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Cabinet Minute — New Zealand Government Web Guidelines: Mandatory Requirements
Found in Standards & guidance / NZ Government Web Standards / Web Standards Cabinet Minute and Paper / Cabinet Minute — New Zealand Government Web Guidelines: Mandatory Requirements
The 2003 Cabinet Minute mandated the New Zealand Government Web Standards (then called the Web Guidelines) for all public service and non-public service departments in the State Services.
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Awards season for the Web Toolkit
Found in Blog / Published 26 September 2013 / By Susan Diamond
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Information from the Web Toolkit is now published on digital.govt.nz.
I just love good news, don’t you? Especially when hard work gets recognised. I’ve only been on the Digital Engagement team since May, so the creation of the Web Toolkit pre-dates my time here, but I’ve used it a lot, even before I walked in the door. And I’m pleased to say it’s received two big ticks of recognition over the last few months.
Shortlisted for the ANZIAsRecently, the Web Toolkit was shortlisted for the Aust… -
Better Rules Hack - Wellington
Found in Blog / Published 15 June 2018 / By Nadia Webster
The Service Innovation Lab (the Lab) partnered up with Legal Hackers NZ and Accenture to run the Wellington Better Rules Hack as part of Techweek’18. This weekend event explored the ideas and practice of turning legislation into machine-consumable ‘digital rules’ that can be reused and integrated across domains for the benefit of government, businesses, individuals, and communities. Around 40 people attended the event, which was hosted by Assurity and sponsored by Accenture, Catalyst Cloud, Ensp…
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LabPlus: Rates Rebates Prototyping
Found in Blog / Published 08 May 2018 / By Siobhan McCarthy
SummaryIn this post we are talking about prototyping and testing with people within the Rates Rebates Alpha. This post steps through the design prototyping approach to provide a practical understanding of what is involved, noting that all work is based on extensive user research already conducted around the challenge of rates rebates. The prototyping gave us a chance to test several quite different approaches to the rebate to find what worked best for people.
Rates rebates are a subsidy that gi… -
Video captioning: it’s not that complicated
Found in Blog / Published 13 January 2014 / By Susan Diamond
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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… -
Privacy notice for Digital.govt.nz
Found in About Digital.govt.nz / Privacy notice for Digital.govt.nz
This notice explains how and when Digital.govt.nz collects personal information, what we do with it and your right to see or change it.
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DNSSEC practice statement
Found in Standards & guidance / Technology and architecture / Government domain names / Manage your domains / Built-in security — DNSSEC / DNSSEC practice statement
On this page:
1. Introduction
1.1 Document Name and Identification
1.2 Community
1.3 Applicability
1.4 Document Management
2. Publication and Repositories
2.1 Official publication site
2.2 Publication of key signing keys
3. Operational Requirements
3.1 Activation of DNSSEC for child zone
3.2 Registration of delegation signer (DS) records
3.3 Method to prove possession of private key
3.4 Removal of DS record
4. Management, Operational and Physical Controls
4.1 Site Controls
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Web Usability Standard 1.1: Clearer requirements
Found in Blog / Published 01 October 2013 / By Jason Kiss
On 01 July 2013, the Web Accessibility Standard 1.0 and Web Usability Standard 1.0 replaced the NZ Government Web Standards 2.0. Since then, as departments and others work to apply the new Standards, there have been questions about what exactly certain requirements mean, particularly where the Web Usability Standard is concerned. This has helped identify those requirements whose language isn’t as clear as it could be, and which could lead to confusion or implementations that don’t actually meet…
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Providing content in alternate formats
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Accessibility / Alternate formats / Providing content in alternate formats
Understand the situations when you must provide content in alternate formats or when you might want to consider it, and learn how to get them produced.
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Customer usability testing
Found in Blog / Published 19 February 2020 / By Valerie Poort
Department of Internal Affairs senior service designer Valerie Poort discusses the customer usability testing undertaken before the launch of a new online application service for citizenship.
