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Web maintenance quality assurance procedure

You should have a regular maintenance schedule for every page on your website. Use this procedure whenever you update an existing web page on your site.

  • Two reviewers should check each page
  • Reviewers must be familiar with requirements of the Monash Web Style Guide and with the tools used in the review process
  • First reviewer may be the designer. Second reviewer should be a peer or superior

Overview of the procedure

  1. Markup validation
  2. Link integrity check
  3. Review content changes
  4. Review accessibility

Detail of the procedure

  Step 1: Markup validation

  • Use the W3C HTML validator to check your markup. You can install this is a bookmarklet/favelet to make validation a smoother process
  • Correct any errors identified by the validator. The best approach is to correct the first error and revalidate and then repeat this process until the page validates
  • If you have amended your faculty or sub-brand style sheet, use the W3C CSS validator to check the stylesheet syntax
  • Correct any errors

Resources

Step 2: Link integrity check

  • Use the W3C link checker to test the integrity of your links
  • Correct any errors

Resources

Step 3: Review content changes

  • Check spelling/grammar
  • Review metadata (page title, keywords, description)

Resources

Relevant sections from the Monash Web Style Guide:

Step 4: Review accessibility

  • Using online tools (or by manual inspection if you are suitably familiar with both markup and accessibility) check for any accessibility problems, in particular:
    • Ensure structural markup is used (properly nested headings, table headers for data tables, properly marked up lists)
    • Check that all images have appropriate text alternatives
    • Check the read order of the page to make sure that it makes sense
    • Check that all form labels are explicity associated with their controls
  • Ensure all accessibility features of templates are in place (skip link, accesskeys, link to change text size)
  • Correct as required

Resources

Online tools:

Relevant sections from the Monash Web Style Guide: