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Needham committee flags accessibility issues with town newsletter and notes upcoming municipal website law
Summary
A committee member who is visually impaired described difficulties using the town email/newsletter, members arranged a connection with the communications director, and the committee noted a new municipal digital-accessibility law that will affect local websites by 2027.
A visually impaired committee member told the Town of Needham Human Rights Committee that the town email/newsletter is hard to navigate with a screen reader because it lacks clear headings and jump links. The member said the message often contains many items and that reading line-by-line takes 30–45 minutes; they proposed simple fixes such as structural…
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