So great to see CivicActioners Kelly Smith and Dave Pickett on this episode of Talking Drupal! #FOSS Listen now: talkingdrupal.com/525

“The DITAP Refresh equips acquisition professionals, product managers, and CORs to meet the digital delivery challenges of the decade ahead.”
— Mary O’Toole, Digital Services Expert, Formerly USDS civicactions.com/services/dit...

In her new blog post, Kelly Smith shares how our designers balanced learning and collaboration to sharpen their skills and strengthen how we partner with engineers. medium.com/civicactions... #CivicActions #Drupal #Design #ProfessionalDevelopment #DigitalTransformation #FOSS

We're proud to support National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM), led by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy. This initiative educates about disability employment issues & celebrates workers with disabilities, visible & invisible. www.dol.gov/NDEAM

🌍 CivicActions is at #DrupalCon Vienna! 
Our own @ox.ca Mike Gifford is in town — meeting with the community, representing CivicActions, and leading a Birds of a Feather (BoF) on web #sustainability Proud to see important conversations on #FOSS, #DigitalCommons, and #a11y happening!

🐍 Celebrating Contributions to the Open Python Directory ✨ We’re excited to highlight two new additions to the Open Python Directory shared by our friends in the open source and public interest tech community: ✅ Template-Application-Flask
 ✅ Comet-API
 github.com/CivicActions...

We’re thrilled to share that our team made 200+ Drupal contributions in Q3 this year — our biggest quarter ever! With more than 1,100 contributions in the past 12 months, CivicActions one of the top Drupal contributors among US federal digital services vendors. #Drupal #FOSS

DITAP has been refreshed for the new acquisition era—modern, open, and future-ready. Learn more: medium.com/civicactions... #FOSS #DigitalGovernment

Meet our #NewHire Toks Oriola! Toks has recently joined the CivicActions team as a Senior Product Manager, where she will be supporting work with our client Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Welcome to the team, Toks!

🚀 CivicActioner @ox.ca Mike Gifford explains why web consolidation is the future of digital gov: lower costs, stronger security & better UX — all powered by open source. #FOSS Read his @federalnewsnetwork.com piece:
federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...

At CivicActions, every month is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Remember to do the following to stay secure online: 🚩Recognize and Report Phishing 🚩Update Your Software 🚩Use Strong Passwords 🚩Enable Multi-Factor Authentication www.cisa.gov/cybersecurit...

🎉 The CivicActions Partner Playbook is now live on the G2X Federal Resource Center: g2xchange.com/resource-cen... Helping small #GovCon businesses stay resilient & thrive. #SmallBusiness #GovTech

🚀 New from Orange Slices: CivicActions – Embracing Collaboration Through Open Source Resources to Better Serve Government We at CivicActions are advancing #OpenSource in #GovTech with our Open Python Directory + Open Requirements Library. Read 👉 orangeslices.ai/civicactions... #FOSS #Python

CivicActions is proud to contribute on a global scale, through CivicActioner @ox.ca, to the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport on its Open Source Ambition Ladder, a resource guiding Dutch government agencies on how and why to procure open source. #FOSS minvws.github.io/beleidsontwi...

ICYMI, here’s a throwback interview with Kristian Ducharme, Associate Director of Drupal Engineering at CivicActions. “The most rewarding part of my job is...transforming great ideas into actionable work.”
— Kristian Ducharme 🔗 medium.com/civicactions...

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Zoom Your Page to 200%. Often designs fail because it assumes a fixed font size. WCAG requires that pages can be zoomed up to 200% without the loss of functionality or content. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #a11y

Why contribute to gov open source with #Drupal? 🔹 Less lock-in 🔹 Lower costs 🔹 Better accessibility, security & trust Open source isn’t just good tech—it’s good governance. 🛠️ civicactions.com/case-studies/

🎙️ Talking Drupal Cafe #010: Featuring CivicActioner Steve Wirt In this conversation, Steve and John dive deep into Drupal module development, and the evolving role of accessibility and AI in web development. 🎧 Catch the full episode: talkingdrupal.com/cafe010

“Since my early days, Drupal has been a veritable Swiss army knife for web development...Just like how the Drupal platform and community has evolved, so have I. Drupal has given me the space to do that and I am grateful for that." - Daniel Mundra, AD of Drupal medium.com/civicactions...

