November 23, 2022 - Updates, priorities of the week

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Invitation

Wednesday, November 23, 2022 – 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Agenda

1. Updates

2. Roundtable

Notes and action items

COVID

• No more distribution monitoring of COVID tests for small and medium businesses
• New boosters will be authorized in December
• Health Canada is performing a ROT (redundant, outdated and trivial) exercise on COVID content
  • 1,400 pages slated for deletion
  • DTO encourages other departments to start doing the same and watch for broken links

Monkeypox

• Will be renamed M-Pox, but hold off on changing the name in content until it is confirmed
• The spread is slowing so it is being deprioritized in communications channels

Ebola

• No updates

Passports

• No updates

Travel

• No updates

PCO

• Principal Publisher sent out 522 links, please action them and/or fix any broken links you find
  • A lot of the broken links have to do with the Consulting Canadians content
• If broken links are built into the ROT process that would be ideal
• May add a Slack channel to track this

Principal Publisher (PP)

• Reminder: Redirects are supposed to be temporary, will be sending emails asking for permission to delete some
• Nothing will be deleted without permission
• Working with clients on travel search optimization and ROT

Digital Transformation Office (DTO)

• Finalizing the accessibility feedback prototype - hoping to demo it next Wednesday
• Finalizing footer guidance
  • Don’t implement it right away, please wait until January
  • Principal Publisher will give departments time to look at the code then in January it will be made available for AEM and non-AEM sites
  • It is especially important for departments who have contextualized footers to engage with Principal Publisher, PP has a list of departments with those footers and will reach out

Upcoming content

• Dental benefit and housing benefit content coming soon
• May have a promo for dental by November 28

DOCX to HTML demo

• Demo on the DOCX to HTML prototype: From DOCX to Canada.ca - Instructions
• The tool makes it possible to take a properly formatted .docx and convert it to code
• The tool is on the alpha workspace
• Putting it out there to see if the community finds it useful/sees problems with it