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Santa Monica outlines web-accessibility plan, will retire legacy sites and require vendor evidence of conformance
Summary
City information staff told the Disabilities Commission the city will centralize content under santamonica.gov, require vendor evidence of WCAG/ADA compliance, train all content authors, and add ongoing monitoring and human testing ahead of an April deadline.
Faraz Mercia, the City of Santa Monica’s chief information officer, told the Disabilities Commission the city has launched a concentrated push to make its websites accessible to people with disabilities and to meet ADA-oriented web standards.
“We are looking to make sure that, all our systems are, accessible, in accordance with the ADA guidelines,” Mercia said during the commission’s December meeting. He and Jeremy Peterson, the city’s user experience designer, described a two-part evaluation approach that pairs automated monitoring tools with human validation and manual testing.
The presenters said the city has written…
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