The standards setter says the redesign of its public website follows detailed research to better understand users’ needs and identify the most highly valued content. The resulting fundamental restructuring is intended to offer an easy-to-use site that fully supports a range of devices, including desktops, tablets and mobile phones.

Among the planned changes to the site will be the ability to ‘follow’ projects or topics, with updates on followed pages being displayed in a personal dashboard; a single sign-on to all services, including eIFRS, webcasts and the IFRS Foundation Online Shop; and a sign up for email alerts for followed items, with the option of specifying the frequency of email delivery.

In addition IASB will introduce a new supporting implementation section with links to resources to be used for implementing recently issued IFRS Standards and applying others, plus a new homepage, with a list of documents open for comments and bespoke sections for user groups, such as investors or academics.

The new website will also feature redesigned current work plan, projects, and issued IFRS Standards pages; an interactive map for browsing information about the use of IFRS standards around the world; and will make greater use of multimedia content, including animated videos to explain the relevance of IASB’s work and the standard-setting process.

IASB says that because it stores thousands of documents on its current server, content is migrating to the new website in phases. Content yet to be migrated will remain in an archive of the current website, which will be available to access via archive.ifrs.org.

Registered users will be able to use their existing credentials to log in to the new public website, although they will need to re-specify which email alerts they wish to receive.