March 27, 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

Updates

DTO

Budget Day is tomorrow: Avoid publishing newsroom products between 3:30-4:30 p.m. on March 28

Federal-Provincial-Territorial meeting: Agenda was Web governance models - approaches, lessons learned and processes

• March 21 Federal-provincial-territorial meeting notes

Morning web priorities meetings:

• Wednesday – discussing next steps for the EasyRetro exercise on ways to bridge gaps between different groups creating web content
• Thursday – governance

Web Executive Board meeting:

• David Pepin presented the ChatGPT session that he presented at GCWP earlier this month
• Review of governance for Canada.ca discussion with follow-up questionnaire sent to gather additional feedback

NOTE: This Wednesday’s GCWP meeting is canceled

Roundtable

• CRA launched the new First Home Savings Account (FHSA) https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/topics/first-home-savings-account.html
• TBS launching the Digital privacy playbook today (a guide that summarizes privacy guidance for project managers https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/digital-privacy-playbook.html)
• Hybrid work in the public service topic page is now live https://www.canada.ca/en/government/publicservice/modernizing/hybrid-work.html
• Stephan Villeneuve (ECCC) hoping to prepare for plain language requirements (Laura to reach out to Nancy at SSC)
• Applications for One-time top-up to the Canada Housing Benefit closing this Friday (CRA key contact: Paul Psutka)
• PHAC launched their Health infobase design manual https://health-infobase.canada.ca/design-manual/
• Data visualization and maps discussion
  • Working with mobile view is a challenge
  • Ways of doing accessible data visualizations are needed
  • Are maps out of scope for accessibility?
  • PHAC uses a lot of interactive maps, but has only very basic documentation:
    • Health infobase design manual: Maps

Action: We will reach out to members who have said they have some experience to share and coordinate a future GCWP meeting that can focus on further discussions about this