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ICAWEB402A
Confirm accessibility of websites for people with special needs

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024


This unit applies to frontline technical support personnel responsible for designing, building and testing websites.

Accessibility means that a website can be navigated and read by everyone, regardless of location, experience, or the type of computer technology used.

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to ensure that a website is accessible to users with special needs, including people with auditory, visual, mobility, and cognitive impairments and those people who use assistive technology.

You may want to include more information here about the target group and the purpose of the assessments (eg formative, summative, recognition)

Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Employability Skills

This unit contains employability skills.



Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

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 ability to:

test a website for accessibility

demonstrate theoretical knowledge of website content creation

communicate and negotiate with user groups, government and industry

undertake website design.

Context of and specific resources for assessment

Assessment must ensure access to:

live website

requirements documentation

customer-relationship model

automatic-accessibility measuring tools

organisational requirements and relevant standards

appropriate learning and assessment support when required.

Where applicable, physical resources should include equipment modified for people with special needs.

Method of assessment

A range of assessment methods should be used to assess practical skills and knowledge. The following examples are appropriate for this unit:

direct observation of candidate designing and testing accessibility tools

review of candidate’s accessibility checklist based on standards and requirements

review of candidate’s design of valid accessibility tests

verbal or written questioning to assess candidate’s knowledge of accessibility requirements and how to provide them.

Guidance information for assessment

Holistic assessment with other units relevant to the industry sector, workplace and job role is recommended, where appropriate.

Assessment processes and techniques must be culturally appropriate, and suitable to the communication skill level, language, literacy and numeracy capacity of the candidate and the work being performed.

Indigenous people and other people from a non-English speaking background may need additional support.

In cases where practical assessment is used it should be combined with targeted questioning to assess required knowledge.

Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assingnment, checklist) and due date here

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Assessment Tasks

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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

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 make document changes based on results 
Ensure that the text equivalent for every non-text element is present in the website where feasible 
Verify that information conveyed with colour is also available without colour 
Identify changes in the natural language of a document text 
Check and ensure that document can be read without style sheets 
Check and ensure that 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 on text-to-speech browser 
Ensure that accessibility of website is signed off by appropriate person as meeting web-development standards 

Forms

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