USWDS
Guild (Jeff)
Guild (Jeff)
USWDS Guild announcements are posted to this location
What is the teams channel?
The Treasury-funded Design System team that extends USWDS in Angular
Who is TEDS
Use this component to display the steps or stages of important instructions
What is a process list?
The first principle listed in the USWDS site says to start with these
What are real user needs
A federal law that requires federal agencies to make information and communication technology accessible to people with disabilities
What is section 508 of the rehabilitation act?
The occurrence of USWDS Guild meetings
What is once a month?
The term design system was in part popularized by Brad Frost, who wrote this 2016 book
What is Atomic Design
This is the number of columns in the layout grid
What is 12
One USWDS principle says to embrace this, as it affects everybody, and legal requirements are only a starting point...
What is Accessibility
Going through a site using assistive technology, a keyboard, and zooming to see if the digital content is accessible
What is manual accessibility testing?
Key information and resources are stored on this site
What is the USWDS Guild Confluence site?
A free and open-source design system and library created by IBM, which implements the IBM Design Language
What is Carbon Design System
This component allows for filtering a list of options by user-typed strings
What is a Combo box
The USWDS principles were created to support this bipartisan act, which was signed into law in 2018
What is the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA)
Webaim contrast checker, WAVE, Google Lighthouse, Axe Deque, ANDI, etc.
What are tools to help check for accessibility?
The leaders' of the USWDS Guild names
Who is Jeff (Scherr), Elicia (Caruthers), and Ben (Napper)?
A design system’s visual design is based on consistent palettes of typography, spacing units, color, and other discrete elements of style we call this...
What are design tokens
This component should appear as result of user action and should not be a surprise
What is a modal
Promoting this principle will minimize disruption, and provide a consistent experience throughout services; over time; and across agencies, platforms, and devices
What is Continuity
Making sure digital content is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust
What is WCAG 2.0 guidelines?
To empower engineers and designers to increase efficiency, knowledge, and quality of implementing USWDS within Angular
what is the mission statement?
These design system parts are simple HTML classes typically scoped to a single CSS property, like border-style or background-color
What are utilities
This should be self-contained and modular
What is a card
This final one-word principle contains practical actions such as "Involve the team in research", "publish metrics" and "Use direct observation"
What is Listen
We meet Level AA standards, which means our content is accessible to most people in most circumstances
What is USWDS' commitment to component accessibility?