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Board approves digital accessibility plan with April 2027 WCAG AA target
Summary
Supervisors approved a county Digital Accessibility Plan that outlines steps and priorities to reach WCAG 2.1 AA standards by April 2027; staff emphasized training, reducing PDFs, and possible vendor costs for captioning and remediation.
The Board of Supervisors voted to approve a formal Digital Accessibility Plan that lays out scope, priorities and deliverables intended to reach WCAG 2.1 level AA compliance by April 2027.
Gabby DeWitt, the county marketing coordinator and a member of the accessibility team, described the plan as "a formalized roadmap of how we plan to get to that compliance and also just a culture of accessibility in Blackhawk County." She said the effort is intended to be a living document focused on training staff, tracking commonly used PDFs for remediation (or converting them into accessible web pages), and prioritizing the most-used content. The plan was vetted with a vendor (Accessiblue) and includes tracking and a decision matrix for which documents to remediate first.
Board members acknowledged potential costs for some remediation tasks such as producing high-quality captions for posted recordings and discussed prioritizing work into fiscal requests. The plan passed by resolution with board approval; staff said they will continue departmental outreach and report progress through existing channels.
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