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This panel will discuss the pros and cons of using Drupal static sites, and the tools you can use to get started. VA.gov has been running one of the largest public Drupal static sites. We will discuss why they chose to go that route and what their plans are for the future.

Lullabot helped Georgia.gov develop a new landing page design tool that gave state agencies the power to customize their home pages, landing pages, and programs without breaking the mobile-friendly responsive design. Even with this flexibility, the structured content model made it possible to keep critical information up-to-date across websites and automatically expose rich metadata for search engines.

This talk explores the background, challenges, issues, and future of Drupal within the Australian government.

Morpht - Convivial CMS: Murray Woodman, from Morpht, will showcase Convivial CMS, a personalisation focused Drupal distribution. Convivial CMS ships with many personalisation and editor friendly features to make Drupal a first class citizen in the digital ecosystem.

Presented by Salsa Digital.

AAA compliance is the ultimate achievement, but is rarely ever actually necessary. Hear our lessons learned from our latest AAA project.

Why a mutual basic understanding of accessibility is vital to project success, and how you can have fun with it with your clients.

Over the past four years most jurisdictions across Australian government at federal and state levels have rapidly adopted Drupal as their chosen platform to host their public websites. Learn how the open source platform has been helping solve the technical and non-technical challenges common at all levels of government.

Drupal powers the WA.gov.au platform. It has proven its worth in both setting whole-of-government standards in branding, usability, accessibility as well as reducing agency costs across the sector. It is the platform the WA Government has used to communicate with Western Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic as it has the flexibility, agility, and scalability to meet the ever-changing requirements of the state's response to the virus.

We often hear that we should make the sites we build and maintain accessible and that there are tools to help us achieve our goals. But what do these tools do and how much do they help before we have to intervene and do more manual work?