Category: Design

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

Help Us with a Quick Response!

Hello! As you know, we at the GIC are helping our great Delaware state agencies prepare for the April 24, 2026, ADA Accessibility Deadline. We have a simple question that we’re hoping will help provide inspiration among those of us in the same boat: What is your agency doing these days to prepare for the […]

August 18, 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

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

Let’s Hit the Links!

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 […]

May 22, 2025

Colorful Options in Lighthouse

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 […]

April 30, 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

The Lighthouse Has Been Lit!

Calling all Developers and Designers to Help Us Test It! We’ve got exciting news to share regarding the development of our new design system Lighthouse: The bulk of our website code and content design is now live and available for everyone through our new Storybook site! From the perspective of open-source development, this essentially means […]

March 31, 2025