A New Guide for Small Governments As of April 24, 2024, the Department of Justice has rolled out an important update to the Title II regulations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), focusing on the accessibility of web content…
HHS New Section 504 Requires WCAG 2.1 A/AA Compliance
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) just issued a new Section 504 regulation that will have a huge impact of health care providers around the country. Back in September, I blogged about the draft regulations created by HHS.…
States Can Make Digital Accessibility Easier for Municipalities (Part 3)
This is part 3 of our series for improving digital accessibility considering the new Department of Justice web accessibility regulation. This time, we’re focusing on the leadership and advising role that the state Chief Information Officer (CIO) and state Office…
Web Accessibility Regulation for the Private Sector?
Just a month ago, I blogged about the Department of Justice issuing its new final regulation for state and local government websites. As part of that blog, I predicted that we wouldn’t see a similar Title III web accessibility in…
Legal Update: April 2024
This week, we’re taking a tiny break from our series on state governments and web accessibility to keep up with legal developments over the last month. As I learned (painfully) at the beginning of the month, it’s far better to…
States Can Make Digital Accessibility Easier for Municipalities (Part 2)
This is part 2 of our series for improving digital accessibility considering the new Department of Justice web accessibility regulation. The Problem: Local Governments Can’t Effectively Test and Fix All of Their Web Content In our work with cities and…
States Can Make Digital Accessibility Easier for Municipalities
Last Monday, the Department of Justice issued its final rule for state and local government web accessibility. This rule will soon be published in the Federal Register and large public entities will have two years to make their websites and…
Legal Update Double Issue: February-March 2024
Welcome to our first double-issue Legal Update! I didn’t plan to combine February and March into a single issue, but Jeff and I were swamped with the PacRim Conference. It’s really no fun putting together a double issue because there’s…
Testifying Before Colorado OIT
Laura and I had the honor of testifying last week in Colorado’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) public hearing for its Proposed Technology Accessibility Rules. I’ve previously blogged about Colorado’s HB 21-1110 (which requires Colorado public entities (including local municipalities)…
Legal Update: January 2024
Happy New Year! 2023 was a good year for Converge Accessibility. In terms of legal cases, however, the year ended fairly quietly. Failing to Remove a Barrier is Not Necessarily Intentional Discrimination First up this month is Martin v. SoundCloud,…