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>Their websites might not look the part, but they excel.... accessibility....

I remember they had a design document ( Something similar to [1] [2], but not the exact one I was looking for ) where they list accessibility as their number one priority and a very long list of accessibility requirement. Simply because Government Web Site needs to be accessible by everyone. That means there are certain fancy things and colour scheme they cant do.

I wonder if the stack for Gov.UK are the same as their Petition Site [3] or was it based on something else? They have an Open Source Github account [4] for Government Digital Service which list everything they have open sourced.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/government-design-principles

[2] https://design-system.service.gov.uk

[3] https://petition.parliament.uk

[4] https://github.com/alphagov

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If there was any remaining doubt about the UK Gov's design chops, check out their Github projects. Just to highlight one... they've published one of the most accessible and intuitive reverse-engineering tools I've ever used: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

There's also huge amounts of UK Govt infrastructure code available online and open source. For all kinds of things, from all departments.

You could pretty much spin up the code needed to run the boring bits of a country out of open-source code. How about the application for booking secure prisoner moves? [0] Or some nice open source security guidance? [1]

And that's just one department, most others are similar!

[0] https://github.com/ministryofjustice [1] https://github.com/ministryofjustice/security-guidance

Or run your own version of government tax system https://github.com/hmrc

https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk/

and

https://www.payments.service.gov.uk/

are both open source:

https://github.com/alphagov?q=pay&type=&language=

https://github.com/alphagov/notifications-api

Slightly different group of people working on GCHqQ's recruiting tools and gov.uk, I would imagine.

How have I never seen this before? This is amazing! I've been looking for something like this for ages.

It's worth noting that GCHQ and GDS (Government digital Service, responsible for gov.uk sites) are different.

We have some form of this in Norway too where companies can be fined for having inaccessible web pages. We will also adopt the EU wide Web Accessibility Directive (WAD).

The department overseeing this has guide lines [1] and tests for web pages/apps/forms etc [2]

[1] https://www.uutilsynet.no/wcag-standarden/wcag-sortert-etter...

[2] https://www.uutilsynet.no/regelverk/testprosedyrar-nettstade...

https://www.gov.uk/service-manual

The service manual is an awesome piece of work.

May be if we are in UK, Govt. jobs are good you mean?

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