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Governing standards
Includes guidelines, checklists, and implementation guides to enable teams to:
- share evidence, research, and decision making openly, and
- make sensitive data, information, and newly developed code open for sharing and reusability.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=24227
Describes the usability requirements for Government of Canada websites, including requirements for domain names, terms, conditions and archiving online web content, as well as common page layouts and visual design elements.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=23601
Ensures the uniform application of a high level of web accessibility across Government of Canada websites and web applications.
(list does not include AAA standards, only A and AA)
🔗 https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#perceivable
A wide range of recommendations for making Web content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss, learning disabilities, cognitive limitations, limited movement, speech disabilities, photosensitivity and combinations of these. Following these guidelines will also often make your Web content more usable to users in general.
WCAG 2.0 and WCAG 2.1: Bringing Accessibility into the 21st Century
🔗 https://go.3playmedia.com/hubfs/WP%20PDFs/WCAG%20wp%20final-1.pdf
An overview of:
- WCAG 2.0, which uses four design principles (each with their own guidelines and corresponding success criteria of level A, AA, or AAA), and
- WCAG 2.1, which is backwards compatible with WCAG 2.0 (the 2.0 success criteria are the same as in 2.1, but 2.1 has additional guidelines).
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=30683
Gives context and rules for how the Government of Canada (GC) enables communication with the public about policies, programs, services and initiatives, including the administration of the GC official symbols.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=30682
Provides rules for managing and coordinating communications, including procedures for advertising, public opinion research, social media and web communications.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=25875
Improves Canadians’ web experience by using technologies that support mobile devices and by making information technology easier to use in order to find government information.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=27088
Sets out requirements for ensuring the optimization of Government of Canada websites and applications with respect to mobile devices, and permits only the justifiable use of device-based mobile applications.
This guidance supports the requirements in the Policy on Communications and Federal Identity, Directive on the Management of Communications and Procedures for Publishing.
🔗 https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/pol/doc-eng.aspx?id=27167
Outlines procedures to ensure the ready availability and efficient, cost-effective publication of your communications products.
🔗 https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/O-3.01/
An Act respecting the status and use of the official languages of Canada.
This guide establishes the rules you must use to develop and edit English web content that will be published on a Government of Canada website.