What Happened? Just a quick note here. About a month ago, we participated in the rulemaking by Colorado’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) after they dropped a bombshell by releasing an early draft of their proposed amendments to their accessibility…
Legal Update: March 2025
March was a pretty slow month as far as Lexis’s reporting goes…. Calcano Still Looms Large in New York The Second Circuit’s Calcano opinion now appears to be the most popular way that courts in the Second Circuit dispose of…
News: Colorado OIT Amended Rulemaking
Last week was a busy week at Converge. A lot of action has been happening with state and local governments. Towards the beginning of the week, however, Colorado’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) dropped a bombshell by releasing an early…
Legal Update: February 2025
Wow, February was a busy month! I’ll start with some of the new cases– starting with a Title II case and then two cases that chip away at the nexus standard. Then, I’ll talk about two more states that are…
New DOJ Title II Web Accessibility Guidance
On January 8, our friends at the Disability Rights Section issued new guidance, State and Local Governments: First Steps Toward Complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act Title II Web and Mobile Application Accessibility Rule. Of course, this was shortly…
Legal Update: January 2025
January 2025 has been tumultuous on so many levels and it was good to have the opportunity to sit down and reflect back. It’s also been sunny up here in the Pacific Northwest, which unfortunately means much colder weather than…
Municipality Document Compliance WebinarBest Practices & Key Insights for 2025
Attention Municipal Leaders, Clerks, and Accessibility Advocates! Are you confident your municipality’s documents meet accessibility compliance standards? Join Continual Engine’s Kritin Yokota and Converge Accessibility’s Ken Nakata for a FREE webinar where we’ll uncover: ✅ The most common document compliance…
Legal Update: December 2024
December was a Slow Month 2025 is going to end with a whimper and not a bang. My not-so-reliable Lexis alerts, only offered one case this month– and even it is hardly newsworthy. Back in August, I described Velazquez v.…
Legal Update: November 2024
Wow, can you believe it’s really December? Between national and personal events, I happy that November is in the rear view mirror. November also didn’t bring us much in terms of web accessibility cases. Eastern District of Pennsylvania Leans Towards…
How to Comply with DOJ’s Seemingly Impossible Web Accessibility Regulation
When DOJ came out with its original draft regulation, I compared it to a train wreck. Local governments use hundreds of web applications and expecting WCAG 2.1 A/AA compliance for all of them was impossible. When the final rule came…




