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.