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Welcome to the Wiki for the Web Experience Toolkit (WET).

Table of Contents What is the Web Experience Toolkit? Key resources Events Ongoing projects

What is the Web Experience Toolkit?

• Collaborative open source project led by the Government of Canada
• Award winning code library for building innovative websites that are:
  • Accessible, usable and interoperable
  • Mobile friendly
  • Multilingual
• Flexible and themeable templates and reusable components
• Open source software
  • Free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes (MIT license - Terms and conditions)
  • Developed openly by the community on GitHub

Key resources

• Benefits
• Working examples
• Working examples - v4.0
• Documentation
• Downloads
• Main project
• Terms and conditions
• Contributor guidelines
• Versioning
• Version history
• Roadmap
• Communications material

Events

Events related to WET are listed here with links to more information where available.

• Code sprint, 22 January 2014.
• WET Codefest 2.0 (August 8-9, 2013)
• Pre-Codefest Events
• Exploring Canada's Web Experience Toolkit - webinar with Paul Jackson, Web Standards Office: http://www.howto.gov/training/classes/canada-web-experience-toolkit/ (April 17, 2013) - FREE
• Toronto Accessibility & Inclusive Design User Group: About the Web Experience Toolkit (WET): (April 16, 2013; Video (in English Only))
• La Boîte à outils de l’expérience Web : L’approche du Gouvernement du Canada en matière d’accessibilité et de facilité d’emploi et d’interopérabilité des sites Web (23 novembre, 2012; PDF slides (in French only))
• WET Community Group Strategy & Governance Meeting (November 14, 2012)
• GTEC panel discussion (Webcast) (November 7, 2:00 - 3:00) Putting Canadians First Through Open Collaborative Web Development https://meet53548790.adobeconnect.com/gteccollaborative1400
• WET Community Group (October 18, 2012) - a session to start and organize a WET community
• WET Discovery Day (August 17, 2012) - a session for developers who are new to WET
• COE Usability Discovery Day (July 19, 2012) - a session on User-Centred Design and other Usability concepts
• WxT CodeFest (July 10, 2012) - a festival to code, contribute and learn about WET

Ongoing projects

• Brainstorm new WxT components Add an idea or a request.
• Job Descriptions What are the skills and roles needed to produce usable, accessible websites? Add a sample public sector job description or help write one.
• Testing Repository of on-going and planned testing efforts.
• HTML data for basic Web page template
  • Draft HTML pilots guide
• Component reviews