uswds-site

Under Executive Order 14151 "Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing" many links/pages were already removed from the design system https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3078 https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3053/files#diff-86c... (ie. inclusivecolors.com would be prohibited) Within 60 days "“diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility” (DEIA) mandates, policies, programs, preferences, and activities in the Federal Government" must be terminated https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

Much of the actual meat appears to be the deletion of this: https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/blob/086f98d7e1888854506... And it looks like the baby has gone out with the bathwater. Sure, if DEI is out of vogue, then get rid of the DEI language. Stop talking about “alienating” users. Remove the trauma language. But the actual actionable parts seem like they could be written in rather uncontentious ways, e.g.: Don’t require users to enter addresses in specific formats that are not consistent with the addresses of actual Americans. For that matter, don’t require addresses from people who may not have a well defined address, e.g. people displaced by disasters. Avoid requiring people to choose “Mr.” or “Ms.”. Many Americans prefer a different title or none at all. [I’ve met plenty of cis women who prefer a specific form that isn’t in that