December 19, 2022 - Updates, priorities of the week

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

Meeting information

Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action items

Digital Transformation Office (DTO)

This is our last meeting before the holidays. If anything urgent comes up, you can always drop something in Slack. We will send out new meeting invitations in the new year

Footer update: There are no instructions coming this week, but a blog post and research summary will come out. They have links to GCweb code. You can read all the footer guidance over the holiday period. In January, after a few more consultations, we will come out with an actual timeline.

Departmental updates

PCH: Winterlude website launched last week

PSPC: Accessibility content going live tomorrow

SSC: Posted Accessibility plan on Friday

Finance/PCO: Finance is working on creating manual RSS feeds in AEM. PCO is looking into RSS feeds to see if they are coming back due to shifts in online tools. This is something to keep an eye on in the new year as more departments are looking at this.

Round table

Guidance for which tools to use for WET

The design is what’s important. There is no mandated tools to make that happen. GC web content should be coding agnostic but Canada.ca design is most supported by WET right now. WET holds monthly meetings where you can ask questions. Can also chat with David Elisma in DTO or Pierre Dubois or Francis Gorman at Principal Publisher.

COVID content/ lessons learned, and how to retire content

There are currently no plans to put together a retrospective on COVID. Health Canada can’t delete much content yet (although some clean up is being done). Can continue to look at this in the new year.

There's a difference between how we treat closed program/benefit pages and whether Communications decides to do a wrap-up report and point to those pages. Either way it is probably good to keep them up but with proper labeling.

Some examples: