September 4th, 2024 - Web Priorities notes

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

Updates

PCO

• Let us know if you have any web work that you want to highlight with others, we love to see your good work
• We think it will be a very busy fall
• If you think you will need new vanity urls, try to give us a heads up ahead of time

DTO

• We’re working on guidance for campaigns, we realize that the current guidance is out of date.We have a working group looking at this together.

August update:

• WAGE introduced the “LGBTQ2 people” tag in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) for all relevant news products.
  • Also a new page: https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/free-to-be-me/news.html
  • https://www.canada.ca/fr/femmes-egalite-genres/sois-toi-meme/nouvelles.html
• TBS presented Departmental Results template
  • https://test.canada.ca/experimental/results-resultats/drr-content-model.html
  • https://test.canada.ca/experimental/results-resultats/drr-full-page.html
• DTO
  • We have updated section 2.0 Communicate clearly with plain language to better align with the plain language standard developed through the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
  • Updates to design.canda.ca:
    • Released Metadata guidance / Lignes directrices sur les métadonnées
    • Started integrating GC design system
    • Renamed the Content and Information Architecture Specification: Canada.ca Specifications
  • Friendly reminder to remove Share this page widget
  • Continuing to do some tests on home page of Canada.ca, and we will share the results with you at a future date

RCMP

Question about name field for forms, are there best practices, number of characters, special characters etc…any other criteria?

DTO

• We can connect you with the GC Forms team who might have some research.
• Also Gov.uk has research on this issue: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/names/
• https://www.forms.service.gov.uk/create-good-forms

Roundtable

ISED

• We have a new page about AI: Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Canada.ca

WAGE

• We've opened a call for applications to our Indigenous Women's circle: https://www.canada.ca/en/women-gender-equality/indigenous-womens-circle/apply.html

PSPC

• Public land bank site launched last week. Still issues with the application itself - program working directly with the 3rd party vendor (the application doesn't work on mobile)
• Migrating additional content to AEM this week and next (air, land, marine defence) - will be reaching out to DND to update links
• On the positive side for Public lands, we were able to integrate the look from the overall GC housing strategy for the pillar we are supporting and were able to at least add some user-experience best practices. Considering how many people were involved, this is a win for us.
• We did this using components - not freestyle, using AEM.
• Public lands for homes - Canada.ca

TBS

• We're doing some testing with SSC and Userlytics to find out why some departments have network issues accessing our studies.
• I'm hoping to find someone who was blocked from our DRR survey, to perhaps join us so we can see what might be happening in the back-end
• If anyone's interested in what we find out, let me know and I'll keep you posted: [[1]]

GC Digital Analytics Awards: Nomination Period Extended to September 13th, 2024

Now that summer is winding down we decided to extend the nomination period for the 2024 GC Digital Analytics Awards to Friday, September 13th, 2024. This will give those who were away a chance to recognize their colleagues.  

These award nominations can be submitted for an individual, group, or project to acknowledge those that have made significant advances in digital analytics across the Government of Canada. Detailed instructions for submitting a nomination are available on the GC Digital Analytics Awards page on GCXchange.

Accessibility Standards Canada

• New standard on accessibility for ICT products and services: https://accessible.canada.ca/en-301-549-accessibility-requirements-ict-products-and-services