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The Design System Ecosystem
It depends on the level of contribution.
You can contribute by responding to the discussions in the backlog[0], by improving the actual distributed styles and code[1] or suggesting improvements to the documentation in the link I posted above.
Bigger changes need to be backed up with user research, evidence of user needs and accessibility reviews and checks.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
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Can we at least modernize visually hidden?
However looking at the samples with modern browsers I was unable to see the overflow issue. So it might now be entirely possible that setting negative margin is not required anymore. And it happens to actually be harmful: negative margin can change the reading order in VoiceOver!
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Daily Megathread - 04/03/2023
It's quite literally open source, with a permissive license. It's often more than just inspiration, it's the literal code.
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Let's talk about the truth
Check it out: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/ and: https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend (MIT license)
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What’s that one thing that makes you feel proud about the U.K. or being British?
For those who may be interested, the front end is actually open sourced for third parties to use.
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The impact of removing jQuery on our web performance
To that end, we're still in the process of dropping support for IE 8–10, along with reducing IE 11 to 'functional'—it doesn't always look the same, but users can still complete tasks.
- Εβδομαδιαία συζήτηση του /r/greece | Weekly /r/greece discussion thread 08/08/2022
- How and why we removed jQuery from Gov.uk
- O app do Caixa Tem para pegar os R$ 1k do FGTS pede foto de documentos. Mas tira foto na resolução mais alta da câmera e em seguida recusa o arquivo por ser muito grande.
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Gov.uk has removed its dependency on jQuery
They're also looking to reduce support for IE11:
govuk-design-system-backlog
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The Design System Ecosystem
It depends on the level of contribution.
You can contribute by responding to the discussions in the backlog[0], by improving the actual distributed styles and code[1] or suggesting improvements to the documentation in the link I posted above.
Bigger changes need to be backed up with user research, evidence of user needs and accessibility reviews and checks.
[0] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend
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Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer support issues
You'll find lots of info in the gov.uk design system backlog and on the accessibility blog.
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The Gov.uk website is amazing.
the Design System component backlog. There' is an absolute wealth of accessibility information and user research in there
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Falsehoods programmers believe about email
In my case in the U.K. the passport office telephoned me once, for my first digital passport in the 1990s, asking rather apologetically if they'd mind them putting X's in the first name since their computer system couldn't cope with it being empty. Whereas the U.K. Driver and Vehicle Licencing Agency (DVLA) has no problem at all and shows my legal name correctly.
Two annoying exceptions (not strictly government created/operated) are the internal (local) NHS registration system and some local authority (local council) electoral role (voter registration) systems that do it badly - usually due to having bought in an external 'enterprise' application to handle it, or trying to interface many disparate systems.
Generally, over the last 25+ years, I've found government organisations are great at handling these corner cases but random private sector / out-sourced development is worst.
Getting traction to get things fixed is the hardest part - being treated as dumb (usually by first-line support and their 'managers') when I set out a clear case and rationale for the bug and how to fix it has to be amongst my least favourite voluntary community-spirited endeavours. The short-cut I apply there, now, is a an email CC-ed to the organisation head (chair, CEO) and senior legal person.
There is an up-side to it though - I rarely if ever suffer any kind of spam or phishing and anyone trying identity theft will have to have much more determination than me to overcome all the obstacles :P
[0] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/email-addresse...
[1] https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu...
[2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/names/
[3] https://design-system.service.gov.uk/patterns/
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The Gov.uk Design System is now live
The short answer is that the native date inputs aren't accessible. They don't work nicely with all assistive technology like JAWS.
There's more of a discussion here
https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system-backlog/issu...
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Evaluating accessibility
A recent example of this is the conversation around the use of an accordion where we should a step back, and change how we present the information.
What are some alternatives?
dropin-minimal-css - Drop-in switcher for previewing minimal CSS frameworks
uswds - The U.S. Web Design System helps the federal government build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly websites.
govuk-design-system - One place for service teams to find styles, components and patterns for designing government services.
react-scanner - Extract React components and props usage from code.
govuk-infrastructure - Terraform turnup automation for the EKS Kubernetes clusters that host GOV.UK. See https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-helm-charts for application config.
eq-survey-runner - eQ Survey Runner
gatsby-starter-mate - An accessible and fast portfolio starter for Gatsby integrated with Contentful CMS
leerob.io - ✨ My portfolio built with Next.js, Tailwind, and Vercel.
HTML5test - How well does your browser support HTML5?
Orange-Boosted-Bootstrap - Orange Boosted is an accessible, ergonomic and Orange branded framework based on Bootstrap