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IT director warns of federal ADA web-accessibility deadline; proposes $300,000 start to overhaul county website
Summary
Director Isaac Badu told Commissioners Court the county27s website and public portals are not fully ADA-compliant and cited a DOJ deadline for jurisdictions above 50,000 population; he proposed a multi-phase project with an initial $300,000 allocation and listed growing software-maintenance costs.
Isaac Badu, director of Information Technology Services, told Commissioners Court on June 25 the county27s website and public-access portals contain accessibility gaps and that federal guidance will require agencies serving more than 50,000 people to meet web content accessibility guidelines by April 2026.
Badu said an external review and internal checks show the county site contains non-OCR scanned documents, inconsistent file naming and structural issues that prevent screen readers and assistive technologies from correctly rendering content. He gave a live demonstration showing how a PDF on the site reads poorly for a nonvisual user and said that even file-naming conventions (e.g., file numbers rather than descriptive titles) degrade…
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