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About this content design guidance
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Content design guidance / About this content design guidance
This guidance includes best-practice advice on how to write for government digital channels.
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Te reo Māori
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Content design guidance / Inclusive language / Te reo Māori
Ways to help show respect for and normalise the use of te reo Māori when using it in an English context in government content.
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What is Better Rules?
Found in Blog / Published 20 December 2019 / By Hamish Fraser
The Better Rules concept offers a fresh approach for multidisciplinary teams when developing policy. This approach provides them with the tools to develop a coherent concept model and potential rule set for the policy topic they’re focusing on.
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Accessibility for Microsoft Word documents
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Accessibility / Accessibility for Microsoft Word documents
Understand the best practices that increase the accessibility of Word documents and help with the conversion of Word to PDF.
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Lab+: Design sprint for SmartStart
Found in Blog / Published 28 July 2017 / By Susan Diamond
… from another room. That way we could see and hear everything but wouldn't make people uncomfortable. Overall, the feedback from was people was positive.
Lessons and surprisesWe did have some unexpected responses to some of the prototype designs.
Plain English. While we thought that we'd written plain, straightforward text for the prototype, we confused some of our testers. So we'll need to spend more time crafting the text to avoid any misunderstanding.
Context is everything. S… -
Why DPUP has a Transparency and Choice Guideline
Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Transparency and Choice Guideline / Why DPUP has a Transparency and Choice Guideline
Help people understand why and how providing personal information can help them or people in similar circumstances, if providing some information is optional, and their rights to access or request changes.
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NZ government logo markup
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Usability / NZ government logo markup
Use this HTML markup with the NZ government logo to make it accessible.
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Types of alternate formats
Found in Standards & guidance / Design and UX / Accessibility / Alternate formats / Types of alternate formats
An alternate format is web or print content that has been converted into a different format so that disabled people can access and use the information.
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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… -
Content maintenance
Found in Standards & guidance / Governance / Managing online channels / Web information and data lifecycle / Content maintenance
Maintenance of content, websites or services provides opportunities to review past procedures against current expectations of good practice. Legacy processes for managing online information are unlikely to meet the needs of today’s users.
