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The California State Template is an HTML template and sample website offered by the California Department of Technology to various other agencies and departments within the State of California. The template provides California Government entities with guidelines for how their websites should be created and developed, and allows for consistent branding and web standards for State websites. Please visit webtools.ca.gov for more information.
https://template.webstandards.ca.gov/
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Template use and contrast issue #49

Closed Student-of-the-Web closed 5 years ago

Student-of-the-Web commented 5 years ago

We really need a path for updates to the template. Not a replacement, requiring rebuilding all of our content. If anyone has the simple update process, or some steps, please let me know. Shawn.Flanagan@waterboards.ca.gov

Also we have a contrast ADA issue in the template. I am using "Colour Contrast Analyser" and the foreground shows #9FC7DA, and the background shows #FFFFFF, these levels of contrast fail all levels of WCAG 2.1, which is the level we at the State are required to meet. First question is, why do we use levels we know are not ADA compliant? Second question is, if we want all people to be able to equally perceive our content, then give out examples and templates that we know are not meeting required levels, are we not leading State staff down the wrong path; and wasting large amounts of money and time making each department figure out the issue, while dealing with lawsuit's and giving out bad code?

kkoryaka commented 5 years ago

Hello, we have released State Template version 5.0.6 and beta v5.5.3 that have been specifically tested for ADA compliance. Here are the demo sites http://template.webstandards.ca.gov/, http://beta.template.webstandards.ca.gov/ using those State template versions. The easiest strategy for updating your website to the latest State Template version is using our CDN (http://template.webstandards.ca.gov/cdn.html).

Student-of-the-Web commented 5 years ago

kkoryaka I think the CDN idea is good, if there is a test CDN we can be linked to, that goes live a short time before the real CDN gets updated, so we could fix any issues we see in the new template. For example, our version of 5.0.2 uses the carousel, and in version 5.0.6 the carousel only shows images if you add the class owl-carousel. It is changes like this and others I have not yet found that make it impossible to use the CDN without a test pre-release CDN for my pages. If you have a better idea please let me know. Thanks, Shawn.Flanagan@waterboards.ca.gov

artuoma commented 5 years ago

Each release will has its own CDN link so you can always keep the version you are on and reference the new CDN version link in your TEST. Does that make sense?