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Ireland’s just transition, on the public record.

The Just Transition Commission advises Government on making the move to climate neutrality fair. Its website is where the reports, minutes and open letters reach the public.

At a glance Just Transition Commission 2026
Client
Just Transition Commission
Year
2026
Role
Design · Development · Accessibility
Deliverables
Website · CMS · Irish‑language version · Accessibility programme
Stack
WordPress · Elementor · ACF · TranslatePress

In short

The problem
A Government-appointed commission with a placeholder page for a website, and nowhere of its own to publish its research.
What we built
A website in the Commission’s own brand, with a publications library and a news archive.
What changed
Live since February 2026. An accessibility programme followed.
Role
Design · Development · Accessibility

The brief

A commission that looks like itself.

Loco Digital designed and built the Just Transition Commission website. The Commission is independent, and the brief asked for a site that does not look like gov.ie: its own navy and amber, set in Merriweather and Open Sans.

The Just Transition Commission website: the news archive, the homepage and the publications library

The home page

A film, then four principles.

The home page opens on the Commission’s own film, then sets out the four principles of a just transition. A sign-up for future publications sits under the hero, and an Irish-language version behind a switcher in the header.

Publishing

Every report, one click from its PDF.

Each publication card carries the report’s cover and its date. The news archive filters by category, and publications, commission members and recommendations are separate content types, so the secretariat can add a report or a member without a developer. Site search runs across all of it.

Accessibility

You can check this with a keyboard.

In July 2026 we carried out an accessibility programme on the live site. Links that open a new tab or a PDF announce it to a screen reader. The work ships as one plugin of our own, which changes no WordPress core, theme or third-party file, so it switches off in one step.

Skip link, first stop

Press Tab: the first thing you reach is a link to the main content.

Pause the hero film

A visible, labelled control stops the film, and it works from the keyboard.

Amber you can read

The amber used for text measures 4.98:1 on white, against a 4.5:1 AA bar.

The result

Measured on the live site.

The HTML site is aligned with WCAG 2.1 AA and EN 301 549 as applicable to web content, based on automated testing, manual keyboard testing and template review. The Commission’s published accessibility statement says the site is partially compliant. PDFs were out of scope.

0

WCAG 2.1 A and AA violations

100

Lighthouse accessibility

Violations counted with axe-core across the templates tested; the accessibility score with Lighthouse. Both on 19 September 2026.

See it live

Read the Commission’s reports.

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