USWDS
Guild (Jeff)
Guild (Jeff)
USWDS Guild announcements are posted to this location
What is the teams channel?
This is the Treasury-funded Design System team that extends USWDS in Angular
Who is TEDS
Use this component to allow users to select one or more options in a list
What is a checkbox?
This is the name of the government department that created USWDS (it was dismantled in early 2025)
What is 18f?
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?
This is the frequency 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 everyone, 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 USWDS Guild 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
"Work in the open" is a practical action of this principal
What is "Earn Trust"?
Webaim contrast checker, WAVE, Google Lighthouse, Axe Deque, ANDI, etc.
What are tools to help check for accessibility?
These are the leaders' of the USWDS Guild names
Who are Jeff (Scherr), Hallie (Fields), 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 draws attention to new or categorized content elements... avoid user confusion with buttons!
What is a tag
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 2.1 guidelines?
"To empower engineers and designers to increase efficiency, knowledge, and quality of implementing USWDS within Angular" is this important declaration of purpose
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 component comes in borderless, bordered, or multiselectable variations
What is an accordion?
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 WCAG2.1 Level AA standards, which means our content is accessible to most people in most circumstances
What is USWDS' commitment to component accessibility?