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Best practices for building an accessible website using the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards

By Maya Benari , Julia Elman , Nick Bristow
March 29, 2016 best practices web design system accessibility

When you work for the federal government, accessibility isn’t simply a nice-to-have — it’s the law. That’s why the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards set developers on the path of creating websites that anyone can use. The Draft Standards feature documentation that can help you keep your websites accessible, even after you make modifications.
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Interesting things we learned from examining traffic patterns on analytics.usa.gov

By Melody Kramer
March 28, 2016 analytics.usa.gov

Ten federal agencies now have public dashboards and datasets for their web traffic on analytics.usa.gov. The dashboards show insights into how the public interacts with specific agency websites.
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How design consistency helps users navigate federal websites

By Melody Kramer , Carolyn Dew
March 25, 2016 federal front door user research user-centered design web design system best practices

We launched the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards last September, and over the next month, we plan to explore various topics related to design standards. In this post, we detail how our user research informed the decision decisions we made.
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Video highlights from 18F speeches over the last year

By Andre Francisco
March 24, 2016 video events second anniversary

Over the past year, members of our distributed team have given talks in over 30 locations about how we’re changing government digital services. Topics have ranged from how we work to how we help the government build and buy software to how people can join the 18F team.
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We asked over 100 of our coworkers: What have you loved working on?

By Melody Kramer
March 23, 2016 second anniversary how we work culture

One of the best parts of working at 18F is the focus on meaningful, mission-driven projects. But which projects? We asked everyone across the organization to tell us what they've most enjoyed working on. Here are their responses.
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