Homepage

Release notes

Production release: 06 May 2026

  • Ability to manually insert a meta title for the home page allowing us to optimise for SEO
  • Made sure that it is not possible to have multiple or duplicate <h1>'s on a page. This tag tells search engine crawlers what the main header/title is on a page so we would have sending mixed messages
  • Fixed a bug relating to buttons not being clickable within a hero banner when no image is being used
  • Added functionality to control the height of the iFrame component to avoid embedded forms being cut off and users needing to recognise they are required to scroll within the component to see the rest of the form
  • Another production release is expected w/c 11/05/2026 but will be focused on security upgrades to the platform.


Production release: 25 November 2025

Accessibility & fixes:

  • Editable metadata description added to homepage
  • Numerous instances of text now included in an ARIA landmark
  • Testimonial content type now allows rich text in article template
  • Achievement section images set to object-fit: contain rather than object-cover

New Visual Identity:

  • New Info card section and variants
  • New Related section
  • New Form section and variants
  • New Hero sections


Production release: 11 November 2025

  • This release includes 33 important upgrades and security fixes designed to enhance system performance, stability, and protection.


Production release: 22 September 2025

Accessibility & fixes:

  • Empty container elements removed
  • Empty headings in promo removed
  • Title tag override for pages, removing potential duplicates
  • ARIA role and keyboard focus on homepage quick links fixed

New Visual Identity:

  • New achievement section, with linking option
  • New confirmation section
  • New Stats section with variants
  • New updated popular resource section
  • New topics list on downloads page
  • Removal of unused quote content type


Production release: 12 August 2025

Accessibility & fixes:

  • ARIA attribute unsupported or prohibited removed
  • Overline colour now consistant

New Visual Identity:

  • New homepage hero with tabbed audience links
  • New T&C's section visual updated

New SEO update:

  • Article structured data JSON schema added


Production release: 15 July 2025

Accessibility fixes:

  • Interactive element size increase in nav search input to meet AA WCAG
  • Documents search now has a visible label and accessible name

New Visual Identity:

  • Updated the article with new visual id
  • Added new "share to email" function to articles
  • Campaign hero updated with visual id
  • Promo and promo section updated with new visual id
  • Media section updated with visual id
  • Testimonials, four new versions in two themes
  • Margin fix for billboards 


Production release: 23 June 2025

Accessibility fixes:

  • Empty headings - When a non required item contains no text a coded heading would still be created and left empty confusing screen readers
  • Link missing a text alternative - Download icons now have a text alternative for screen readers

New Visual Identity:

As we begin to lay the foundations of our new visual identity slowly all components will come into align. A few visual bugs may exist during this transition.

  • Foundations - Spacing.  Updated components will adhere to a new spacing rules
  • Foundations - Typography. Globally updated and then will be refined on a component basis
  • New footer - New footer has been added with the removal of the pre footer
  • Billboard - Updated with new foundations and tidied up content model
  • Simple section - Updated with new foundations and restricted to four new brand variants, along with layout change for left align content.


Production release: 3 April 2025

  • New cookie acceptance banner. A choice must be made to view the website and cookies will be dropped or not depending on that choice.
  • Canonical meta tags now added to <head>.
  • URL's non indexed no longer appear in the XML sitemap.


Production release: 7 March 2025

  • NEW article template page

This includes:

  • New taxonomy to label articles by type and content
  • New header title and sub title to reduce long title names
  • New author component that contains, author avatar, author name, author LinkedIn, job title, read length, date published and edited.
  • Share icon to share to LinkedIn or Copy url to clip board
  • New Hero image non required
  • New text layout with ability to break long text up with, single, double images, simple section CTA and testimonials.
  • Ability to add any other component to the end.


Production release: 21 January 2025

  • New homepage hero. Designed in a bento box style allowing multiple messages and campaigns to be displayed at the same time.
  • Also contains a box with an audience selector to quick links based on the most popular links and pages for that audience. 


Production release: 21 November 2024

  • Event modal overlays now have a unique id url generated from the Kontent.ai system id, rather than Gatsby node id generated from a plugin.
  • This enables other sites/systems from generating their own URLs to deeplink to specific Events or Podcasts, specifically Employer portal.


