August 30, 2023 - Updates, priorities of the week

Back to GC Web Priorities Meetings - Réunions des Priorités Web du GC

Agenda

1. Updates

Digital Transformation Office (DTO) updates

Update about the Sweet legislation web requirements. Many departments have their alerts posted on their websites about the legislation. Reminder to everyone to please put your alerts on. The alert must be displayed until November 26, 2023. Let us know if you have any questions.

Debrief of Learn how to calculate – Learning session. The session was focused on learning how to compare numbers from Adobe and Google advertising campaigns. For more information, we invite you to search the GC Web comms Slack channel: #analytics-search-evidence–Aug 24th.  

Changes for DTO

DTO is moving to CDS which is moving to ESDC. We will continue these meetings, but on the summer schedule for the time being.

Things are evolving, but DTO will still serve the GC web community and we will do our best to minimize impact on the web community.

Questions and answers

Question: Are there plans to review style guide?

Answer: Yes, we’re working on that now, based on feedback. Here is a presentation that explains our plans.

• Updates to the Canada.ca Style Guide

Roundtable

Heritage Canada

• Will be publishing proposed regulations for C-18 Online News Act on the Canada Gazette and will also be launching a related public consultation.  

Privy Council Office

• Lots of discussion about Microsoft PowerBI apps plus the topic of accessibility. Experts are looking at accessibility issues.

Question from the floor

• Twitter: Is the rebranding toolkit released? It has been recently released; DTO will be working to make the icon available to departments.

Principal Publisher

• Page analytics tool: There’s a new version out now. It allows you to enter custom date ranges and get data for websites other than Canada.ca. Don’t hesitate to contact PP for questions.