AI content quality control and review checklist, first version

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This is version 1.0 of an AI content quality checklist, made from a content designer’s point of view. Do credit me if you re-use the image or text!

AI content quality control and review checklist

Left side: inputs

Does your prompt reflect a researched user

need for the information?

Have you provided a priority order for user needs relating to different aspects of the information? For example, opening times may be a higher info seek priority than parking.

Does your prompt provide context?
AI content quality control and review checklist
Have you provided content standards relating to accessibility, inclusivity, readability and usability, that consider a range of physical and neurological content access challenges?
Have you provided a style guide?
Have you included user language terms?
Have you included important keywords?
Have you provided names, authors and credits
for quotes, citations and imagery?

Outputs:
Is the content factually correct?
Does it make sense when you read it?
Does the content meet criteria that decide whether the user need has been met?
Does the content answer user needs in the priority order you supplied?
Does the content work for all your different audience types, applying its information in a variety of contexts?
Does the content meet accessibility standards?
For example, is link text meaningful, do images have alt text descriptions, is it in clear language, is the font legible, is there good enough colour contrast?
Is the language used inclusive for all races, genders, abilities and ages? Might any framing or examples be exclude any groups?
Is the content easily absorbable for people who are dyslexic, very anxious, distressed or distracted, and people with low literacy? For example, are sentences generally around 15 words long?
Has the style guide been followed accurately?
Have user language terms been applied accurately?
Are important keywords included in a naturally flowing, non-obvious way?
Have names, authors and credits been applied correctly to quotes, citations and imagery?
Also on the image is the Cake Design Studio logo and a post it signposting the Cake website and a tip jar donation page: ko-fi.com/lizziebruce.

Inputs

  • Does your prompt reflect a researched user need for the information?
  • Have you provided a priority order for user needs relating to different aspects of the information? For example, opening times may be a higher info seek priority than parking.
  • Does your prompt provide context?
  • Have you provided content standards relating to accessibility, inclusivity, readability and usability, that consider a range of physical and neurological content access challenges?
  • Have you provided a style guide?
  • Have you included user language terms?
  • Have you included important keywords?
  • Have you provided names, authors and credits for quotes, citations and imagery?

Outputs

  • Is the content factually correct?
  • Does it make sense when you read it?
  • Does the content meet criteria that decide whether the user need has been met?
  • Does the content answer user needs in the priority order you supplied?
  • Does the content work for all your different audience types, applying its information in a variety of contexts?
  • Does the content meet accessibility standards?
  • For example, is link text meaningful, do images have alt text descriptions, is it in clear language, is the font legible, is there good enough colour contrast?
  • Is the language used inclusive for all races, genders, abilities and ages? Might any framing or examples exclude any groups?
  • Is the content easily absorbable for people who are dyslexic, very anxious, distressed or distracted, and people with low literacy? For example, are sentences generally around 15 words long?
  • Has the style guide been followed accurately?
  • Have user language terms been applied accurately?
  • Are important keywords included in a naturally flowing, non-obvious way?
  • Have names, authors and credits been applied correctly to quotes, citations and imagery?

*Especially if you copy and paste the text description – provided for screen reader accessibility, and for people who find the image text difficult to absorb for other reasons. Thanks!

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