NEW: What to Expect From #ProPublica in a Second #Trump Administration
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Our job is to give readers an independent, verifiable account of what’s happening, even if the #president is calling us enemies of the people or bloodsuckers.

#News #Journalism #DonaldTrump #Election #Election2024 #Politics #Government
propublica.org/article/second-…

What We’ll Be Covering in a Second Trump Administration

We’ll be devoting a significant part of our staff to detailing what are expected to be dramatic changes in the role of the federal government in the lives of Americans.

^ProPublica

#Trump Claims “Illegal Alien” #Voting Is Rampant. His Own Party Disagrees.
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In a private video training session, a top #Pennsylvania #Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.

#News #Election2024 #DonaldTrump #RNC #GOP #Video #Politics #Government #Immigration

propublica.org/article/trump-p…

RNC Video Contradicts Trump’s “Illegal Aliens” Voting Claims

In a private video training session, a top Pennsylvania Republican National Committee official reassured a new poll watcher that undocumented people could not possibly vote in the state.

^ProPublica

A #Georgia #Election Official’s Months-Long Push to Make It Easier to Challenge the 2024 Results
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Julie Adams quickly ascended from a little-known #conservative activist to a surprise appointee on the Fulton County board of elections.

She has used her new perch to carry out the efforts of players seeking to tilt the election in Trump’s favor.

#News #Politics #Election2024 #Atlanta #Voting #Election #Government #Trump

propublica.org/article/julie-a…

Julie Adams’ Rise From Conservative Activist to Georgia Election Official

Julie Adams quickly ascended from a little-known conservative activist to a surprise appointee on the Fulton County board of elections. She has used her new perch to carry out the efforts of players seeking to tilt the 2024 election in Trump’s favor.

^ProPublica

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to #Mexico Even as #Trump Pushes “America First”
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On the campaign trail, #DonaldTrump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

#News #TrumpMedia #Trump #Government #Business #Tariffs #Politics #Election #ELection2024 #TruthSocial

propublica.org/article/donald-…

Trump Media Outsourced Jobs to Mexico Despite Trump’s “America First” Push

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump threatened businesses that send jobs south of the border, while his own company that runs the Truth Social platform outsourced coding jobs to workers in Mexico, outraging some staff members.

^ProPublica

I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.

"PDFs are where services go to die."

No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.

To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!

deptcivicthings.substack.com/p…

#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech

The elephant in the new accessibility law: PDFs

If your government agency is typical, you have a lot of PDFs. Probably thousands. They are probably not accessible.

^{Rebecca Woodbury (Department of Civic Things newsletter)}

New #Biden Administration Rules Aim to Hold Insurers Accountable for #MentalHealth Care Coverage
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The regulations will force health insurance plans to collect and report more data on how they limit and deny mental health claims. ProPublica’s reporting has found that insurers regularly shortchange patients seeking treatment.

#News #Health #Insurance #Regulation #Government #Therapy

propublica.org/article/biden-a…

Exec at #Trump Media Jumped the Line for U.S. Visa After Company Lobbied #GOP Lawmaker
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A former aide to Rep. Don Bacon, a #Nebraska #Republican, said she intervened on the company’s behalf even though she thought it was inappropriate.

“It was specifically the congressman that suggested I needed to deal with it.”

#News #Immigration #Politics #Government #Business #TrumpMedia

propublica.org/article/trump-m…

Enjoyed presenting on Day 1 of Drupal GovCon -- Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices

TLDR: Drupal is doing better than average, based on most CrUX Core Web Vital evaluations, but we still need to do better for CX.

As a community we can work to improve these scores and improve the digital experience of .gov sites.

docs.google.com/presentation/d…

#DrupalGovCon #GovCon #DC #DigitalTech #Data #GoogleLighthouse #accessibiity #Performance #CX #government #Drupal

Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices

Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Drupal GovCon, August 13, Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Digital.gov’s Site Scanning Program is tracking 26,000 publicly available federal .gov websites.

^{Google Docs}

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.

But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.

#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans

propublica.org/article/project…

Paul Dans, the Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.

^ProPublica

I am always happy see the release of the WebAIM Million and 2024 is just out.

webaim.org/projects/million/

The figure most folks want to see is the percentage of home pages that had detected WCAG 2 failures. it is marginally better than 2023 but you will have to read the report.

It is also worth noting that sub domains have been excluded from the scan. The WebAIM team decided the long-term results would be better.

I understand that this has a big impact on #government and #education sites.

I am excited to be presenting an accessibility workshop for #InnovateUS. I will be focusing on taking a role-based approach for accessibility. Subject-matter experts (SME) have their role, but too often responsibilities in government are hardened and accessibility becomes someone else's responsibility. Taking a role-based approach can fix barriers earlier in the project's lifecycle.

innovate-us.org/creating-a-cul…

#accessibility #ARRM #authors #frontend #visualdesign #government #DigitalGovernment

More details about the end of #IPv4 in state services: On 18th of December 2013 Czech #government decided that every service provided by Czech state has to be available on #IPv6 and be protected by #DNSSEC by 30th of June 2015. Yesterday a followed up action has been agreed on. On 6th of June 2032, IPv4 will be disabled on all services offered by Czech republic and they will be only available on IPv6 from that day on. Apart from that, every June starting from 2025, Czech government will get a report on how are the preparations.

Overall seems like a bold move, but I totally support it! IT sends a message, that #IPv4 is over and everybody should move to #IPv6 already. And even government - the definition of conservative and bureaucratic institution - gets it. Then why shouldn't you embrace it 😉

More information in Czech:
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/kratke-…
blog.nic.cz/2024/01/18/odvazny…

Section508.gov - Fiscal Year 23 Government-wide Section 508 Assessment

section508.gov/manage/section-…

#government #Section508 #gov #DigitalGov #USA #WCAG #A11y

Anyone know what happened with the Australian Government's Notify instance notify.gov.au/

#Government #Australia #OpenSource

The Department of Justice should resume reporting on federal compliance with
Section 508 requirements. Section 508 requires DOJ to report on the federal #government’s
compliance with #Section508 every two years. However, DOJ has not issued a report since
2012. In response to bipartisan Aging Committee oversight, #DOJ recently committed to
issuing its first report in a decade.

aging.senate.gov/imo/media/doc…

I like this potential change for US federal government contractors, would like to see this more broadly implemented - govexec.com/management/2022/11… - we need to see that our incentives line up with #ClimateAction

#procurement #government

Here’s What the Contracting Community Thinks of the New Proposed Rule on Climate Reporting  

The proposed rule is part of the Biden administration’s larger environmental agenda, but it comes with costs for contractors. 

^{Courtney Bublé (Government Executive)}

Interesting to see government challenges trying to get involved in a community that they don't understand. #Discord & #Mastodon are obviously very different, but wondering what "Gotchas" there might be for #government sites exploring alternative #SocialMedia accounts.

As people flock from #Twitter, there will be new things watch for.

amp.theguardian.com/media/2022…