Guides

Website Accessibility Guides for Schools and Local Governments

Plain-English answers to the questions districts actually ask about ADA Title II and their websites. General information, not legal advice.

• The DOJ deadline, in plain English

  The 2027 and 2028 dates, the 2026 extension, and who falls under each.

• Our vendor says we are compliant. Are we?

  What Finalsite, Apptegy, Edlio, CivicPlus and other platforms cover, and what stays with you.

• Do old board meeting PDFs have to be accessible?

  The archived-content and preexisting-document exceptions, and a triage for a PDF backlog.

• How to check your website yourself

  Seven free tests you can run in an afternoon, and what they cannot tell you.

• What an accessibility audit costs

  Free scans, monitoring, manual audits, and what to put in a quote request.

• The most common problems on school websites

  What our scans actually find, as shares of the sites we have scanned.

• Your district received an OCR complaint. Now what?

  What OCR is, what typically happens next, and sensible first steps.

• What an OCR resolution agreement requires

  The commitments published website agreements have in common, and their timelines.