Category: Lighthouse

Keeping Delaware’s Social Media Accessible

Most people who work with Delaware state websites are aware of the need to make their content accessible. But they may not realize that the same standards (and laws) apply to social media. Social media is often the fastest way to reach the public, but if posts aren’t created with accessibility in mind, they can […]

December 8, 2025

Bringing Everyone to the Table

How Your Colleagues Can Help Keep Your Site Accessible It’s Thanksgiving week, so we’re going to try to help you bring your colleagues to the table to start a discussion about how your agency creates documents. And we’re even going to share some resources that can be printed out and taped up as reminders for […]

November 24, 2025

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #4

DTI’s Accessibility Training Seminars Now Available Online A few weeks ago, DTI brought in our representatives from Level Access to lead four separate presentations on digital accessibility. The PDF Accessibility training recordings are now available on the A11y Coalition SharePoint site. If you joined the Level Access Trainings and became a member of the DTI […]

November 20, 2025

Coming Soon: New Accessibility Tool!

Some web editors at the agencies and municipalities that work with the GIC may have noticed a change in their WordPress user interface. They may also have noticed some new icons popping up… Good news- they are there to help achieve and maintain accessibility compliance! This week, the GIC has begun a phased roll-out of […]

November 19, 2025

New PDF Policy

One of the biggest sources of accessibility problems on our state agency websites comes from the tens of thousands of legacy PDFs that have been posted over the years. We wanted to drop a quick note here today about a new GIC policy aimed at addressing the PDF problem as it pertains to new website […]

November 17, 2025

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #3

Special Dates in November Highlight Accessibility Awareness November is a special month in the world of digital accessibility! There are two days that have been designated for awareness that have spawned literally hundreds of events around the world. World Usability Day, Thursday November 13th World Usability Day is this Thursday, and this year marks its […]

November 10, 2025

Lighthouse Ghost Stories!

‘Tis the season to share scary ghost stories! We’ve been talking a lot about the Lighthouse design system in this platform. But, in the spirit of the season, we thought we’d take a look at some of the spooky stories involving Delaware’s actual lighthouses. We discovered some fascinating and freaky ghost stories! We make no […]

October 29, 2025

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #2

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 […]

October 22, 2025

Quick Catch-up: Lighthouse and Storybook

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 […]

October 21, 2025

GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #1

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 […]

October 8, 2025