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Digital platform prototypes and public only documentation for user-centered and effective transition into civilian life.
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Sprint 1 - Preparation for headerless footerless prototypes and reorganization for multiple sprints #5

Closed kakcura closed 3 years ago

kakcura commented 3 years ago

I initially developed an uncommitted index page with a Canada.ca Header and Footer and replaced the Canada wordmark and related graphics with our custom "C4C Fellows at CAF TG" and "Code for Canada" icons with the following disclaimer;

Even though some links goes to Canada.ca, the Canada wordmark and related graphics has been appropriately replaced to respect the trademark law and copyright law associated with them.

Based on this implementation, we would be satisfying the License requirements for Wet-Boew which is released as MIT license with the following additional statement;

Web Experience Toolkit (WET) - Terms and Conditions of Use

Unless otherwise noted, computer program source code of the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) is covered under Crown Copyright, Government of Canada, and is distributed under the MIT License.

The Canada wordmark and related graphics associated with this distribution are protected under trademark law and copyright law. No permission is granted to use them outside the parameters of the Government of Canada's corporate identity program. For more information, see https://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/fip-pcim/index-eng.asp

Copyright title to all 3rd party software distributed with the Web Experience Toolkit (WET) is held by the respective copyright holders as noted in those files. Users are asked to read the 3rd Party Licenses referenced with those assets.

However, as the team we had some concerns regarding Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)'s following statements at their Canada.ca guideline;

Out-of-scope situations The Canada.ca global header and footer design may not be applied or replicated in the following situations:

  • internal-facing websites or digital services
  • Government of Canada institutions that are not subject to the Directive on the Management of Communications
  • enterprises and organizations that are not part of the Government of Canada

Adapting the Web Experience Toolkit for out-of-scope situations If your website or service is out of scope for the Canada.ca design system, but you wish to use the Web Experience Toolkit, you must make the following minimum modifications.

Global header

  • Change the contents of the global navigation menu so that they are clearly different from the menu labels used on Canada.ca
  • Change the main colour used in the global navigation menu so that it is clearly contrasted from the main colour used in the global Canada.ca header

Global footer

  • Change the links in the global footer so that they are clearly different from the links used in the footer navigation menu on Canada.ca
  • Change the background colour used in the global footer so that it is clearly contrasted from the background colour used in the footer navigation menu on Canada.ca

These modifications help users distinguish between different sites, and they ensure that the overall Canada.ca design remains unique.

I believe that we were already satisfying the "These modifications help users distinguish between different sites, and they ensure that the overall Canada.ca design remains unique." target since we replaced the Canada wordmark and related graphics. However the minimum requirements TBS listed requires more changes and I think statements like "colour clearly contrasted from the colour used in the global Canada.ca" can be ambiguous. Also changing the coloring of the header and footer too much would not be in our interest since we wanna do our design based on how it would look in the public production webpage which has to use the Canada.ca header/footers. For this reason, I decided to just implement the prototypes without the header and footer for now since they are not elements that we are designing.

Meanwhile, we can check with TBS and if they give us the green light to use the Canada.ca header/footers at least with the same colors, we can integrate them to our prototypes to give user's more realistic UX experience.

kakcura commented 3 years ago

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)'s Canada.ca guideline that I mentioned at my previous comment can be found at the following url; https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services/government-communications/canada-content-information-architecture-specification/usage-canadaca-design.html