WCAG & ADA Digital Accessibility Compliance for Local Governments
The Clock is Ticking!
Large municipalities only have until April 26, 2027 to meet new accessibility requirements (recently extended from April 26, 2026). Smaller localities and “special government districts” have an additional year.
New DOJ Requirements for Government Website Accessibility
The Department of Justice has released new rules requiring state and local government websites, apps, and social media posts to conform with Website Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA guidelines in order to comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
These new regulations apply to all digital content, including:
No Widgets Or Overlays
We do not use or recommend the use of accessibility widgets and overlays. The new DOJ rules apply to “web content” that includes “code or markup that defines the content’s structure, presentation, and interactions“. Widgets and overlays cannot edit the underlying code, structure, and interactions on your site in a way that makes it WCAG conformant.
..public entities will need to prepare for compliance during the two or three years before the compliance date…
page 121, DOJ Final Rulemaking
Accessibility Services
Elevage Digital can help you navigate the process of WCAG conformance that will touch many of the departments in your organization.
Program Management
We can help manage and track the status of all reviews and updates that need to happen across every department that manages public-facing tools, services, and content.
Testing and Remediation
We can conduct in-depth audits of every public website, app, third-party tool and social media channel your locality uses to serve its residents. We can fix issues or work with other development teams.
Document Remediation
We can inventory and assess all electronic documents and make a plan for archiving, converting to HTML or remediation. We can oversee the remediation process to ensure compliance.
Department Training
We can help create a training program for every department on accessibility as is relates to procurement, document creation, communication, website management and social media.
All of this work takes time, so you need to start now!
Recent Work and Results
WCAG 2.1 AA Conformance for Divi Website
Elevage Digital recently completed a custom Divi site remediation project to make it conform with WCAG 2.1AA in order to meet new federal regulations. As part of this project, we resolved over 800 issues.
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