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Polk County moves to hire web-accessibility and social-media archival service to meet ADA and records requirements
Summary
Polk County Commissioner’s Court approved procurement of a web‑accessibility and social‑media archival service April 8 to help the county meet ADA requirements for digital content and to capture public online posts for records requests.
Polk County Commissioner’s Court on April 8 approved hiring a web‑service vendor to improve the county’s digital Americans with Disabilities Act compliance and to archive social media and website content for public‑records requests.
County staff said the county’s current website was not ADA‑compliant under prevailing guidance and that compliance now extends beyond physical facilities to include digital infrastructure. The proposed vendor, CivicPlus (referenced in materials and discussion as Civic Plus), would provide automated accessibility checks and corrections where possible and would capture and archive posts and comments from departmental social media pages in real time.
County officials told the court that…
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