November 1, 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

Notes and action items

Updates

• Jessie Adcock will be replaced by Paul Wagner as CEO of CDS and Jessie will be returning to TBS to support the Office of the Chief Information Officer of Canada
• Web Executive meeting tomorrow, results of Q2 being discussed as well as DTO/CDS transition
• Page feedback tool: Principal Publisher will likely release next week
  • Doesn’t affect departments currently using alpha tool, will still be operational

Roundtable

PCO

• Veteran’s content going live tomorrow
• Make sure your content is up to date, please remember to proactively check for broken links

IRCC

• Strategic Immigration review went live yesterday: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/canada-future-immigration-system.html
• New immigration levels are being tabled this afternoon in Parliament - if there are questions coming to other departments general inquiry lines send them to IRCC
• New content on adding special measures and reacting to world issues right now (Sudan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Morocco, Lebanon, Israel/West Bank/Gaza, etc.)

Health Canada

• Healthy Canadians podcast launched today. First topic is Radon – Check it out!
• Final email sent to officially sunset Get Updates on COVID (GUC-19) requesting CDS delete EN and FR notifications templates (Notify)
• HC shared some upcoming events and training opps in the Slack #events-training channel

Finance

When the Fall Economic Summit blackout is announced, we will ask for a mini AEM blackout from 3:30 to 4:30pm on FES day, same as last year. Date is not known at this time.

Questions and Answers

Share this button

• You can can edit the ‘Share this page’ button as needed
• Should we have this button at all?
• DTO has investigated and it’s not used very often, not mandatory part of the template
• It’s on the to do list to look at this component, but lower priority
• On mobile, most users have a baked in share function, makes button less useful
• Departments can remove it if they wish

Any update on Twitter X logo?

• Update will come from TBS, but no update at this time

Any update on GC web forms?

• Forms will have protected B status, on forward agenda, but no specific updates at this time

DTO presentation - Sign in button

• Applied to different Canada.ca pages, and many CRA pages.

• Usage has been increasing
• Up to 82 accounts now
• Want to build on this progress, people are looking for these sign in buttons, creates demand to have sign in on many different pages
• Let's expand the sign in buttons
• CRA has a page listing all accounts and when users should access them
• Part of the mandatory pattern, is a section at the bottom of the page to direct users to the right account
• Trying to change users view of the GCKey account, to inform users that’s it’s a way to verify, not an account
• This work is ongoing with working group

Comment from floor:

What are barriers to implementing a sign-in button?

• Technical problems to identify user
  • Answer: There should be a register button and a sign in button
  • Registration information should be a on a different page