Brand: Government of Canada
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The AODA audit a federal vendor actually asks for: Why most WordPress sites fail it
AODA-compliance audits for federal-vendor contracts are different from generic accessibility scans. Here is what a procurement-grade audit covers, who signs off, and where most WordPress sites fall short.
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WordPress on a government discovery call: Eight questions a senior buyer should ask
Senior procurement buyers come to WordPress discovery calls with a checklist. Here are the eight questions worth asking — and what a senior consultant’s answers should sound like.
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The 20-minute discovery call: What I ask, why I ask it, and what a good answer sounds like
The questions Christopher asks on a 20-minute WordPress discovery call, why he asks them, and what a procurement-quality answer sounds like for each one.
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Pedigree of Oat Lines (POOL) — Tag-Driven Research Database for AAFC, 2008
POOL — Pedigree of Oat Lines, 2008. Tag-driven research database for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Central Experimental Farm, built so oat-genetics researchers could find what colleagues elsewhere had observed about the same problem.
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Human Resource Information System Canada (HRIS-SIRH) — federal HR platform rebuild, 2004
Federal bilingual HR policy hub on Rodonic Advantage — the Classic ASP + SQL Server multi-tenant CMS my then-partner David McGregor and I built at Rodonic Corporation. Used a publish-to-static-HTML pattern that wouldn’t have a standard name (static site generation) for another decade.
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Natural Resources Canada knowledge asset inventory — taxonomy across a federal department, 2004
Knowledge Asset Inventory for Natural Resources Canada, 2004 — the searchable layer inside a federal ministerial Brief In Notes system. PHP front-end on IIS, FileMaker Pro database, custom-built bridge between them, inside a federal security envelope.
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Canadian Technology Human Resources Board — Bilingual Newsletter Platform, 2003
Bilingual landing-page and newsletter platform for the Canadian Technology Human Resources Board, 2003 — PHP + MySQL front end with custom spam-heuristics and Excel handoff to the internal newsletter tool.
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Aboriginal Human Resources Development Canada — federal HR communications platform, 2003
Newsletter publication and distribution system for Aboriginal Human Resources Development Canada (AHRDC), 2003. Classic ASP + Microsoft Access + direct SMTP — federal-grade self-serve publishing for civil servants, predating the hosted email-marketing era.
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Natural Resources Canada Conference Plan — end-to-end internal workflow, 2003
Internal end-to-end conference-attendance workflow for Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), built in 2003 under the federal Government Online initiative. PHP web layer on a FileMaker Pro backend, connected through a custom PHP-to-FileMaker bridge, with one record carrying an employee from request through manager approval through registration through their auto-generated bilingual badge.