Equality Commission for Northern Ireland

Redesigning a complex public sector website with accessibility, clarity and user-first thinking.

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Equality Commission for Northern Ireland homepage, featuring children outdoors, equality advice links and sections highlighting the Commission’s work.

Public Sector

Working for Equality

The Equality Commission for Northern Ireland is an independent public body responsible for overseeing equality and discrimination law across the region. It serves a wide range of audiences, from individuals facing discrimination and employers navigating their legal obligations, to public authorities with statutory duties under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998.

Eyekiller partnered with the Commission to design and build a new website that matched the ambition of their mandate. The result is a rigorously accessible, content-rich digital platform built to WCAG 2.2 AA standards and powered by Craft CMS, giving the Commission a modern, inclusive presence that works for every user it serves.

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Project Highlights

Led a full Discovery phase including workshops and wireframe prototyping
Audience-led IA with distinct signposts for user groups
Built to WCAG 2.2 AA with accessibility embedded from the ground up
Employer Register Search to check registration status
Secure AWS hosting with resilient infrastructure and GDPR compliance

Equality Commission for Northern Ireland website work section, showing two people talking in a café and sections highlighting policy, research and investigation work.

Rights Clearly Delivered

For an organisation whose entire purpose is inclusion, the website could not afford to treat accessibility as a refinement. Eyekiller's discovery process began with collaborative workshops to map the information architecture around audience needs. User experience design shaped every decision, from the prominent site-wide search to category tagging that automatically cross-references related content. Accessible design was built in from the outset, with a visual language kept deliberately functional, calm and trustworthy.

Built on Craft CMS, the site gives the Commission's team full editorial control over a substantial content estate, including long-form reports and accessible data tables. Website development was underpinned by secure AWS hosting with resilient infrastructure designed for a public sector service of this scale. A solid technical SEO foundation ensures the site is as discoverable as it is usable, while a bespoke Employer Register Search tool allows businesses to check their Article 47 registration status directly on the site.