Tag Archives: User-Centred Design

Web guide – June project update

We’ve been fairly busy in the past month.  You’ve seen some of the work we’ve been discussing on the blog regarding information architecture, metadata and content, as well as our current thinking on blogging itself.
But behind the scenes, we’ve been working on yet other areas.

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Crowd-sourced labels, names and IA via external folksonomies

We wanted to investigate the possibilities of attaching tags or folksonomies to our content. Our original Content Management System (CMS) didn’t have the ability to support internal tagging, so we decided to investigate options for externally-sourced tags. During some of our early tinkering, we explored what would be required to support a variety of ways [...]

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Call for usability test participants

We’re now at a stage in the redevelopment of the Web Guide where a rough, prototype-quality, first cut of the new site is ready to be put before users. We’ll be putting the site structure, information architecture and usability of the prototype through its paces, and we’re hoping you could help us out (and help out [...]

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Expired: PDF Accessibility Consultation Review

The content below was posted to the Web Publishing Guide between 16 September 2009 and 26 October 2009.  This consultation is now closed.  It is provided here as a reference only.

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An update on the PDF Accessibilty Review

In early September, AGIMO launched a project to review the accessibility support of the Portable Document Format (PDF), for use on government websites. The project is being run in collaboration with the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) and the Department of Families and Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs (FaHCSIA).
The initial stage, the Public Consultation, [...]

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Focus Group Research Report – Drilling Down

Update: We’ve discovered some accessibility issues with the in-blog version of this document. To view it in this format, it’s available at http://www.slideshare.net/webpublishing/agimo-web-publishing-guide-review-research-report, other formats are below

Download Full Report (RTF, 59kb)
Download Full Report (PDF, 440kb)

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Did We Hear You Correctly?

A couple of months ago we ran some focus groups on what people think about the Web Publishing Guide – what they like and don’t like about the Guide, and what we could do to the Guide to make their jobs easier. The results are sitting in our inbox now.
Many of you will already have [...]

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