About
Community
We have an active open source community of content specialists, designers, engineers, and other technologists. Contributors support dozens of agencies and hundreds of websites across the federal government.
Join the community
The USWDS community has been working together since 2015 to make it easier to build accessible, mobile-friendly government websites.
Join us in the #uswds-public channel in Slack by filling out our form. The community is open to the public. Members include content specialists, designers, engineers, and other technologists who share ideas, challenges, lessons learned, and best practices in design and design systems.
If you’re having trouble, email [email protected] with Join the USWDS Community in the subject.
Contribute to USWDS
There are several ways to contribute to USWDS. Participating in the community is one way to contribute. See our contributing guidelines for more about how to contribute back to our codebase. Also, please note that every submission we receive goes through a full design and code review.
Community conduct
By voluntarily participating in this community, you are agreeing to abide by the Digital.gov Community Guidelines and the TTS Code of Conduct. Respect your peers, use plain language, be patient, practice constructive criticism, and stay organized.
Community manager
U.S. General Services Administration
Latest updates
Meaningful code and guidance updates are listed in the following table:
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2025-05-02 |
Replacing all references to chat.18f.gov. 18f.gov was decommissioned, preventing people from accessing this form. Now linking directly instead. More information: uswds-site#1849 |
| 2025-04-30 |
Removed Dan Williams from the community managers section and added Anne Petersen. More information: uswds-site#1849 |
| 2022-10-20 |
Updated community conduct section. More information: uswds-site#1849 |
| 2022-08-29 |
Removed Ammie Farraj Feijoo from the community managers section. More information: uswds-site#1750 |
