Digital Web Services Network: Past Events

October 20, 2022 DWSN Forum
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Here are collected and shared QAs from the DWSN forum meeting chat.

What is the cost to have CDT assess our public website?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: Nothing, just time.

How can teams be empowered to do this sort of Stabilization assessment as part of their own QA process?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: The Stabilization team has developed a Stabilization Playbook that can be deployed at the request of any department and agency to run their own assessment. In addition, the Stabilization team is available for consultation to provide guidance.

Is there a web page that talks about the accessibility certification necessary for 2023?

DWSN member:

Here is the updated toolkit with all the info you would need:

CDT will be posting the latest related to certification here:

Does Google Analytics 4 work with SharePoint (internal) sites or other internal sites?

DWSN member: CDT does have analytics set up for some agency intranets. Since we don’t manage the sites, I’m not sure if they are on SharePoint or not. If you’re able to add the JavaScript the entire site and you have a measurement ID specific to the intranet, it should collect data.

If CDT manages our GA4, is that only for our primary site, or can we add additional channels for other department sites we maintain?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: CDT can manage accounts for additional subsites as well if they are all ca.gov/state run sites. 

We use a contractor developed template for our WordPress public site via an externally hosted public website. Can we install the template on an externally hosted site or are we on our own?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: The theme is publicly available for download. 

The latest version can be found at the CDT GitHub repository. It does require that the paid for theme called Divi be installed alongside it.

Can we have your team assist with our GA4 improvements on our public website?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: Please email our team at analytics@state.ca.gov and we will be more than happy to assist in any way we can.

Is there an SSO WordPress plugin that's vetted by CDT?

DWSN Coordinator/presenter: CDT is not leveraging an SSO WordPress plugin at this time or had the opportunity to vet one.