Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish standards
- Identify appropriate regulatory, accessibility, industry and organisational compliance standards
- Develop, quantify, document and disseminate measurable performance standards, from those standards, for all documents
- Establish a centralised, distributed or combined quality assurance methodology
- Determine the specification from which the website was developed
- Establish guidelines for controlling, updating and loading new content onto the website
- Apply standards and track performance
- Apply all processes as an integral part of the website development process
- Validate site, updates and new content against performance standards, using a wide variety of browsers and tools
- Document and disseminate results
- Provide feedback to web authors, users and administrators on a routine and regular basis
- Develop and apply continuous improvement process
- Provide performance standards feedback to developers, maintainers and administrators
- Identify below-average or unacceptable performance standards and apply appropriate measures in order to improve performance
- Provide channels for interaction, feedback and suggestions from site users, administrators, developers and maintainers
- Conduct responses to interaction, feedback and suggestion providers
- Develop procedures to identify whether feedback and suggestions are applied and acted upon
- Conduct regular benchmark reviews based on improved performance and disseminate revised benchmarks
- Document quality assurance practices