Spring Cleaning Tips for Web Content
This week, we’re providing a few tips for tidying up redundant, outdated, and trivial content.
Accessibility
The design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities
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Watch this special presentation featuring 18f Content Strategist, Ryan Johnson, where he discusses how you can effectively write accessible web content.
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2020
A look ahead at the coming year, and what we’ll accomplish together.
2020
An Introduction to Accessibility
This week, we're taking at look at how to reframe our approach to encouraging others to build with accessibility.
Join the U.S. Web Design System Community
Are you and your team working with the U.S. Web Design System on your site, or have plans to start using it? The USWDS team has a public Slack channel where you can meet other government engineers, content specialists, and designers who are working with the USWDS to build accessible, mobile-friendly websites. — via U.S. Web Design System
Introducing USWDS 2.0
Today’s update introduces a powerful toolkit of new features to help make creating useful, consistent digital services faster, simpler, and more fun.
The U.S. Web Design System team will show you how to get started with USWDS 2.0: how to set up your project colors, fonts, and more.
2018
This online event will cover how to check if behaviors change when people are using keystrokes to click, which might give insight into how users with disabilities interact with your site
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2018
Join the the Plain Language Community of Practice for an hour-long conversation about how best to revise forms and convince your agency that the long-term benefits outweigh the cost.
2018
The March meeting of the Plain Language Community of Practice will focus what makes an infographic easy to understand
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2018
Making Multimedia Section 508-Compliant and Accessible
If you plan for accessibility when creating and posting media, you can create a rich, interactive community where users can get important government information from your agency’s official website or blog and dialogue with government.
