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Council office flags federal web-accessibility deadline; staff to provide guidance for alder blogs and multimedia
Summary
Chief of staff Karen told the executive committee that federal rules require public-facing web content to meet accessibility standards by April 2026; staff and IT will provide guidance and may edit content to ensure compliance, including alt text, captioning and handling legacy PDFs and archived blogs.
Karen, chief of staff to the Common Council, told the executive committee on Aug. 5 that federal requirements will require Madison’s public-facing web content to meet accessibility standards by April 2026, and the council office and IT are preparing guidance for alders.
Karen noted that a practical step alders can take now is to avoid using all caps in blog headlines because capitalized text can cause problems for screen readers. Staff and IT plan to provide…
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