Production release: 2 October 2024

  • Trailing slash urls are no more, redirects to none-trailing slash versions of URLs
  • Sitemap xml path is now correct
  • Promo empty header space now removed
  • Removed 'add to calendar' in webinar event item
  • Product page text size bug now resolved
  • Breadcrumbs now added across non dynamic pages


Production release: 15 August 2024

  • Unable to Access Top Nav Bar in mobile fixed
  • Numbered List Section numbers overlayed text links fixed
  • Wellbeing articles are not clickable under /employer/#wellbeing-calendar fixed
  • Search field - set `aria-label` appropriately on the input
  • Text link colour on skinny-promo now fixed
  • Update Search button aria-label
  • Stat component mobile view fixed
  • Google cookie consent now works as expected
  • Awards icons now stacking on Mobile
  • FAQ Page - Questions now have unique urls to link to
  • New Product Template hero 
  • NEW favicon
  • Body font size for promo component changed
  • Implement the new focus style for the button component visual indicator
  • Videos available on campaign hero
  • Remove <title> and <description> attributes from SVGs across the site
  • Removing sticky header and  height changes - to allow space for breadcrumbs in next release. 


Production release: 10 May 2024

  • Upgrade Gatsby from v3.15 to v5.13.3
  • Security updates


Production release: 06 March 2024

  • Internal and external links can be added to navigation items now with expected behaviour of a direct link without a dropdown.
  • GTM tag and Google Consents support for new enterprise container. 
  • New Iframe component giving the ability to display iframe content at full width or in a container.
  • All subtitles and body text items across the site are now available as rich text with certain restrictions.
  • Redirects are managed within Kontent.ai


Production release: 09 Jan 2024

  • Adding a second CTA to branch hero now works as expected
  • Article headings sizes are now inline with the rest of the site, while maintaining semantics
  • Page heroes are now not a required item
  • Confirmation section typography changes and CTA to homepage bug fixed
  • New T&C component that consists of rich text only at smaller size
  • Browser alert on content refresh has now been removed


Production release: 10 Oct 2023

  • Logo changed to now include registered mark.
  • Now self-hosting the font files resulting in consistently display Ubuntu font weights.
  • CSS transition on hover including buttons and main navigation.
  • Removal of pages preview page.
  • Button text weight - change from 700 to 600 to match wider digital landscape.
  • Contact tile "learn more" text can now be overridden.
  • Focal points in card collection background images are now working as expected.


Production release: 13 Jul 2023

New improved downloads page

  • Product and services orderable in kontent
  • Display products and services as cards on Downloads page
  • Display 'Popular Downloads' document links on Downloads page
  • Updated downloads page background, button style and title
  • Display documents for product or service
  • Update document card with new styling
  • Display filters document type filters with new styling
  • Placement of product/service specific search
  • Non-product related search results view
  • Display 'Related Pages' on specific product view
  • Created "Topic" content model
  • Migrated to Topic model
  • Re-written search filtering code
  • Removal of Twitter


Production release: 24 Apr 2023

  • Subtitle paragraph tags visible now removed
  • Homepage hero poster image now working
  • New extended background colours
  • Special characters stripped from <title> tag
  • Separate the header and or footer on/off option on pages
  • Wellbeing calendar label change
  • Allow Rich text in all subtitles


Production release: 14 Feb 2023

  • External Video - missing border radius now added
  • Wellbeing podcast cards match events style more
  • Simple section amend component to have backgrounds and text alignment
  • New Campaign hero
  • New Billboard component
  • New Media section component
  • Wellbeing calendar - Awareness day time now optional


Production release: 2 Feb 2023

  • Incorrect hard coded Sick Pay Icon now correct
  • Promo featured media videos now working
  • New Skinny promo component with changeable background colours
  • New Home page hero with video option
  • New coloured Gradients available to certain components
  • All external links now open in new window or tab.
  • Wellbeing Hub - whole card is now clickable
  • Testimonial component- Font size decrease on all variations
  • TitleWithContent - headers are now consistent