Challenge
A need for improved branding and usability of the Outbreak website was identified by the Minister’s Office and the Biosecurity Incident National Communication Network. It was required to continue outbreak.gov.au as a departmental satellite site and improve the content, visual design, and user pathways into the site.
The Outbreak website is entity to support the Australian Government – working in partnership with other governments, industry and the community – to prevent exotic
pests and diseases from arriving in Australia, and helping to control outbreaks when they occur.
The core requirement was new visual design that is responsive and WCAG 2.0 compliant, also new information architecture was required. The website was required to be delivered in short time frame and launch date of this site is to be determined by the departments External Communications team aligned with Ministers announcement.
Approach
Amicia Consulting team worked with Department’s design team to prepare wireframe and get these approved from business team after iterations.
Wireframes were transformed into graphic design material by the department design team with consultation and feedback with Amicia consulting team.
Amicia’s team translated the design material into working HTML markup by hand coding the design into HTML, CSS, JavaScript and XML/XSLT. Markup was test and remediated for accessibility and usability on various mobile and tablet devices.
Our team created SharePoint website to host the new website on the Department’s SharePoint environment.
HTML markup was translated by our team into SharePoint design and layouts. SharePoint design was applied on the new website. SharePoint design were tested again for mobile and tablet devices.
Various features such as website outbreak alerts, search, outbreak response carousel were implemented using C# and JavaScript using SharePoint web services.
New Outbreak home page and website was achieved successfully that presented the user with simplified information and easy to use
navigation. Features include:
– Current responses slider
– Static content features
– Standard content page
– Contact page
– SharePoint Search
– The colour combinations, site content navigation and markup compliant with WCAG2.0 AA
Outcomes and benefits
- SharePoint public facing website
- WCAG AA compliant
- Mobile responsive & suitable for tablet devices
- Alerts for outbreaks
- Migration of content into new website
- SharePoint site search
- Simplified information architecture and user friendly interface