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Technology Commission authorizes $10,000 to begin ADA/WCAG remediation of Franklin City website
Summary
The Franklin Technology Commission approved up to $10,000, funded by a health-department grant that expires in December 2025, to pay a vendor for an initial WCAG 2.1 pre-scan and prioritized remediation of the city website; the commission required a measurable prescan and postscan baseline.
The Franklin Technology Commission voted Dec. 3 to authorize spending up to $10,000 to begin remediation of the City of Franklin website so it meets baseline web accessibility standards.
Commission members said the funds, drawn from a Franklin Health Department grant that expires in December 2025, will pay for a vendor to run an initial WCAG 2.1 compliance scan, deliver a prioritized remediation plan, and implement low-hanging automated fixes on live web pages. An initial phase will exclude the city’s document archive, which staff said contains more than 10,000 legacy files that will require separate OCR and remediation work.
The vote followed a staff presentation explaining the technical categories of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) — perceivable, operable, understandable and…
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