On May 19, 2023, the Digital Benefits Network published a new, open dataset documenting authentication and identity proofing requirements across online SNAP, WIC, TANF, Medicaid, child care (CCAP) applications, and unemployment insurance applications.
A blog recap of a FormFest session on improving digital form accessibility, with a focus on accessible error handling and WCAG 2.1 compliance under Title II requirements.
On July 16, members of the Digital Identity Community of practice gathered to learn how peers are gathering beneficiary feedback on their experiences with accounts and proving their identity.
This session from FormFest 2024 featured the work in Austin, Texas on criminal justice forms, and the South Bend, Indiana Animal Resource Center’s efforts to redevelop their animal adoption forms.
As they transition to providing more services online, there are ways governments can get creative working around talent shortages and entrenched bureaucracies.
Building on our February 2022 report Benefit Eligibility Rules as Code: Reducing the Gap Between Policy and Service Delivery for the Safety Net, the Beeck Center’s Digital Benefits Network (DBN) recently held a convening to share progress and potential in digitizing benefits eligibility and to begin addressing how a national approach could be started.
This resource contains specific examples that highlight the advantages of designing reusable code components, software tools, or design formats. This guide also illustrates the possibilities for connecting new components to existing system infrastructure.
This profile on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Open Source Program Office, the first of its kind in the federal government, showcasing how it advances transparency, collaboration, and innovation across agencies through open source software.
This blog summarizes a FormFest session where the Center for Civic Design shared research on how screen reader users navigate voter registration forms and offered guidance for designing more accessible digital and PDF forms.
