January 15, 2025 - accessibility regulations, open data visualizations

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

Updates

• Reminder that the official acronym for the Government of Canada is GC, not GoC (via TBS)
• The next Web Executive Board meeting taking place on Thursday, January 16, 2025

Accessible Canada Act - proposed updates to regulations

• Presentation from Roberto Tesolin, ESDC Accessible Canada Directorate
• Proposed changes to the Accessible Canada Regulations were published for consultation via the Canada Gazette in December
• Focus is on digital accessibility including both public-facing web and internal-facing systems
• Consultation is open until February 19, 2025 - Folks are encouraged to attend technical briefings - details on how to confirm your attendance are in the attached message:

media:Mass Email - ICT Regulations CG1 final sharing version.docx

Open Government - new data visualizations

• Presentation from Damian Laverty, TBS GC Transparency Solutions
• Demo'ed new data visualization functionality for proactive disclosure data from open.canada.ca, to be launching soon
• Makes data that was already openly available (in a big spreadsheet) more digestible and understandable through interactive data visulation features
• Developed using PowerBI
• Interest in a follow-up regarding approach to accessibility for these features