What's on the SDP roadmap?

Multi-factor authentication helps make systems more secure. It does this by requiring users to provide more than a username and password to access a platform.

It will help to prevent unauthorised access to the Content Management System through hacking, phishing attacks or other ways of tricking people into providing their login details.

This will reduce the risk of data theft, access to sensitive information or unauthorised publishing.

We're rolling this feature out to all SDP websites this quarter.

Our mapping solution is upgraded to Ripple 2 so it's consistent, accessible and user-friendly.

We are now adding basic map interactions to Google Analytics so we can track usage.

We are working on adding features identified by our users as most needed. This will mean a reduced need to use other form solutions.

This includes adding file upload that isn't stored in the CMS. We are also doing discovery work on multi-step forms requirements, including decision-tree style functionality.

We have documented current gaps with the existing CMS permissions

We are now getting feedback on requirements from our community of practice. We will document these and start to write user stories on changes required this quarter.

Currently breadcrumbs are added through the top navigation. This has created a poor user experience as top navigation goes to a greater depth than required and has also created performance issues for the content.vic.gov.au.

This work will move the creation of breadcrumbs to the page level.

SDP technology currently meets Web Content Accessibility Guideline 2.1 AA. WCAG 2.2 was released in October 2023. Our next target is to meet WCAG 2.2 AA.

Our work to upgrade the Ripple design system over the last year makes this an easier task to complete. Before we start work we'll get an external assessment of where we're at and what we need to do to move to WCAG 2.2 AA.

Once we've upgraded to Drupal 10.3, the next step is to move to Drupal 11. Drupal 11 is expected to be released at the end of 2024. Timing of our upgrade to this release will depend on the stability of the platform and the features available.

We are working on improving search results for search listings.

The increasing number of sites on the vic.gov.au CMS backend content.vic.gov.au means if there are issues then more users are impacted.

This quarter we are doing discovery on creating another backend for semi-independent sites.