Roadmap

This roadmap shows what we're working on and planning to do.

Some things on the roadmap might change — the purpose is to tell you what's coming up and help service teams prepare and plan their own work.

See our Github team board for more details on our plans and day-to-day activities.

Last updated 23 February 2023.

Recently shipped

We recently:

• published an accessibility strategy for the gov.ie Design System
• released the Summary card variant
• made it easier to find information about contributing and the community
• improved how contributions are prioritised
• added functionality for browsers to 'find in page' within the Accordion component`
• added support for 'source maps' for precompiled gov.ie Frontend Javascript files

Working on now

We're working to:

• host community co-design work to turn task-list into a component
• host community co-design work to make maps better
• release the Hide this page component
• improve how JavaScript works in gov.ie Frontend
• iterate on alt text guidance for the images style page
• make it easier for teams to share their findings from user research

Coming up next

We're getting ready to:

• implement our proposal for reducing browser support
• investigate where technical documentation belongs on the website
• start working on the next component or pattern

Future plans

We plan to:

• investigate Sass module system
• make sure the Design System meets WCAG 2.2
• investigate removing compatibility mode