Hit tab and scroll through the page:
* Buttons overview - Australian Government Design System || https://designsystem.gov.au/components/buttons/
And then compare it to this page:
* Buttons | United States Web Design System || https://v2.designsystem.digital.gov/components/buttons/
A lot of elements don't do a great job with lining up the focus states, they seem just sort of bolted on.
Here are a few issues I saw: https://imgur.com/a/t0iwmWi
But seriously, I can only think of a handful of official things that use the "official" colours, lots of sports teams but not really used by the government.
Edit: Parent originally mentioned that the website doesn't use the "Official Australian Colours".
I removed that part of the comment
As an American living in Sydney, and working for an agency, I feel like accessibility is behind the US. This set of tools should help, but also the use of Lighthouse by QA teams is key.
With Lighthouse, any score below 90 on any metric means our work fails QA —- it’s in our contracts to exceed 90. As a result, our clients rave about how easy it was to pass accessibility and security audits. Only secret is Lighthouse, and other automated checks, as part of the build process.
Making everything work nicely in our Single Page Apps is a nightmare.
If you know it's a target when you are in architecture, much easier to design it in a way that will pass the tests.
Not saying that it's always perfect, but generally speaking having tests is better than not. Just key to have the tests early and often, so you can fix issues before they get baked in throughout a complex system.
Cheers!
https://github.com/govau/design-system-site/pull/394
We have a lot of work to do for PWA's and performance. We have some issues open in the backlog however they will require some architectural changes and require a bit more time.