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• Designing accessible online services: a heuristic approach for designers (By DSF)

  Posted on 30 May 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  

  Explore how the accessibility heuristics table and scoring system work, how to use heuristic evaluation, and how designers can apply this in practice.

• 13 overlooked details in Front-end Development (That make a big difference) (By DSF)

  Posted on 28 May 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  

  The most overlooked, yet essential, front-end details, and how they are covered by our Unified Design System

• Data-driven rendering: A universal UI language

  Posted on 6 May 2025 • Tagged with dev design accessibility

  

  Explore how data-driven rendering simplifies UI development by generating interfaces from structured data, reducing the need for extensive manual coding.

• govcy-frontend-prototype: A dynamic prototype tool

  Posted on 4 March 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf design

  

  A tool that builds functional prototypes for gov.cy services, using data instead of code.

• Managing multi repository products with GitHub projects

  Posted on 20 February 2025 • Tagged with dev productivity

  

  How to efficiently manage a multi-repository product using GitHub Projects.

• Creating a reliable software release policy

  Posted on 9 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  

  A look at the key aspects of a release policy and a practical checklist for seamless, high-quality software releases.

• Why release versioning matters: A Guide to SemVer and automated publishing

  Posted on 3 February 2025 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  

  A look on why versioning matters, how Semantic Versioning (SemVer) works and how to implement an automated versioning workflow for products intended to be used by external teams and developers

• Building a Dynamic HTML Renderer with Nunjucks and JSON Templates

  Posted on 24 January 2025 • Tagged with dev accessibility dsf ci-cd

  

  An overview on how a dynamic HTML renderer (govcy-frontend-renderer) works

• Enhancing the Unified Design System with automated visual testing (by DSF)

  Posted on 8 January 2025 • Tagged with dsf design dev ci-cd

  

  How DSF uses Percy to perform automatic visual regression testing, to improve the quality of the Unified Design System and provide a more reliable user experience

• Automating accessibility: Site-wide testing and reporting guide

  Posted on 23 December 2024 • Tagged with dev accessibility eleventy ci-cd

  

  Enhance your website's accessibility with automated testing and reporting. This guide walks you through the process of setting up and running accessibility checks across your site.