A recently convened group is hoping to bring navigability, customization and quicker content turnarounds to Canada’s court websites. In a post on Slaw today, Patrick Cormier details the progress made by the Canadian Centre for Court Technology’s working group on modernizing the websites of the country’s courts.
A key section of the working group’s report identifies 11 key principles that should direct how court websites are designed:
- The Right Information for Specific Audiences
- Empowerment
- Timeliness
- Notification
- Content Organization & Search
- Security
- Bilinguism
- Accessibility
- Interactivity
- Viability
- Simplicity
The first three of these are explained in Cormier’s post: “The Right Information for Specific Audiences” focuses on organizing content according to category of user (journalists, lawyers, the public, etc); “Empowerment” means creating avenues for content consumers and creators to control what they see and how they see it; and “Timeliness” is about minimizing the delay between when information is ready to appear on a court website, and when it actually goes live.
The group’s full report will be unveiled at next month’s Canadian Forum on Court Technology.