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  • Disability Consumers Forum: What We Learned

    Found in Blog / Published 10 December 2012 / By Anna Pethig ,

    … target audiences. They see it as a way they can get their communications from us in one place—but we need to be posting really relevant and well-targeted information.

    Twitter—what’s that? Not the way these audiences want to interact with government.

    Plain English
    Plain English—wonderful! But we also need to provide pictorial or simplified versions, too, for people who have a learning or intellectual disability, low literacy, and for many in the Deaf community for whom English is a second lang…

  • About this content design guidance

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Content design guidance / About this content design guidance

    This guidance includes best-practice advice on how to write for government digital channels.

  • What is Better Rules?

    Found in Blog / Published 20 December 2019 / By Hamish Fraser ,

    The Better Rules concept offers a fresh approach for multidisciplinary teams when developing policy. This approach provides them with the tools to develop a coherent concept model and potential rule set for the policy topic they’re focusing on.

  • Te reo Māori

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Content design guidance / Inclusive language / Te reo Māori

    Ways to help show respect for and normalise the use of te reo Māori when using it in an English context in government content.

  • Accessibility for Microsoft Word documents

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Accessibility / Accessibility for Microsoft Word documents

    Understand the best practices that increase the accessibility of Word documents and help with the conversion of Word to PDF.

  • Lab+: Design sprint for SmartStart

    Found in Blog / Published 28 July 2017 / By Susan Diamond ,

    … from another room. That way we could see and hear everything but wouldn't make people uncomfortable. Overall, the feedback from was people was positive.

    Lessons and surprisesWe did have some unexpected responses to some of the prototype designs.

    Plain English. While we thought that we'd written plain, straightforward text for the prototype, we confused some of our testers. So we'll need to spend more time crafting the text to avoid any misunderstanding.
    Context is everything. S…

  • Why DPUP has a Transparency and Choice Guideline

    Found in Standards & guidance / Privacy, security and risk / Privacy / Data Protection and Use Policy (DPUP) / Read the DPUP Guidelines / Transparency and Choice Guideline / Why DPUP has a Transparency and Choice Guideline

    Help people understand why and how providing personal information can help them or people in similar circumstances, if providing some information is optional, and their rights to access or request changes.

  • NZ government logo markup

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Usability / NZ government logo markup

    Use this HTML markup with the NZ government logo to make it accessible.

  • Types of alternate formats

    Found in Standards & guidance / Content, design and UX / Accessibility / Alternate formats / Types of alternate formats

    An alternate format is web or print content that has been converted into a different format so that disabled people can access and use the information.

  • Content maintenance

    Found in Standards & guidance / Governance / Managing online channels / Web information and data lifecycle / Content maintenance

    Maintenance of content, websites or services provides opportunities to review past procedures against current expectations of good practice. Legacy processes for managing online information are unlikely to meet the needs of today’s users.

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