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Being a public double agent in Aotearoa New Zealand
Found in Blog / Published 06 July 2018 / By Matti Schneider ,
Guest blog post from Matti Schneider, a nomadic public service innovator.
I had been in Wellington for two months when I learned through Legal Hackers there was a local event for the first worldwide Computational Law & Blockchain Festival.
As I had briefly worked with a cryptocurrency venture in Aotearoa New Zealand, met a couple of founders of blockchain-based technologies in Japan, and assessed the use of blockchain for citizen identity storage in France back in 2016, I was interested in… -
Beta.govt.nz design update
Found in Blog / Published 05 December 2013 / By Nathan Wall ,
We recently talked about some of what we found in our last round of user testing. As well as our user research sessions, we’ve been collecting feedback from people looking at the beta site — there have been a few common patterns that have influenced our priorities in a big way.
The changes we just releasedWe’ve been making our way through the reports, prioritising design work for the biggest problems and diving into some quick fixes. Today we released:
an updated homepage
font size and colour… -
Google Analytics screencast — Tip #5: Bounce Rates (High is bad?)
Found in Blog / Published 28 September 2015 / By Nathan Wall ,
A high bounce rate can be bad, but it can also be a sign that the page is doing exactly what you've designed it to do.
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Benefiting from a modern, cloud-based workplace during COVID-19
Found in Showcase
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development leveraged its cloud capabilities during COVID-19 and adapted its use of digital tools to continue core business and connect remotely in new ways.
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Google Analytics screencast — Tip #6: Segments
Found in Blog / Published 30 September 2015 / By Nathan Wall ,
Segments are one of the most powerful things that Google Analytics allows you to do.
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Video captioning: it’s not that complicated
Found in Blog / Published 13 January 2014 / By Susan Diamond ,
Note
Information from the Web Toolkit mentioned in this post is now published on digital.govt.nz.
See latest Accessible video guidance.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
William Albert Allard (photographer)
Sometimes doing the right thing can seem like so much work…
But not if we’re talking about getting captions done for any videos that you want to post online: that’s just ridiculously easy, surprisingly fast and quite inexpensive. While i… -
Open data, open government
Found in Blog / Published 14 December 2018 / By Victoria Wray ,
Open data forms a foundation for open government. It has transparency baked in, as it makes the evidence for decision making and accountability open to scrutiny. It also recognises the importance of open standards for easy access and reuse. As part of a commitment to the Open Government Partnership's 3rd National Action Plan, the GCDO is collaborating across government to release an open dataset of government agency names, contact details and roles. This will reduce considerable duplication of effort across government as well as open up opportunities for anyone to analyse and build on this data about the structure of government.
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Meeting Web Standard 2.4 on Browser Testing
Found in Blog / Published 20 November 2012 / By Jason Kiss ,
Update (28-11-13): The New Zealand Government Web Standards 2.0 have been replaced by the Web Accessibility Standard and the Web Usability Standard. There is no longer a requirement to test in specific browsers. See the related guidance document, Browser and device testing.
Lately, a number of people have been writing to web.standards@dia.govt.nz asking the same question: What browsers am I supposed to test my websites in given the changes to Yahoo! Graded Browser Support?
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Part II: Literacy and government websites – to the data!
Found in Blog / Published 17 February 2015 / By Annika Naschitzki ,
In the first part of this blog post series, I discussed research showing that low literacy affects a large proportion of New Zealand’s working population. In this section, I’ll explain why that matters and what Govt.nz is doing about it.
Why this matters for government websitesAdult Learning and Life Skill (ALL) surveyThis suggests that there may be a systematic but unnoticed bias in how the public sector designs services. What government workers and consultants find easy to understand may not… -
NZ Government Web Standards Working Group
Found in Blog / Published 13 February 2013 / By Jason Kiss ,
We just wanted to inform of the recent re-establishment of the NZ Government Web Standards Working Group to help agencies with the NZ Government Web Standards and accessibility.
BackgroundIn 2011, the Department of Internal Affairs reviewed the NZ Government Web Standards (NZGWS) programme. This review involved assessments of agency websites against the Web Standards, as well as consultations with disability communities, government web practitioners, and third-party vendors.
The review made it…
