GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #2

By GIC on October 22nd, 2025

DTI to Host Online Digital Accessibility Training Series As part of Delaware’s Digital Accessibility Initiative, the Department of Technology and Information (DTI) is launching a four-part Accessibility Training Series to support all Level Access users and agency accessibility leads. This series will help build practical skills for creating, reviewing, and remediating accessible PDFs in alignment […]

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Quick Catch-up: Lighthouse and Storybook

By GIC on October 21st, 2025

We’d like to welcome our new subscribers to the blog and newsletter by offering a bit of context. The newsletter is specifically about accessibility: tips, tricks, events, regulatory info. The blog is a longer-form platform where we certainly get into accessibility, but often as it pertains to the Lighthouse design system. In a nutshell, Lighthouse […]

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GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #1

By GIC on October 08th, 2025

Welcome to our new newsletter! Our goal is to inform, to alert, and to provide digital accessibility resources for editors and stakeholders of Delaware state agencies that work with the GIC. We’ll be counting down to the pending ADA accessibility deadline of April 24, 2026, reminding you to keep your website’s remediation on your radar […]

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Archives and Accessibility

By GIC on August 25th, 2025

How an archive section can help your agency reach website compliance Concerns About Content Volume Something we heard a lot at our recent Accessibility Workshop was concern about the sheer volume of content that needs remediation on some agency websites. If your site has literally thousands of PDFs dating back a couple decades, you aren’t […]

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Consequences of Accessibility Non-Compliance

By GIC on August 04th, 2025

April 24, 2026 is less than nine months away as of this writing. By now, almost everyone who works with government websites has heard this date repeated; it’s the pending deadline for the new ADA Accessibility Rules. First and foremost, our concern should be with helping disabled citizens who are being unfairly kept from public […]

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Accessibility Alert: Alt Text Shortage!

By GIC on July 17th, 2025

Today we’re sounding the alarm: We need your help to meet the pending accessibility deadline! The Challenge at Hand A quick reminder: April 24, 2026 is the deadline for public entities to comply with the new digital accessibility requirements under Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. That means that by that date, anything […]

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Vulnerability and Accessibility

By GIC on June 11th, 2025

Vulnerability is the willingness to step outside your comfort zone and reveal things about yourself in hopes of inspiring a beneficial response. We’ve written this blog with that same mindset that guides the new Lighthouse design system: the belief that developing in an open-source environment fosters greater collaboration and leads to a stronger final product. […]

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Let’s Hit the Links!

By GIC on May 22nd, 2025

A winning strategy in the face of most challenges is to continually self-evaluate. The very best at any discipline are also able to make course corrections when circumstances change. Here at the GIC, we continue to roll out development of the new Lighthouse design system for your agency’s website. We’re also evaluating our own game […]

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Colorful Options in Lighthouse

By GIC on April 30th, 2025

It can be a challenge to inject a little color into a government website! Now try to do it while maintaining a common look and feel across an entire state of diverse departments, agencies, and commissions. It’s enough to send a person searching for unexpectedly captivating entertainment to zen out on! One of the main […]

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A Call for Feedback Partners!

By GIC on April 23rd, 2025

We’d like to take a moment to renew our call for Lighthouse feedback partners! Lighthouse is now fully available to explore, and we invite developers and agency web editors to dig their hands into the sand and begin to envision their own new Lighthouse websites. This effort is about building a community to provide criticism, […]

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