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4 years later, we are still marching for our lives
Content Warning: The following article contains mention of death, suicide, and gun violence. To speak with Counseling and Psychological Services, please call (609) 258-3141. The following is a guest contribution and reflects the author’s views alone. For information on how to submit to the Opinion Section, click here. On May 24, 2022, 19 children and two teachers were shot dead in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas.
There is no outgrowing gun violence
Content Warning: The following column contains descriptions of gun violence. To speak with Counseling and Psychological Services, please call (609) 258-3141. The following is a guest contribution and reflects the authors’ views alone. For information on how to submit an article to the Opinion Section, click here.
18F: Digital service delivery | How the U.S. Customs and Border Protection uses the U.S. Web Design Standards
As mentioned in our recent Q&A with the team at NASA, the U.S. Web Design Standards team is sitting down with various agencies that are using the Standards. In this second post in our series, we met with the team at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and learned how they used the Standards to train, develop, and design their various websites and applications. Standards team: Why did you decide to use the U.S. Web Design Standards?
18F: Digital service delivery | NASA’s journey with the U.S. Web Design Standards
The U.S. Web Design Standards were created by the government, for the government. They’re currently implemented on hundreds of government sites, with an audience of more than 26 million monthly users. They’ve also been recommended by the Office of Management and Budget for all government agencies to ensure a consistent look and feel of their public-facing digital services.
Best practices for building an accessible website using the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards
When you work for the federal government, accessibility isn’t simply a nice-to-have — it’s the law. That’s why the Draft U.S. Web Design Standards set developers on the path of creating websites that anyone can use. The Draft Standards feature documentation that can help you keep your websites accessible, even after you make modifications. Every UI component of the Draft Standards is coded and designed to meet Section 508 standards.
Taking the pulse of the federal government's web presence
The U.S. federal government is launching a new project to monitor how it’s doing at best practices on the web. A sort of health monitor for the U.S. government’s websites, it’s called Pulse, and you can find it at pulse.cio.gov. Pulse is a lightweight dashboard that uses the official .gov domain list to measure two things: Analytics: Whether federal executive branch domains are participating in the Digital Analytics Program that powers analytics.usa.gov.
The Intersection of Art and Technology
Last month, I went to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City for the first time. I was there to see a special exhibit featuring the pop singer Bjӧrk, who is currently presenting a retrospective of her life’s work as a musician, artist and technologist. The retrospective spans back from her early beginnings as a childhood folk singer in Iceland all the way through to her most current album release.
Lightweight Django - O'Reilly Media
How can you take advantage of the Django framework to integrate complex client-side interactions and real-time features into your web applications? Through a series of rapid application development projects, this hands-on book shows experienced Django developers how to include REST APIs, WebSockets, and client-side MVC frameworks such as Backbone.js into new or existing projects.
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