Web Guidelines Checklist

Situation

A government agency has published a major standard for web sites which other agencies are expected to comply with by a set date.

Issues

• Web Guidelines standard becoming mandatory without self-audit checklist.
• Government agencies unable to assess conformance to standard.

Involvement

• Write and edit checklist items to support working group.
• Develop front matter and back matter for checklist document.
• Prepare checklists for publication in HTML and PDF formats.

Solutions

• Use independent audit spreadsheet as template for new checklist.
• Write and edit checklist items to standard wording based on imperatives in standard.
• Correlate and cross-reference check items against standards imperative.

Result

Checklist published on internet web site six weeks before web guidelines become mandatory.