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County and city officials say websites, PDFs remain major barrier to ADA compliance
Summary
County and municipal staff told the Accessibility Coalition for Tippecanoe County that web and PDF remediation across dozens of departments is incomplete, that remediation is labor-intensive, and that departments must adopt accessible-document practices to meet upcoming deadlines.
Tim Clark, an appointed volunteer overseeing the Accessibility Coalition for Tippecanoe County, said county and municipal websites and document libraries remain a significant accessibility challenge for residents and businesses.
The county’s IT and communications staff told the coalition on July 29 that most web pages are “majority” compliant but the backlog of PDFs and other legacy documents remains large and time-consuming to fix. Kent, identified in the meeting as the county’s IT director/Chief Information official, said the county’s website “is coming along” but that “the PDFs remain the biggest challenge.”
Why it matters: inaccessible PDFs and websites can prevent people with vision, hearing or cognitive disabilities from accessing public notices, forms and maps…
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