✅ How to Qualify a Great Drupal Partner 🔹 Deep Drupal expertise 🔹 Active community contributions 🔹 Maintainer mindset 🔹 Accessibility & public sector experience 🔹 Secure, scalable DevOps 🔹 Human-centered, open by default www.drupal.org/civicactions

We’re excited to share the full release of the Drupal Alt Text Validation module, created by CivicActioner Steve Wirt! 🎉 This accessibility tool was built with great care to help content editors write better, more meaningful alt text for images. www.drupal.org/project/alt_...

CivicActioner Iris Ibekwe contributed AI Crawl Analysis to the new Open Python Directory, helping agencies simplify complex web content. medium.com/civicactions... #FOSS #Python #AI #OpenSource

🚀 CivicActions launched the Open Python Directory — a digital commons for sharing reusable #FOSS Python tools in the public sector. Explore & contribute:
github.com/CivicActions... #OpenSource #Python #GovTech

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Be careful when using Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA). As a best practice, if the semantics can be defined by HTML, then they should be. Remember, ARIA can make #a11y worse. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #aria

🎖️Exploring AI + Open Source in Government Through our partnership with Huntridge Labs in our joint venture CivicLabs, we’re working on more than just technical solutions—we’re supporting government teams in navigating change with transparency. civic-labs.ai

Open Source is critical public infrastructure — but much of it depends on too few maintainers without sustainable funding. In his recent post, Dries Buytaert makes a compelling case for why governments must move from consuming Open Source to sustaining it. #FOSS dri.es/funding-open...

We’re proud to share that @ox.ca from CivicActions will be presenting at the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe, happening August 25–27th in Amsterdam, Netherlands. #OSSummit events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-...

“FOSS is at the heart of modern government digital services and digital public goods. This short piece from Jordan Kasper is a great primer how the ecosystem works and why it matters for building tech that serves everyone.” – @pava.bsky.social jordankasper.com/an-overview-...

In 2025, several CivicActions teammates hit a huge milestone — 20 years contributing to Drupal.org 🎉 and one is nearing 22! 👏 Honoring Drupal community veterans: @ox.ca, @pava.bsky.social, @openprivacy.org, Owen Barton & Bob Schmitt. #Drupal #OpenSource #CivicTech #FOSS

✨ Last week at Drupal GovCon, we were proud to see Sam Lerner sharing ideas and connecting with the Drupal and GovTech community. Here is to more moments of connection, inspiration, and community building. 💜 #Drupal #FOSS #GovTech @drupalassociation.bsky.social

Version control is second nature for many developers, but are you getting the most out of it? In a recent post, Daniel Mundra offers practical strategies to take your Git skills to the next level with automation. medium.com/civicactions... #Git #Automation #FOSS

“Together, we can make these documents even more relevant and continue to improve how government serves its people.” Learn more about the Open Requirements Library and how #FOSS can allow us to Procure Smarter, Not Harder. orangeslices.ai/procure-smar...

🎖️Veteran-Led, Public-Focused: One of the strengths of our joint venture CivicLabs is the leadership brought by our partners at Huntridge Labs, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). More about the work: civic-labs.ai #SDVOSB #VeteranOwned #GovTech #PublicInterestTech #CivicLabs

We’re thrilled to celebrate three of our amazing team members who have recently earned their Acquia Certified Drupal Site Builder credentials! 🎉 Kelly Smith – Drupal 10 🎉 Suzanne Gray – Drupal 11 🎉 Dave Pickett – Drupal 11 #FOSS #Drupal #AcquiaCertified @drupalassociation.bsky.social

👉New in the Open Requirements Library CivicActioner @ox.ca Mike Gifford has added a new resource: the Open Source Procurement Checklist! This checklist helps procurement officers evaluate open source software in digital government acquisitions. #FOSS github.com/CivicActions...

