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County staff say website near 95% accessible but PDFs remain key hurdle ahead of new state law
Summary
Lake County communications staff briefed commissioners on Colorado’s web-accessibility requirement set to take effect in July and described progress and remaining work: the main website is about 95% compliant but many PDFs and tabular documents need remediation or outsourcing.
Lake County communications staff told the Board of County Commissioners they are close to meeting Colorado’s new web-accessibility standard but that significant remaining work — especially on PDF documents and tables — must be finished before the July compliance deadline.
Sandy Scheiner, the county’s communications manager, told commissioners the state bill identified in the packet as “House Bill 21 11 10” is scheduled to take effect in July. She said the county’s main website is approximately 95% compliant with WCAG-level checks performed in the last audit, but that uploaded PDFs and complex tables remain a larger problem.
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