Accessible data delivery on covid19.ca.gov
Aaron Hans
State of California
Office of Digital Innovation
Continuous iteration
Fundamentals
- V1 built and shipped in 4 days
- Perfect automated test scores
- Met design goals, responsive
- Works on IE11
- Easy to update
- Using WordPress headlessly
- Scalable via static site generation
Human Translations
Open source
Immediate traffic spikes
ongoing need
User driven design resulted in effective data viz
https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/national-dashboard-recommendations
Data visualizations compared poorly to the rest of the site
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Translations
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True accessibility
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Performance
Equity dashboard
Fully translated web components
ScreenReader users can interact with chart elements
Performance improvements
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Pre-generate small, shareable svgs
Thanks!
Aaron Hans
State of California
Office of Digital Innovation
@CaliforniaODI
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