Website accessibility for Texas cities, counties, school districts and special districts
Government websites have a federal deadline. Yours is counting down.
The Justice Department’s ADA rule requires public websites, PDFs included, to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. We measure yours free and send the result within one business day.
167 days 09 hours 10 minutes
until April 26, 2027, the federal deadline for city, county and school district websites serving 50,000 people or more.
Free, read-only and no obligation. The scan changes nothing on your site.
The dates are set in federal rules
These are the published deadlines and the public lawsuit count. Each one links to its source.
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April 26, 2027
Cities, counties and school districts serving 50,000 people or more must meet WCAG 2.1 AA on their websites and apps.
Source: Justice Department rule, Federal Register, April 20, 2026
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April 26, 2028
Smaller governments, and every special district of any size: MUDs, water, utility, drainage and emergency services districts.
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May 11, 2027
Hospitals, clinics and health plans that receive federal health funding and have 15 or more employees. Fewer than 15: May 10, 2028.
Source: HHS Section 504 rule, Federal Register, May 11, 2026
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5,114 lawsuits
ADA digital accessibility lawsuits over websites and apps were filed in 2025, in federal and state courts combined.
How the rule is enforced
There is no automatic fine from Washington. Enforcement comes as a resident’s complaint, a Justice Department investigation, a lawsuit or a settlement. The first question in every one of them is what you did and when. A dated monthly record is the answer.
Waiting is a decision too
If you wait
- The date arrives and your pages and PDFs are the same as they are today.
- A complaint lands and you start from zero, with no record of the work.
- The fix becomes a rush job on someone else’s schedule.
- Someone sells you an overlay widget, and the page underneath stays broken.
What we do
- Measure every public page against WCAG 2.1 AA.
- Fix the real code: headings, labels, contrast, alt text and keyboard focus.
- Check and fix your PDFs, and move old ones into a labeled archive.
- Scan every month and send a dated report to your clerk or board.
- Post your accessibility statement and a feedback form.
Four steps, one dated record
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Free scan
Your website address in, a one-page result out within one business day: your score, the top failures in plain words and the deadline that applies to you.
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Fixes
We fix what the scan found, in your site’s own code, and tag or replace your current PDFs. Your accessibility statement and feedback form go up.
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Monthly monitoring
Every page scanned every month, new PDFs checked, new problems fixed, and a dated report sent to your clerk or board secretary.
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Training
Optional: one hour for the people who post content, on PDFs that pass, alt text and headings.
Your PDFs too. Most of your site is PDFs.
Agendas, minutes, budgets, rate orders and water quality reports. The federal rule covers them, and many scans read the web pages and stop there.
We check every current PDF, tag it or replace it so a screen reader can read it, and move older files into a labeled archive section.
Get your free scanPriced so your board can say yes
Fixed prices, and every public tier stays under the $50,000 bid line, so a council or board can approve it as a fixed-price purchase. Every tier includes the scan, the fixes, monthly monitoring with a dated report, and an accessibility statement kept current.
Find out where your website stands. Free, in one business day.
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