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Elements and Performance Criteria

Required Skills

Required skills

communication skills to liaise with advocacy groups business and government

literacy skills to

document test results

interpret standards

problemsolving skills to accommodate user groups with special needs

research skills to

develop an accessibility checklist for application to websiterelated 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 WC standards

Evidence Required

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

requirements documentation

customerrelationship model

automaticaccessibility 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 candidates accessibility checklist based on standards and requirements

review of candidates design of valid accessibility tests

verbal or written questioning to assess candidates 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 nonEnglish speaking background may need additional support

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

Range Statement

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.