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AGIMO Web Publishing Guide Review - Research Report
1. Contents
Research context 2
Information needs of web developers 5
Web-Publishing Guide feedback 11
Suggestions for improvement 18
Appendix A: Participating Australian Government organisations 27
Research Context
Research Objectives
n TNS Social Research was commissioned by the Australian
Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) to inform
further development of the online Web-Publishing Guide
produced by the Department of Finance and Deregulation.
n The Guide is intended to provide assistance on website design,
marketing, policy and legal issues for web-developers in
government agencies. The aim of the project was to explore the
information needs of government agencies looking to develop
websites.
n Specifically the study sought to investigate:
n drivers and barriers to accessing the Web-Publishing Guide
n key content requirements
n perceptions of the existing guide, including perceived benefits
and shortcomings in terms of content and usability
n response to potential additional features such as templates and
examples, and
n suggested improvements.
Research Method
n The research was conducted with Australian Government and
non-Australian Government staff, with group discussions
moderated by a researcher at TNS offices in Canberra.
n In total, one mini-group and two group discussions were
conducted with web publishing staff from a range of Australian
Government agencies. A further mini-group was conducted with
2. non-Australian Government agency stakeholders (ACT
Government staff, a consultant/academic, and a policy advisor
for an Australian Labor Party senator).
n In recruiting participants, TNS contacted people who had
registered their interest in response to an email sent by AGIMO
to members of a web publishing mailing list. Given the positive
response to the email, and in order to maximise the breadth of
agencies included in the research, attending agencies were
asked to nominate up to two representatives. A list of
participating Australian Government agencies is included in the
Appendices.
n Discussions commenced with a review of the information needs
of the web-developers, including specific areas that they see as
pertinent, and the level of information they would like to see in a
guide of this nature. Unaided perceptions of the website, and the
drivers and barriers to accessing site were then explored before
presenting the website to participants and briefly assessing the
perceived usability and functionality of the website. Finally,
participants were asked to make suggestions for enhancing the
usefulness and usability of the website.
Information needs of web-
developers
Information needs of web-developers
Overview
n Federal government participants in the study represented a
range of roles in the online presence of agencies, primarily web
publishing and content managers, as well as web masters.
n Key issues impacting on participants in their roles were focused
on:
n Balancing the demands and requirements of senior internal
staff, with web publishing standards and guidelines
n Balancing the needs of key stakeholders – internal clients,
3. target audiences, and technical/ IT staff
n Struggling to be ‘compliant’– putting web publishing standards
and guidelines into practice to ensure online accessibility, and
n Knowing where to go for help.
n Each of these issues is discussed in the following slides.
Information needs of web-developers
Support for the role of AGIMO
n Overall AGIMO is seen as an authority for government online
issues, making it an important resource when web publishing
staff are lobbying for change or certain practices within their
agencies.
I think a lot of managers are quite willing to listen to it. My experience is that if
AGIMO says it’s okay, then it’s okay.
(Group 4, Federal government)
AGIMO solved my branding problems. I could say ‘AGIMO think it’s good’, and they
said ‘okay then’.
(Group 4, Federal government)
n However, a small number of participants considered awareness
of AGIMO and the Web Publishing Guide to be low amongst
senior government and other non-web publishing staff,
highlighting the need for further awareness raising of AGIMO’s
role.
Information needs of web-developers
Key issues
n Balancing the demands and requirements of senior internal
staff, with web publishing standards and guidelines was
frequently raised by participants. This is a challenging issue
4. impacting on web publishers’ roles, and some expressed
frustration at the situation.
A lot of the time you get thrown content – ‘this needs to go up on the web’ – and
there is no plan at all related to who the target audience is or why is it going on the
website. There’s no real reason except that someone up there said it needs to go
on the website. (Group 3, Federal government)
n Several agencies had developed protocols to manage these
issues, however this appeared to be the exception rather than
the norm.
Just recently we’ve finalised a quality assurance and compliance document for our
websites to help our business areas understand what our role is and how we can
help them. It’s not just ‘we’ll design your website’ but we’ll help you determine the
content, write it properly and provide usability and accessibility advice. (Group 2,
Federal government)
Everyone [in our Department] who contributes, maintains, writes, publishes needs
to go on an internal course called Writing for the Web which uses the AGIMO
publishing guide as a foundation. (Group 3, Federal government)
Information needs of web-developers
Key issues
n Another issue impacting on web publishers’ roles appeared to be
the pressure of balancing the needs of stakeholders, including
internal clients, target audiences, and technical/ IT staff. A key
aspect to this is ensuring that information meets the needs of end
users/ audiences.
