Conditions of participation
The website must:
• Deliver a clean, modern, and inspiring visual experience, reflecting Sport Wales’s brand and the breadth and value of sport across Wales.
• Provide a fully bilingual (Welsh and English) experience, giving both languages equal prominence in navigation, structure, and content.
• Be mobile-first and responsive, optimised for accessibility and performance on all devices.
• Achieve WCAG 2.2 AA compliance, ensuring the site is inclusive and usable by everyone, including those using assistive technologies.
• Be intuitive and user-friendly, allowing visitors to easily find information, access services, and understand Sport Wales’s purpose and priorities.
• Incorporate a powerful bilingual search and clear navigation system to support fast content discovery.
• Be secure, scalable, and future-proof, using a UK-based ISO 27001 certified hosting environment and supporting easy transfer (“lift and shift”) to alternative hosting providers if required.
• Support integration with key digital tools such as analytics and email marketing systems.
• Include a user-friendly CMS with WYSIWYG editing, approval workflows, and structured templates, enabling Sport Wales staff to manage bilingual content efficiently.
• Be fully built and hosted within the UK to mitigate extraterritorial data transfers and ensure governance is aligned to UK standards