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A resource to help federal employees write in plain language and comply with the Plain Writing Act of 2010

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Added patched identifier component for compliance. **Before** **After**

Multiple edits across different agencies based on intern research in spreadsheet and recent Dept of State request

Plain Language is currrently somewhere on **USWDS** `1.3.1` to `1.4.3`. Updating from **USWDS** 1 to 3 will require substantial refactoring if we want to keep the site up to date....

Basscss is deprecated and the github repo is archived. We should remove this dependency. Let's use USWDS tokens, utilities, and functions instead. See `main.scss` https://github.com/GSA/plainlanguage.gov/blob/030125b923dbe8bf051e4cb3c9f091bd8cd71394/assets/css/main.scss#L10-L13 For example, handling margins https://github.com/basscss/basscss-sass/blob/master/scss/_responsive-margin.scss...

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## Summarize the issue in one sentence CirlcleCI is showing a deprecated docker image warning. ![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3385219/167649264-efc54576-2b45-41d7-88c8-39c543124a4c.png) ## Tell us more about how we can help We should update this image...

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## Summarize the issue in one sentence The coronavirus info box at the top of every page could be improved to use plain language. ## Tell us more about how...

## Summarize the issue in one sentence I tried to copy the repo, add my own content and deploy it on my github pages. It ran locally fine but in...

Currently, the site uses the [uswds-jekyll theme](https://github.com/18F/uswds-jekyll#versioning) v1.4.1 as seen in the [Gemfile](https://github.com/GSA/plainlanguage.gov/blob/master/Gemfile). That theme was recently updated and now uses the latest release of USWDS. Action: * update to...

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We'd like to create a new Google Group, for the social team media at `[email protected]`. We already have two other addresses like this tied to Google Groups: - [email protected] -...

## Summarize the issue in one sentence The image of the notice used in the [car rollover safety example](https://plainlanguage.gov/examples/before-and-after/car-safety/) in the before/after section isn't legible. A copy of this image,...

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