Tag: Government

We recognize, of course, that “Always accessible” is not a novel approach. Here in California accessibility is a guiding principle in the state’s digital strategy. And our work is just one part of the state’s larger commitment to ensuring that information and services are accessible.

What is novel is how our team is broadening the definition of accessibility for state government to include performance as a core component. Performance as accessibility.

Our goal is to make COVID19.CA.gov fast and easy to use on any kind of hardware or with any level of bandwidth. 

For government, GOV.UK is often the only place a user can get information. If the website were to perform badly, we become a single point of failure.

Great rundown of why performance is so important to GOV.UK and how the context of their visitors can vary dramatically, even within the same city.