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[Content styleguide] Content doesn’t align with style guidance in VA.gov content style guide. (05.08.1) #55853

Open shiragoodman opened 1 year ago

shiragoodman commented 1 year ago

General Information

VFS team name

VA Online Scheduling (VAOS)

VFS product name

VA Online Scheduling

VFS feature name

Appointment List

Point of Contact/Reviewers

Cheryl Evans - @CherylEvans - Content

*For more information on how to interpret this ticket, please refer to the Anatomy of a Staging Review issue ticket guidance on Platform Website.


Platform Issue

Content doesn’t align with style guidance in VA.gov content style guide.

Issue Details

Home > Health Care > Schedule and Manage health appointments > Your appointments > Days of the week are abbreviated unnecessarily. Abbreviated days of the week should have a period at the end of the abbreviation > Abbreviate days and months when space is very limited, such as in callout boxes, alerts, or promo components, etc. Mon., Tue., Wed., Thu., Fri., Sat., Sun.

Link, screenshot or steps to recreate

https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/blob/master/platform/working-with-vsp/vsp-collaboration-cycle/staging-review-images/42025_Cheryl_1_%202023-03-27%20at%2012.28.55%20PM.png https://github.com/department-of-veterans-affairs/va.gov-team/tree/master/platform/working-with-vsp/vsp-collaboration-cycle/staging-review-images

VA.gov Experience Standard

Category Number 05, Issue Number 08

Other References

WCAG SC 3.2.4 AA

Platform Recommendation

I recommend not using abbreviations unless there is a space constraint. If abbreviations must be used, follow the guidelines for correct usage > https://design.va.gov/content-style-guide/dates-and-numbers


VFS Guidance

ldelacosta commented 1 year ago

@shiragoodman - we will review this post launch of the Appointment List Redesign feature. We have created a ticket for our team. cc: @JRRoof

shiragoodman commented 1 year ago

thanks @ldelacosta . Per our guidance above, we request that this ticket remain open until the issue is resolved. Thanks for your understanding.