Here’s how I like to run audit prebriefs: the meeting before the audit.
- Frame the audit appropriately. For example: the audit is about checking the accessibility status of the site.
- Ask the team to do a walkthrough of the key user journeys. Record it so we can refer back to it later.
- Ask them if they have any major updates scheduled.
- If there’s a major redesign or rebuild coming soon, it will probably make sense to audit after that.
- For now, offer support and training for for the redesign or rebuild.
- Ask them what accessibility testing they’ve done already.
- Manual, automated, usability, something else?
- If they haven’t done any, discuss where they might start.
- Ask them what their capacity to make any fixes from the audit is like.
- If anyone seems particularly keen, offer to demonstrate some of the checks we do in an audit.
After the prebrief, I follow my Accessibility audit process. After the audit, I do the debrief: Delivering the results of an accessibility audit.