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State agency outlines steps to meet federal web-accessibility rules before April 2026 deadline
Summary
At an internal workshop, the agency’s digital ADA coordinator walked staff through concrete fixes — from tagging PDFs and writing alt text to using Microsoft accessibility checkers — and set an April 24, 2026 compliance milestone for state and local government sites.
Unidentified Speaker (agency ADA coordinator for digital) told staff at a training that the agency is reworking all its websites to meet federal web-accessibility standards and urged employees to add simple checks to their workflow now to avoid problems when the new rules take effect.
"If the federal standards were to take into effect today, the majority of our errors would be our PDF documents," the unidentified presenter said, explaining that two frequent problems are image-based PDFs and missing alt text on graphics. The presenter said a vendor team will begin converting the first group of sites (Regence and Lewis) with a target go‑live in mid‑December.
The training framed the technical requirements through plain-language rules staff can use: descriptive…
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