is essential:

Accessible web pages take into account the special needs of visitors with auditory, visual, mobility, and cognitive impairments and those people who use assistive technology. The objective is to provide those users an equivalent browsing experience to that of visitors without special needs.

Assessment must confirm the ability to identify accessibility requirements with reference to the client profile, to design or implement a valid accessibility test, to facilitate the test process and document results. The proposed solution must meet legal, special customer and business needs and expectations as well as the current and future needs of the business. Design elements that are considered undesirable in the website should be highlighted for redesign for better accessibility.

To demonstrate competency in this unit the person will require access to:

Live website

Requirements documentation

Customer relationship model

Automatic accessibility measuring tools

Context of and specific resources for assessment

The expansion in availability and use of the internet provides challenges for developers and website custodians in respect of access for people with special needs. Accessibility refers to ensuring that content is accessible (i.e. It can be navigated and read by everyone, regardless of location, experience, or the type of computer technology used). Accessibility is most commonly discussed in relation to people with disabilities, because this group are most likely to be disadvantaged if the principles of accessible web design are not implemented. Failure to follow these principles can make it difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to access content. Creating accessible content should be an integral part of the web design philosophy, and accessibility features should be incorporated into all aspects of the design process. Designing for accessibility is thus as much a strategic issue as a purely technical one.

The focus of this competency is testing for accessibility. Such testing should be incorporated into any and all user testing regimes, and not be seen as an isolated event that can occur after other user testing has taken place.

Depending on complexity of content, basic knowledge and skills would prepare a person to perform in a range of activities where there is a clearly defined range of contexts for the website.

The breadth, depth and complexity of knowledge and skills in this competency would cover a broad range of varied activities or application in a wider variety of contexts most of which are complex and non-routine. Leadership and guidance would be involved when organising activities of self and others as well as contributing to technical solutions of a non-routine or contingency nature.

Assessment must ensure:

Performance of a broad range of skilled applications including the requirement to evaluate and analyse current practices, develop new criteria and procedures for performing current practices and provision of some leadership and guidance to others in the application and planning of the skills would be characteristic.

Applications may involve responsibility for, and limited organisation of, others.

Method of assessment

The purpose of this unit is to define the standard of performance to be achieved in the workplace. In undertaking training and assessment activities related to this unit, consideration should be given to the implementation of appropriate diversity and accessibility practices in order to accommodate people who may have special needs. Additional guidance on these and related matters is provided in ICA05 Section 1.

Competency in this unit should be assessed using summative assessment to ensure consistency of performance in a range of contexts. This unit can be assessed either in the workplace or in a simulated environment. However, simulated activities must closely reflect the workplace to enable full demonstration of competency.

Assessment will usually include observation of real or simulated work processes and procedures and/or performance in a project context as well as questioning on underpinning knowledge and skills. The questioning of team members, supervisors, subordinates, peers and clients where appropriate may provide valuable input to the assessment process. The interdependence of units for assessment purposes may vary with the particular project or scenario.

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, for example:

ICAA4142C Design a website to meet technical requirements

ICAB4135B Create a simple mark-up language document to specification

ICAB4171B Develop cascading style sheets

ICAD4209B Write content for web pages

ICAI4189B Ensure website content meets technical protocols and standards

ICAT4184B Ensure site usability for full range of users

ICAT4185B Create a website testing procedure

ICAT4186B Conduct operational acceptance tests of websites

An individual demonstrating this competency would be able to:

Demonstrate understanding of a broad knowledge base incorporating some theoretical concepts

Apply solutions to a defined range of unpredictable problems

Identify and apply skill and knowledge areas to a wide variety of contexts, with depth in some areas

Identify, analyse and evaluate information from a variety of sources

Take responsibility for own outputs in relation to specified quality standards

Take limited responsibility for the quantity and quality of the output of others

An individual demonstrating this competency would be able to:

Test a website for accessibility

Demonstrate some theoretical knowledge of website content creation

Apply a range of well-developed skills in communication and negotiation

Perform a range of skills in website design where some discretion and judgement is required

Interpret available information using discretion and judgement

Maintain knowledge of industry products and services


Submission Requirements

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Assessment Tasks

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Required skills

Developing a website

Analysing a website

Designing technical tests

Implementing tests

Evaluating tests

Giving feedback on the evaluation

Analysing the evaluation

Identifying and accommodating user groups with special needs

Required knowledge

Website architecture

Website security

Work load metrics

Technical performance measurement

Business process design

Customer and business liaison

Government, advocacy group and special needs group liaison

Website accessibility, security and equity legislation

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)

Copyright and intellectual property

Relevant privacy legislation and principles

Electronic commerce modelling language

Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics

Access and equity legislation and principles

The range statement relates to the unit of competency as a whole. It allows for different work environments and situations that may affect performance. Bold italicised wording, if used in the performance criteria, is detailed below. Essential operating conditions that may be present with training and assessment (depending on the work situation, needs of the candidate, accessibility of the item, and local industry and regional contexts) may also be included.

Web development standards may include:

Web content accessibility guidelines 1.0 (WCAG)

Authoring tool accessibility guidelines 1.0 (ATAG)

User agent accessibility guidelines 1.0 (UAAG)

Web accessibility initiative (WAI)

Best practice vendor-specific accessibility standards

User groups may include but is not limited to:

person with auditory

visual

mobility

cognitive impairments

Software may include but is not limited to:

commercial software applications

organisation-specific software

packaged software

in-house or customised software

Browser may include but is not limited to:

Netscape Navigator

Internet Explorer

Mozilla

Opera

Galleon

Phoenix

Konqueror

Lynx

Standards may include:

ISO/IEC/AS standards

organisational standards

project standards (for further information refer to the Standards Australia website at: www.standards.com.au)

Requirements may be in reference to:

business

system

network

people in the organisation

Testing tools may include but is not limited to:

Bobby

Opera

PwWebSpeak

Lynx

General Magic's Web-On-Call

Non-text element may include:

Images, graphical representations of text (including symbols)

Image map regions

Animations (e.g. animated GIFs)

Applets and programmatic objects

ASCII art

Frames

Scripts

Images used as list bullets

Spacers

Graphical buttons

Sounds (played with or without user interaction)

Standalone audio files

Audio tracks of video, and video

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Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Research and identify specific user groups with particular accessibility requirements 
Identify general legislated and industry accessibility standards and requirements to understand the wider context of accessibility 
Identify web development standards and prioritise application 
Consolidate specific and general standards and requirements into an accessibility checklist for application to website related work 
Select and prepare appropriate automatic testing tools and software 
Run automatic testing tools and based on results, make and document changes 
Ensure that the text equivalent for every non-textelement is present in the website where feasible 
Verify that all information conveyed with colour is also available without colour 
Identify all changes in the natural language of a document text 
Check and ensure that document can be read without style sheets 
Check and ensure that all priorities identified in the analysis of web development standards are met and completed 
Test site with different user groups to ensure that the site transforms successfully and maintains accessibility 
Check and ensure that pages are not dependent on colour and can operate in a monochrome environment 
Check and ensure that pages are logical and accessible in a text-only environment 
Verify that pages operate correctly on text-to-speech browser 
Have the accessibility of the website signed off by an appropriate person as meeting web development standards 

Forms

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