uswds/uswds
Uswds
The United States Web Design System is a government design system and accessible UI framework. It provides a collection of standardized CSS and JavaScript components, along with a CSS component library, specifically designed for building consistent federal government websites.
The system allows for custom CSS theme development through the use of design tokens for colors, spacing, and typography. Users can customize visual themes and compile custom styles to maintain a unified brand identity across multiple web properties.
The framework covers responsive interface design and web accessibility compliance to ensure interfaces meet legal standards and function across different screen sizes. It includes a utility-first CSS framework and tools to manage component interactivity and prevent layout shifts during page load.
Features
- Accessible UI Frameworks - Ships a comprehensive set of web interface elements and styles that conform to international accessibility and mobile-friendly standards.
- Design System Implementations - Provides a comprehensive framework that centralizes visual tokens and styling patterns for consistent branding.
- Accessibility Standards - Implements accessibility standards to ensure software usability for diverse users across all devices.
- Accessible UI Components - Provides interactive UI components built with accessibility standards and keyboard support.
- CSS Component Libraries - Provides a library of pre-styled user interface elements with customizable design tokens for consistent visual identity.
- CSS Variable Theming - Implements a system mapping design tokens to native CSS variables for dynamic custom styling.
- Design System Components - Implements a system of reusable UI elements and visual guidelines to maintain a unified brand identity across web properties.
- Government Design Systems - Offers a standardized collection of accessible CSS and JavaScript components specifically designed for federal government websites.
- Design Tokens - Centralizes colors, spacing, and typography using design tokens to ensure visual consistency.
- Web Accessibility Compliance - Provides a framework that implements design and development standards to ensure federal web content meets legal accessibility requirements.
- Interface Accessibility - Ensures user interfaces integrate with assistive technologies to meet legal accessibility requirements.
- Responsive Interfaces - Implements user interfaces that automatically adapt their layout for different device screen sizes.
- Visual Theme Configurations - Provides standardized configurations for global styles, palettes, and spacing via design tokens.
- Visual Themes - Allows for the creation of custom visual themes to maintain a unified brand identity.
- WAI-ARIA Frameworks - Implements standardized ARIA attributes and keyboard event handlers to ensure web accessibility compliance.
- Government Web Frameworks - Provides a standardized UI framework specifically designed for building consistent federal government websites.
- Stylesheet Compilation - Transforms Sass source stylesheets into standard CSS to enable custom theme overrides.
- Style Compilers - Ships tools to compile custom style definitions into static CSS files for theme customization.
- Component Initialization - Provides a standardized interface for mounting and configuring the interactive behavior of UI components.
- Component Interaction Management - Provides a standardized interface to manage the interactive behavior of elements like modals and toggles.
- Utility-First CSS Frameworks - Includes a utility-first CSS framework with low-level atomic classes for rapid layout construction.
- General Purpose Frameworks - Standardized components for government web applications.
