July 19, 2023 - Updates, priorities of the week

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

Meeting information

Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

3. Demo on code for Open Graph on Canada.ca webpages

Notes and action items

Digital Transformation Office (DTO) Updates

Multi-factor authentication for GCKey

Multi-factor authentication coming as of Jul 31, 2023.

Will update the GCKey help page to include information about multi-factor authentication.

Roundtable

New Open Government homepage (TBS)

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) - theme members, stay tuned for launch of new template, links will be shared in Slack #environment channel to allow for comments and concerns pre-launch (Marilyn Brooks)

IRCC - Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel (CUAET) intake closure web updates went live Monday afternoon

Health theme is coming back. We are starting our meetings in September after the CCO Learning Day and will get that theme resumed. If you are interested, reach out to Patricia Lamothe.

Revival of the GC Health Theme Partners Community! Time to join!

Get ready! It’s back! Join Health Canada in the GC Health Theme Partners Community (HTPC), where members share ideas and lessons learned related to web optimization projects and top tasks on Canada.ca. Let’s connect and help each other on current files and strive to become more innovative on how we serve Canadians. The community will officially launch in mid-September. Join now, collaborate and optimize Canada.ca! Looking forward to seeing you in the “#partners-info-partenaires” channel in the Slack Workspace.

Code for Open Graph on Canada.ca webpages

There are 2 components to these:

have good/compelling graphics that are accessible
have alt tags

You can use a validation service for Open Graph (from Facebook) or Twitter cards (from Twitter).

Use on campaign pages or pages you think people are going to share.

There is Twitter card and Open Graph metadata.

How to use on AEM:

Determine if it is a news page or a regular AEM page

Instructions for a generic page

Navigate to the page within the AEM architecture, click on the page (checkmark)
Open the author page
Access the properties by clicking on the top left button in and click properties
Click on additional tab
Scroll down and you will see the social media section
Click on the image icon to browse for the image you want to use
Add the alt text
Click ‘save’
Re-publish the page, otherwise the metadata won’t be saved
Go and do it to the alternate language page

Instructions for a news page

Click on top-left icon, ADOBE EXPERIENCE MANAGER
Find the page you want to edit
Click on the the page (checkmark)
Open the author page
Click edit at the top right
Go to the wrench icon
Under summary is a social media section
Fill in the image and alt text
Re-publish the page
Go and do it to the alternate language page

When you add metadata under the social media field it will add to both Open Graph and Twitter.

You can verify if something has open graph or twitter card metadata by right-clicking and looking in the metadata.

Gerard Dicks Pellerin - NRCan is developing guidance on how to use social media cards - supported by WCAG text on images