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Georgia Tech academic department

A multi-site Drupal ecosystem modernized for accessibility and mobile

InfoStride is partnering with a Georgia Institute of Technology academic department to modernize a multi-site Drupal ecosystem supporting prospective students, current students, faculty, researchers and departmental stakeholders. The engagement focuses on accessibility, usability and mobile responsiveness across five or more core content areas — academic programs, faculty directories, research groups, student resources and news and events — aligned with WCAG 2.1 AA standards and Georgia Tech's digital brand guidelines.

Georgia Tech academic department

Client

Georgia Tech academic department

Platform

Multi-site Drupal

Standard

WCAG 2.1 AA

Status

Active engagement

5+

Core content areas in scope

Programs, faculty, research, student resources, news.

AA

WCAG 2.1 target

Aligned with Georgia Tech's digital brand guidelines.

4

Stakeholder audiences served

Prospective and current students, faculty, researchers.

Key challenges

  • A multi-site Drupal ecosystem serving five distinct stakeholder audiences with different needs.
  • Accessibility and mobile responsiveness gaps across academic programs, faculty directories and research group sites.
  • Content discoverability limited by inconsistent navigation and information architecture.
  • Aligning a distributed departmental estate with Georgia Tech's digital brand guidelines.
  • Maintaining a scalable content management model the department can sustain itself.
  • Optimizing academic program comparison tools and faculty research portfolio templates.
  • Preserving existing search engine visibility and URL taxonomies during multi-site restructuring.

The InfoStride solution

  1. Audit across five content areas
    Academic programs, faculty directories, research groups, student resources and news and events assessed for accessibility, usability and mobile behaviour.
  2. Design to WCAG 2.1 AA
    Interface and template work aligned to WCAG 2.1 AA and Georgia Tech's digital brand guidelines simultaneously.
  3. Rebuild navigation and discoverability
    Information architecture reworked so prospective students, faculty and researchers each reach what they came for.
  4. Mobile usability
    Responsive behaviour rebuilt across the ecosystem rather than patched per template.
  5. Scalable Drupal architecture
    A structure that strengthens SEO performance, simplifies content management and supports future departmental growth.
  6. Faculty directory & research integration
    Structured custom post types for faculty expertise search and research project showcases.
  7. Continuous UX & performance testing
    Integrated analytics and continuous testing tools to sustain high student engagement.

Outcomes

What Georgia Tech academic department has now

  1. A modern, WCAG 2.1 AA compliant digital experience across the departmental ecosystem.
  2. Improved navigation, accessibility, mobile usability and content discoverability.
  3. A scalable Drupal architecture strengthening SEO performance and simplifying content management.
  4. A sustainable foundation for future growth of the department's digital estate.
  5. Enhanced engagement for students, faculty and researchers across all five content areas.
  6. Faculty expertise directories and research portfolios built with accessible semantic structures.
  7. Responsive mobile layout optimization verified across all desktop, tablet, and smartphone viewports.
  8. Long-term departmental autonomy established with intuitive content editing workflows.

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