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Health & Medical Research · Adelaide, SA · Custom Web Application

SAHMRI.

A multilingual health platform serving culturally diverse communities across South Australia.

Visit live site

40+

Languages supported

24/7

Production reliability

5+ yrs

Continuous engagement

The brief

01

What they came to us with.

Health Translations SA needed a robust, accessible, multilingual platform to centralise translated health resources for South Australia’s culturally and linguistically diverse communities. The platform had to support 40+ languages, work flawlessly on low-bandwidth devices, meet stringent accessibility standards, and be maintainable by a small editorial team. The platform is governed under the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI).

Our approach

02

How we thought about it.

We came on as the technical partner for the custom-built Health Translations SA platform. The architecture is content-first with multilingual support baked in from day one — not bolted on later. Every page, every component, every URL is structured to scale across languages without forking the codebase. Accessibility is treated as non-negotiable: WCAG 2.1 AA compliance verified through automated and manual testing.

The build

03

What we made.

A custom platform built on a hardened content infrastructure with translation workflows, version control on translated assets, automated build pipelines, and observability across the public-facing site and the editorial backend. Performance is tuned aggressively — the platform serves users on aging devices and unreliable connections, so every kilobyte matters. We provide ongoing engineering, monitoring, and feature work as the platform’s long-term support partner.

The outcome

04

Where it landed.

A platform that has run reliably in production for years, supporting public health communications across 40+ languages, with editorial tools the in-house team can extend without our day-to-day involvement. The relationship continues as the platform grows.

Stack

What runs the system.

Custom CMSMultilingual i18nWCAG 2.1 AACloudflareServer-side renderingTranslation APIs
“Andrew has been our long-term technical partner. The platform just works — and when we need to extend it, the team understands what we built and why.”

Health Translations SA Project Lead

Let’s build something

The right system,
built once, properly.

If your business is ready to scale beyond what off-the-shelf tools can support — we should talk.