February 14, 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

Updates

DTO

• Changing the H1 styling on track for next week, we’re introducing the shorter stubbier red line
• Just a reminder to please do the Alert Game! Full description on Slack and coming in DTO newsletter
  • https://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50242626/Which-alert-when
  • https://survey.alchemer-ca.com/s3/50242626/1c57096e29f8

PCO

• Asking theme leads to check their pages to see if they need a refresh, or if there are new issues that you want to highlight, let’s emphasize fresh content
• Rebranding Climate action incentive payment (CAIP) to Canada Carbon Rebate (CCR)
  • News release:
    • EN: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2024/02/government-announces-canada-carbon-rebate-amounts-for-2024-25.html
    • FR : https://www.canada.ca/fr/ministere-finances/nouvelles/2024/02/le-gouvernement-annonce-les-montants-de-la-remise-canadienne-sur-le-carbone-pour-20242025.html
  • New vanity URLs: canada.ca/canada-carbon-rebate and canada.ca/remise-canadienne-carbone

Roundtable

IRCC

• Finished migrating topic pages to new template, more than 45 in total

DTO

• We have finished reviewing the feedback about the patterns audit, we will do a presentation soon at upcoming GCWP meeting

DTO - Canada.ca Style guide updates - Presentation

• Canadian Style has been archived
• Replacing references to The Canadian Style with Writing Tips Plus
• Inverted pyramid
  • How to present your information, we have simplified it to be more accessible
• Clarifications for abbreviations, styles of address for Dr., using personal names etc.
• How to add contextual information to hyperlinks

Comment: For the advice for acronyms, if it’s a long page, and there’s a table of contents, the user might be jumping past the section where the acronym is defined

• There’s such thing as a “hovering acronym” tag, but this doesn’t meet WCAG requirements as well as doesn’t work well for mobile

General questions and comments

Q: Has anyone worked with posting redacted content? Are there any guidelines, such as terminology, to indicate how much has been redacted etc…?

A: (from RCMP) We use "[REDACTED]" with an explanation at the top, but with no studies to support that.

A: (from ISED and CSC) we've never indicated the "amount" of content - we simply use the word: [REDACTED]/[CAVIRDE]

Comment

CRA is working on a safety feature. This is for people who may be living in violent or potentially violent domestic situations. They are working on a button that would toggle the screen from information that users may want to keep private - to something innocuous such as google.

This could be presented at an upcoming GCWP. Reach out to Penny Day at CRA if you’re interested in this initiative.

Examples of where this has be done on other GoC sites:

• Gender-Based Violence- Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Human Trafficking (publicsafety.gc.ca)
• Sexual Misconduct Support and Resource Centre - Canada.ca
• For people receiving support (justice.gc.ca)