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Committee accepts ITA update on DOJ web‑accessibility rules; departments to report progress
Summary
City staff briefed the committee on required remediation under DOJ web- and mobile-app accessibility rules (WCAG 2.1), noted department reporting deadlines and encouraged departments to plan for consultant or vendor support; committee voted 3–0 (2 absent) to accept and file the report.
City staff from the Department on Disability and the Information Technology Agency (ITA) briefed the committee about the city’s plan to comply with Department of Justice web- and mobile-app accessibility requirements and technical guidance under WCAG 2.1.
Steven Chainmann (Department lead) and Eli Everett (director referenced) explained that the DOJ final rule sets concrete technical success criteria (examples cited: color-contrast checks, keyboard…
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