January 10, 2024 - 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

DTO Update

At the end of 2023 we shared a Retrospective that we started working on. Please share your thoughts if you haven’t had a chance. What we’ve seen so far:

Themes

• Value in community
• Sharing common struggles/wins
• Sharing research results

To stop:

• No more pdfs
• No big infographics and lists

Wants:

• To share software resources like Figma
• Manage approvals better
• Getting rid of ROT

Design system audit

• Audit of the Canada.ca patterns and templates
• We received a some feedback, but would welcome more please, we're open for feedback for another two weeks
• Will take you approximately 15 minutes or so

Upcoming presentations

In the upcoming weeks we will have presentations from departments about using forms and from IRCC about adding the Sign in page. If you have any initiatives that you would like to share, don't be shy, and contact us so that you can present to the group: dto.btn@tbs-sct.gc.ca.

Co-chair of Federal-Provincial-Territorial (FPT) meetings

We’re looking for anyone who’s interested in co-chairing the FPT web meetings. Please contact DTO for further details.

Roundtable

Global Affairs Canada

• We added special measures for people living in Gaza to the Israel response page yesterday. Link: Canada’s response to the crisis in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip (international.gc.ca)

IRCC

• Isreal, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip temporary special measures went live January 9.
• We used GC Forms to gather names of those interested in updates over the holidays and shared the update with subscribers once the announcement was made to great success

FIN

• We will be launching a Housing Mortgage charter page on Canada.ca on the week of January 22. Details still to come.

Public Safety

• COVID-19 Frauds and Scams page now decommissioned. No other updates at this time.

CSC

• Web content went live on canada.ca yesterday
• SSC implementing our re-directs today

ECC

• We’ve launched several consultations.

Questions and Answers

Any major Usability or UX testing plans for Q4? Curious if in house or working with external service?

• PSPC is currently in the middle of multiple UX studies (2 tree tests, 1 usability test). All in-house.
• Canada Border Services is going to attempt some facilitated UX testing on our CARM pages.
• SSC working to get Adobe to test Adobe Target for sections of our career pages. Looking to split costs internally with other groups that might be interested in A/B testing.

Question if anyone has specific guidance from their department on the use of or on how they're creating QR codes?

• Valuable information in this slack thread:

https://gc-web-comms.slack.com/archives/C010ZD33APQ/p1704743095899119

Has anyone been successful in creating accessible PDFs for large reports?  

• The general feedback is to work on making the HTML accessible, as the evidence shows people don’t click the pdf versions
• Community generally advises against using pdfs