If you’re a web developer you’re looking at three sets of stakeholders, especially in
government. The first is the client and that’s where you run against problems, the
second equally important is the audience – you should always know your
audience, the third set of stakeholders are people sort of like me – the guardians of
the web standards for your organisation. (Group 1, non-Federal government)
n Many participants expressed a concern about their ability to
ensure a compliant online presence for their agency, given
current accessibility requirements. Across all groups there was
an emphasis on this issue and in some cases participants
expressed fear of ‘getting it wrong’ according to the guidelines.
This issue appears to require stronger assistance and support
5. from AGIMO, in the form of standards or benchmarks to be set.
We want our sites to be accessible but we want to keep up with the latest trends and
that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s going to be accessible... I find it quite
complicated, how many steps do you take... Do you meet the minimum standards
or move beyond that? Having some kind of benchmark for all of government to
work towards – you know what you’re creating your product for... if there was a
combined effort that would be great. (Group 2, Federal government)
Information needs of web-developers
Key issues
n Throughout the recruitment process and across all groups, there
was an enthusiasm evident amongst participants at being given
the opportunity to connect with other government peers. Most
participants expressed a desire to collaborate and promote the
sharing of knowledge and resources across agencies rather
than acting as ‘silos of information’.
If there was a forum, I think, linked with this where everyone was raising issues or
came across a problem then created topics and then AGIMO looked at that and
thought there’s an issue that everyone’s dealing with, what can we do to solve that.
(Group 3, Federal government)
n A number of resources beyond the Web Publishing Guide were
used by participants, primarily for technical and other related
information. Taking this idea further, participants were keen to
see AGIMO act as more of a conduit to facilitate a cross-agency
‘virtual team’ which would maximise the breadth and depth of
skills across agencies. This was also suggested as a solution to
more ‘technical’ issues which are sometimes perceived to not be
adequately addressed by AGIMO.
I guess one thing that AGIMO could think about doing is perhaps, because
they are across everybody, to start picking up those people with those skills…
mentoring might be one way, but also creating almost like a virtual help desk or a
6. virtual team. So that if I’ve got problems with PDF and nobody in my organisation
can help me, I can place a call to AGIMO and they say actually we know of
somebody who’s a bit of a ninja at that, they’re from Immigration or ABS, what
we’ll do is we’ll organise for them to come out, is next Tuesday good and you can
workshop it and we’ve also heard that someone from DEEWR needs a bit of help.
(Group 3, Federal government)
Web-Publishing Guide
Feedback
Feedback
Overall findings
n In general, feedback on the Web Publishing Guide was centred
on the desire for AGIMO to make a greater emphasis on setting
rules rather than stating guidelines, and providing practical, ‘best
practice’ examples of how these might be achieved or adhered
to.
n Several participants suggested that AGIMO should be more
authoritative in their approach, which in turn would aid web-
publishing staff in their roles in balancing the needs of senior
internal clients, etc.
n Across all groups participants expressed a view that the Web
Publishing Guide provides a useful starting point for
information, but lacks sufficient ‘how-to’ or guidance required by
users when determining how to go about something. As such, it
was often the case that participants had not visited the Guide for
long periods of time.
n Amongst some users there was a view that the Guide is difficult
to locate online and that AGIMO needs to provide an easier
searching mechanism to assist users to find the resource.
n Layout and navigation of the Guide are felt to be acceptable, with
more concern being raised by the issue that it appears to be a
‘static’ resource with little sense of currency. This was
7. perceived to be evidenced by a lack of changes in the Guide
witnessed by participants over time.
n There was strong support for AGIMO to use the Guide as a
forum to harness the knowledge and experience of users by
engagement through a feedback mechanism (suggestions,
solutions, etc).
Feedback
Usage of the Web Publishing Guide
n Usage of the Guide appeared to be strongly linked to the web-
publishing experience of individual staff. For those newer to their
roles, it is seen as useful. Across most participants the Guide
was most commonly used as a starting point or for gap
analysis (i.e. how does our site compare to the guidelines?), but
users often require more definitive ‘how to’ guidance.
I (used it) when I was putting together our guide. Especially with new
technologies out there there’s a lot of people who are keen to use it and because
we have no central area I point people to the Guide instead. At least if we’ve got
something hopefully they won’t get into too much trouble. (Group 2, Federal
government)
Authority of the Web Publishing Guide
n Overall, participants were unanimous in their feedback that they
would prefer AGIMO to provide a more authoritative role in
setting online requirements, rather than providing guidance. This
is linked to the fact that the role of AGIMO is considered to be to
‘set clear standards’, and without this clarity, the roles of
government web-publishers is often challenged.
If we had it as an overall rule and not a guide, it would make life so much easier.
(Group 3, Federal government)
If you make them standards, not guidelines, people will listen to you. Put it up
there on your intranet and make sure that every public service government
department has it on their internet or intranet. (Group 3, Federal government)
8. Feedback
Practical examples required
n Overwhelmingly, participants were emphatic in their feedback
regarding the need for clear, practical examples within the Guide.
Suggestions included scenarios, a pattern library, and checklists.
I would like to see AGIMO put it into a scenario – it could be all hypothetical – just
to see how they work things out or what they’re talking about so you can look at it
and go ‘ah, this is what you mean’. (Group 2, Federal government)
They need a pattern catalogue or a pattern library – a guide that shows you how
you do something on your website. A lot of organisations have pattern libraries so
that new developers don’t have to go through a lot of information when they do
something new. They just pull a pattern down, and they can see it in action. (Group
4, Federal government)
Feedback mechanism
n In addition to seeking an opportunity for a discussion forum or
network to increase cross-agency collaboration, some
participants were also keen to see the Guide broadened to
include a feedback mechanism to harness the views and
experiences of users, in the form of suggestions, solutions, etc.
I think it’s push and pull as well. It’s great that AGIMO can push out some
information and maybe they can do that better, but in doing that pushing they need
to sort of open up the shop a little bit so that people who are having informal
discussions or communities of practice can actually say ‘we’ve come up with this
solution to a potential problem with PDFs, please consider it, let us know if you like
it and we can have it ‘– let’s do a dialogue instead of reading guidelines and going,
well that doesn’t tell me anything, I have no answer. (Group 3, Federal government)
Feedback
9. Content issues
n Amongst most participants the Guide was viewed as a static
resource, with infrequent changes. However there was a clear
sense that users would prefer a dynamic resource providing an
opportunity to contribute views or opinions, or examples where
possible.
It’s not surprising [that the Guide doesn’t change very often], but it’s
disappointing. Especially with all the accessibility stuff that’s been happening
lately and the push towards that and there’s no new contact… (Group 3, Federal
government)
n With regard to alerts about changes to content, a choice between
RSS feed and emails were the most preferred options suggested
by participants.
An alert would be very useful... the more important the change is the more useful it
would be.
(Group 1, non-federal government)
n Overall, for some participants the classification/ordering of
content under certain headings in the Guide was seen as
confusing, and some found this concerning. This was particularly
the case for some information contained under ‘Technical’.
The thing that doesn’t fill me with much confidence is some of the headings used
and some of the classification, like putting information architecture, navigation and
search under ‘technical development’ drives me crazy!
(Group 3, Federal government)
Feedback
Layout and other design issues
n In addition to seeking an opportunity for a discussion forum or
network to increase cross-agency collaboration, some
participants were also keen to see the Guide broadened to
include a feedback mechanism to harness the views and
experiences of users, in the form of suggestions, solutions, etc.
I think it’s push and pull as well. It’s great that AGIMO can push out some
10. information and maybe they can do that better, but in doing that pushing they need
to sort of open up the shop a little bit so that people who are having informal
discussions or communities of practice can actually say ‘we’ve come up with this
solution to a potential problem with PDFs, please consider it, let us know if you like
it and we can have it ‘– let’s do a dialogue instead of reading guidelines and going,
well that doesn’t tell me anything, I have no answer. (Group 3, Federal government)
n Minor issues were raised with the title/heading of the Guide, with
some participants indicating that this is missing a title, and others
suggesting the title is misleading.
What I was going to say was the actual heading itself, the web publishing guide, I
think it’s really misleading because web publishing to most people is the actual
publishing of the content. There’s a hell of a lot more in here than content. It’s
more a web management or web – it’s not even development. It’s more than
development. I think it’s really, really misleading. (Group 3, Federal government)
Feedback
Navigation
n Several participants suggested that the Guide would benefit from
user-centric navigation tailored to different audiences, e.g.
management, design and technical users
This guide is aiming at a whole bunch of people and one way you could address that is
to say ok from a management point of view these are the important chunks, if
you’re designing, these are the things that you should be looking at more seriously
and if you’re the bunch of people who might be writing these pages then these are
the sorts of things you should be across. So it would be a user-based way of
structuring the guide. (Group 1, non-Federal government)
Semantic web development – user-tagging, micro
formats
n Varied feedback was received about preferences regarding
information on semantic web development, but generally this was
11. only seen as important by a few.
Suggestions for
improvement
Suggestions for improvement
n Finally, participants were tasked with providing suggestions for
enhancing the usefulness and usability of the Web Publishing
Guide. These have been grouped and classified into key areas,
and provide a checklist for AGIMO to understand the issues of
most currency for users of the Guide.
n These mirror key findings emerging from the discussions, and
the main suggestions include a need for:
n stronger standards and guidelines, providing a source of
authority for users
n practical examples to provide a sense of best-practice
n a discussion forum for collaboration among government web-
publishers
n a Guide which has currency by providing a feedback
mechanism for users
n the provision of further information and clear direction on
accessibility issues.
