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IT asks $10,000 for consultants as county faces WCAG 2.1 accessibility deadline
Summary
The county's IT director requested $10,000 to hire consultants to audit websites and implement tools needed to meet WCAG 2.1 (ADA) digital accessibility standards, warning of increased 'drive‑by' lawsuits if the county is not compliant by the federal timeline.
Madison County's IT director, Ellen, told supervisors the county must move quickly to comply with a new federal interpretation requiring certain jurisdictions to meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1. "We need to comply with title 2.1 of the WCAG standard which is the web content accessibility guidelines," she said, and recommended an initial consulting engagement to audit county sites, find gaps and deploy tools staff can use going forward.
Ellen described three budget requests for IT: a…
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