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Paris City Council hears web‑accessibility, PEG channel and social‑media plans from public information officer
Summary
Public Information Officer John McFadden told the Paris City Council that a Department of Justice direction will require municipal websites and web content to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards, described the scope and timeline for compliance and outlined plans for a PEG channel funded by franchise fees and a new social‑media team using CIVI Social.
John McFadden, the city’s public information officer, told the Paris City Council on Oct. 13 that a Department of Justice direction will require cities to bring web content into compliance with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 AA.
McFadden said the requirement applies to pages, downloadable documents (PDFs), images, social media content and third‑party contractor sites and that the city’s current website has roughly 200 pages and about 1,400 images. He said scanned documents in the city’s Laserfiche system present a particular challenge because screen readers cannot parse scanned images without optical character recognition. McFadden gave the compliance…
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