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Council hears update on state website-accessibility rules, grace period
Summary
Presenters said Castle Pines meets the law's good-faith posting requirements and noted a one-year grace period while final rules were adopted; the city will need to finish compliance steps by the statutory deadline unless the legislature acts.
Evan King, a municipal attorney presenting the legislative update, told the City Council that the 2021 accessibility law requires municipal websites and certain information-technology systems to meet specified accessibility standards. "We are in compliance with the good faith requirements," King said, noting the state’s final rules narrowed the scope of materials that must be converted and granted a one-year grace period for municipalities taking good-faith steps.
King explained the final rules exempted archival, historic material (for example handwritten notes) from conversion requirements, which reduces the burden but still requires active materials and newly created content to meet accessibility standards by the deadline unless the 2025 legislature extends the grace period. Council requested a memo enumerating which documents must be posted and whether older ordinances can be indexed for public requests.
