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State officials report major progress on Vermont's website accessibility push, flag ongoing gaps
Summary
Agency of Digital Services and Administration told the House Energy committee that automated scans of 130 state template sites flagged about 45,000 issues initially; central code fixes and editor training have cut that to roughly 3,000 and driven an average template score near 99%, but officials said document and application remediation and a skills gap remain.
State Agency of Digital Services officials told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure committee on April 15 that the State of Vermont has made substantial progress toward meeting newly adopted digital-accessibility requirements but still faces work on documents, legacy applications and training.
Rebecca Kelly, chief communications officer for the Agency of Administration, and Maggie Wilson, director of web services at the Agency of Digital Services, said the state is using a two-pronged approach: central technical fixes to the shared Drupal template and targeted training and tools for site editors across agencies.
The presenters said an automated scan of roughly 130 state template websites initially surfaced about 45,000 accessibility issues — a large share of which were duplicate defects stemming from shared design components. After batched code deployments and editor remediation, they reported a roughly 95% reduction to around 3,000 flagged items and an average automated score of about 99% on template sites. "We've dramatically reduced the amount of issues," Wilson…
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