November 30, 2022 - Updates, priorities of the week

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Invitation

Wednesday, November 30, 2022 – 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

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Agenda

1. Updates

2. Accessibility plan template

3. New global and contextual footer

4. Roundtable

Notes and action items

Privy Council Office (PCO)

• Thank you to Census for their release - there were some great promos from Statistics Canada
• Reminder: Really busy on promos so if you have one coming for early December just know it is a busy time

Principal Publisher (PP)

• Working on promo for Dental Benefits
• Have processed vanity urls for housing and dental
• Five or six departments have reached out for help building the web forms required for accessibility feedback
  • If web teams need help they can submit a request to Principal Publisher at Service Canada - GCpedia

Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC)

Have an official date to launch our new institutional page and sub-pages on Canada.ca (December 12).

Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA)

New NEXUS pages to go live December 1. Issuing related news release on December 2.

Digital Transformation Office (DTO)

• Presentation on new accessibility template
  • It’s a good idea to have a link to the feedback process from within your accessibility plan.
  • Note: separate 48-hour reporting requirements after publication of accessibility plans and feedback processes outlined in the presentation
  • Departments can add more things to these designs
  • The template will also likely evolve as the Information and communications technologies (ICT) standards come into effect next year
  • As you publish your accessibility sections and people submit feedback we want to hear how things are going
  • We plan to do user testing as well so we can iterate
  • Will eventually integrate the accessibility templates into the Pattern and Template library so it is properly documented and available through the Web Experience Toolkit
  • Open Government will look at writing a standard description for all accessibility plans and create a collection for accessibility plans and their related reports so they are a searchable collection

• Discussion around double H1s in general on web pages and whether they are allowed. DTO will look at this and come back to the community with some clarification.
• New footer is being soft launched
  • Go to design.canada.ca and search Global footer
  • Please do not implement this on your websites yet
  • Go through the documentation, look at the code, digest it over the next few weeks, come to us with any questions
  • For departments with contextualized Contac links in the current footer, Principal Publisher will reach out to you about how to implement the contextual band
  • We will release timeframes for implementation shortly, along with the research summary and blog post related to the footer
  • We are hoping to create an implementation window so that all departments can implement around the same time, likely in mid or late January