Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Required skills
communication skills to liaise with advocacy groups, business and government
literacy skills to:
document test results
interpret standards
problem-solving skills to accommodate user groups with special needs
research skills to:
develop an accessibility checklist for application to website-related work
identify user groups with special needs
technical skills to:
analyse a website
analyse the evaluation
design and implement technical tests, including accessibility tests
develop a website
evaluate tests and give feedback on the evaluation.
Required knowledge
access and equity legislation and principles
Australian Computer Society Code of Ethics
business process design
applicability of copyright and intellectual property to website development
customer and business liaison
electronic commerce modelling language
government, advocacy group and special needs group liaison
application of privacy principles to website development, user access and user usage
technical performance measurement
web accessibility initiative (WAI)
website accessibility, security and equity legislation
website design methods and standard website structures
website security
workload metrics
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards.
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.
User groups may include: | auditory impairment cognitive impairment mobility impairment visual impairment. |
Requirements may refer to: | business network people in the organisation system. |
Standards may include: | International Organization for Standardization (ISO), International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Australian Standards (AS) organisational project. |
Web development standards may include: | Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) best practice vendor-specific accessibility standards User Agent Accessibility Guidelines (UAAG) WAI Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). |
Testing tools may include: | Bobby General Magic's Web-On-Call Lynx Opera PwWebSpeak. |
Software may include: | commercial software applications in-house or customised software organisation-specific software packaged software. |
Non-text element may include: | American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) art animations, such as animated graphic interchange formats (GIFs) applets and programmatic objects audio tracks of video, and video frames graphical buttons image map regions images used as list bullets images, graphical representations of text (including symbols) scripts sounds (played with or without user interaction) spacers stand-alone audio files. |
Browser may include: | Galleon Google Chrome Internet Explorer Konqueror Lynx Mozilla Firefox Netscape Navigator Opera Phoenix. |
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.
Observation Checklist