Suggestions for improvement
Federal government feedback
n Stronger guidelines desired most:
n Provide a clearer framework to be used across all agencies.
Make the Guide a set of standards and/or rules. Give it
authority
n Make the Guide more specific and make the framework
12. standards rather than just guidelines – detail exactly how
departments should be publishing content
n Provide a strong statement encouraging departments to
conform to AGIMO standardised practices/processes
n Make the minimum requirements obvious, e.g. ‘must’ versus
‘should’
n Provide firm standards for areas of legal issues – publication,
archiving and preservation
n Support the Guide with compliance requirements, procedural
tips and also have the CIO forum support the guidelines
n Obtain executive endorsement from all departments – web
publishing is normally low on the agenda but it is also the main
form of information dissemination/education!
n Provide answers rather than suggestions.
Suggestions for improvement
Federal government feedback cont…
n Practical examples:
n Provide examples of how things are best implemented
n Share current examples of what departments are doing e.g.
CMS purchases, designs, testing processes and results, etc.
n Provide links to ‘mock up’ examples of how it must/should be
done
n Consider providing more whole of government resources e.g.
templates, CMS
n Provide a standard ‘legal disclaimer’
n Use Wiki to encourage expert consultation and
practices/examples
n Better Practice checklists – update these and make them ‘law’
n Provide a tool to test that your site complies –
checklist/questionnaire
n Include real-life examples and case studies including State Gov
sites (with their permission) as these sites are often perceived
to be slightly ahead of the Australian Government sites
n Publish in PDF as well, so content can be printed off and read.
PDF and HTML pages would need to be dated with the
publication/review date
13. n Concentrate on issues specific to the Australian Government.
General information can be found elsewhere.
Suggestions for improvement
Federal government feedback cont…
n Forums, collaboration, feedback:
n Develop a community practice on the subject of web publishing
n Provide a collaborative space
n Provide something that gives users a way to find out and share
with others what issues they are facing and how they are
responding to new technology
n Provide a space for staff to share knowledge so that each
department isn’t doing their own thing – a way for various web
teams to get together to raise/discuss issues, standards, etc
n A site where users can enter their questions
n Make the Guide a ‘Push and Pull’ facility – contribute to as well
as reading from
n Form a user testing pool – volunteers between departments to
help with usability and accessibility testing
n Currency:
n Make the Guide timely and accurate, not just focussing on
emerging technologies
n Keep the information up to date, current, and include links to
other information that would be useful
n Provide a list of new or updated information, e.g. from the last
three months
Suggestions for improvement
Federal government feedback cont…
n Detailed accessibility information:
n More information is required on accessibility – e.g. WCAG 1.0
and WCAG 2.0
n Provide stronger rulings on accessibility requirements or
examples of different ways to implement them, e.g. PDF-HTML
requirements
n Specific guidance on publishing submissions, and making
14. PDFs accessible
n Further information on:
n Standardised media accessibility
n Process of online government consultations and most suitable
tools
n Electronic Transaction Act – better understanding is needed
n Web management.
Suggestions for improvement
Federal government feedback cont…
n Contacting AGIMO:
n Provide clearer information in the Guide on the best way to
contact AGIMO for advice – currently difficult to locate these
details
n Accessing the Guide:
n Not currently able to quickly and easily find the Guide online –
make it easier to find and identify
n Provide easy access from AGIMO homepage
n Notification of changes to the Guide:
n RSS feeds/email alerts preferred
n Look/feel of the Guide:
n Improve to add more colour and more engaging design
n Provide a nice clean layout which is easy to understand.
Suggestions for improvement
Non-Federal government feedback
n User-centric navigation and layout:
n Identify different audiences and present relevant and role-
based information, e.g. for managers, content authors, web
designers
n Provide dynamic, user-orientated information i.e. user selects
who they are and what they want to see
15. n Move user-centric items to top of page. Put technical second
and legal/policy last. Remove copyright restriction
n Forums, collaboration:
n Provide stronger emphasis on events, training guides, and
collaboration with peers for more efficient and effective projects
n Updates should include real time online collaboration, generic
enough to apply regardless of tool
n Should include how to deal constructively with conflict (e.g.
http://pipka.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/US-Air-Force-
Web-Response-Assessment.jpg)
n Specifics:
n Put a title tag on homepage, fix the logos
n De-emphasise ‘Policy’ section, i.e. drop it out of the top spot
n Get rid of ‘what’s new’ unless there’s something new that’s
really important
n Email, RSS most preferred methods to communicate changes
to the Guide, policies, etc.
Appendices
Appendix A
List of participating Australian Government
organisations