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• 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.

• gov.cy Design System update (V.3.0.0) – Unified Design System

  Posted on 7 August 2024 • Tagged with dsf design accessibility

  

  A post, about the release from Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus of version 3.0.0 of the gov.cy design system. This is a total redesign of the design system, with branding and styling changes, updated and new components, to accommodate both services and websites.

• Improving Accessibility: Lessons from making design elements screen reader-friendly (by DSF)

  Posted on 23 January 2024 • Tagged with dsf design accessibility

  

  A post from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how DSF tried to evolve the screen reader capabilities of their components.

• How to use the Figma community library file to design digital services (by DSF)

  Posted on 24 August 2023 • Tagged with dsf design figma

  

  A short post from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to use their Figma community library file to design digital services as per our Design System.

• Writing a good README file

  Posted on 6 May 2023 • Tagged with dev

  

  Documentation is a key for any coding project and the README file is a big part of it. In this article you can find some best practices on how to write a good README file.

• How to create new design elements using the utility classes (by DSF)

  Posted on 16 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a brand new HTML design element using the gov.cy utility classes.

• How to create a page using the gov.cy design system (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf design dev

  

  A step-by-step guide for developers, from the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus, on how to create a simple question page using DSF's reusable components.

• Designing the Design System (by DSF)

  Posted on 15 February 2023 • Tagged with dsf accessibility design dev

  

  The way the Digital Services Factory (DSF) Cyprus creates consistent, clean, accessible and intuitive user experience throughout the services.

• GitLab CI/CD and React Tests

  Posted on 27 September 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  

  An example of Continuous Integration, this time with unit testing react components.

• GitLab CI/CD and GitLab Pages

  Posted on 27 August 2019 • Tagged with dev ci-cd

  

  In this post I will try and explain how to deploy a simple javascript application on GitLab pages, using Continuous Deployment with a live working example.