Category: Data

Archives and Accessibility

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 […]

August 25, 2025

Workshopping WordPress Accessibility

An invigorating forum in Dover last month, as the GIC hosted a Website Accessibility Workshop for dozens of dedicated Delaware state agency website stakeholders. We had a great group of engaged web editors and agency members, and we can’t thank them all enough for taking time out of their busy schedules to focus on this […]

August 7, 2025

Consequences of Accessibility Non-Compliance

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 […]

August 4, 2025

Accessibility Alert: Alt Text Shortage!

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 […]

July 17, 2025

Vulnerability and Accessibility

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. […]

June 11, 2025

A Call for Feedback Partners!

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, […]

April 23, 2025

Conducting Your Own Competitive Analysis

The idea of redesigning an existing website can be daunting. It’s hard to know where to begin. Fortunately, the GIC is here to help Delaware agencies through the process of migrating to the new Lighthouse design system. Lighthouse takes care of a lot of design decisions, because its components have already been built with usability […]

April 15, 2025

Mid-August Lighthouse Dev Updates

The GIC team is hard at work, building our new Lighthouse design system. Every couple of weeks we’ll be checking in with a brief update on some of the more interesting aspects of our development efforts. Here’s what we’re working on now! Our web team has been building new components for Lighthouse, including: Let’s dig […]

August 15, 2024

Data Informed Design

We’ve all experienced the frustration of navigating through a government website, desperately trying to locate the right link or form amidst a sea of information. Whether it’s fulfilling our civic duties, filing documents, or simply seeking new resources, the process can often feel like an uphill battle—overwhelming, inefficient, and downright frustrating. If only there was […]

July 2, 2024