Join CivicActioner Sam Lerner at Drupal GovCon on Thursday for his talk Elevating Government Search with Vertex AI and Drupal!
 Learn more: www.drupalgovcon.org #Drupal #FOSS #GovTech #Search #VertexAI #DrupalGovCon25 @drupal.bsky.social

Tomorrow: CivicActioner @ox.ca Mike Gifford will be speaking at Cheat Codes for Successful Procurement, a virtual event hosted by Apolitical. 🔗 apolitical.co/events/aug-2... #GovProcurement #PublicService #CivicTech #FOSS #CivicActions #OpenContracting #DigitalGovernment

We recently spoke with Jonathan Mostowski to reflect on the program’s evolution and its growing impact on federal procurement. Read on to hear how DITAP is preparing students to meet the moment. medium.com/civicactions...

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Focus on focus states. It is often difficult for keyboard-only users to know where they are on the page. Make focus states very obvious. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #a11y #keyboardOnly

We’re proud to share a great article by CivicActioner @ox.ca, published in The Drop Times:
 👉 www.thedroptimes.com/50678/drupal... #Drupal #OpenSource #Accessibility #CivicTech #FOSS #GovTech #CivicActions"

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Blend your testing methods. Use tests that can be automated with your continuous integration (CI), tests that can be leveraged by editors and tests to gather site wide errors. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #a11y #accessibility

✅ 27 Drupal contributions—and July isn’t even over. At CivicActions, we don’t just use Drupal—we help shape it. Our developers, designers, and accessibility experts contribute directly to the core ecosystem, sharing improvements that benefit everyone. www.drupal.org/civicactions

Open source is COTS—and gov should treat it that way.
Aaron Pava & @ox.ca Mike Gifford make the case on GovLoop for why #FOSS qualifies as commercial, off-the-shelf—and why it should be the default. www.govloop.com/community/bl... #FOSS #COTS #GovTech

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Test with Microsoft Edge's Immersive Reader mode. It's useful to see that your design holds when elements seen as extras are removed. Also, the speech-to-text feature is a great way to proof for better readability. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #a11y #accessibility

ICYMI: Mike Gifford @ox.ca, Open Standards & Practices Lead at CivicActions, joined Oliver Davies on his podcast to talk about web accessibility. Listen to the podcast: www.oliverdavies.uk/podcast/32-w... #WebAccessibility #CivicActions #A11y #InclusiveDesign #FOSS

Save the Date: CivicActioner Mike Gifford @ox.ca will be speaking at Cheat Codes for Successful Procurement, a virtual event hosted by Apolitical. 🔗 apolitical.co/events/aug-2... #GovProcurement #PublicService #CivicTech #FOSS #CivicActions #OpenContracting #DigitalGovernment"

Accessibility Tip of the Week: Test to produce errors! Errors need to be accessible, just like the rest of the page. This includes forms, 404 pages, and even page load notices. This information also is relevant to people with disabilities. tinyurl.com/a11yCA #a11y #accessibility

In his latest Medium post, Senior DevSecOps Engineer @Scott McGee shares how we’re using Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) to strengthen the security of government websites. medium.com/civicactions...

This July, we come together at CivicActions to celebrate Disability Pride Month! July marks the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. Below is the Disability Pride Flag. #DisabilityPrideMonth #a11y #Accessibility

We're excited to share a new addition to the Open Requirements Library: Section 508 Compliance for Website Maintenance and Enhancement. Check it out and let us know would you think! 🔗 github.com/CivicActions... #a11y #section508 #GovTech #procurement #accessibility #FOSS