Is your government website accessible?
Check your site against WCAG 2.1 Level AA — the standard the Department of Justice requires under ADA Title II. Free, no account, no sales call.
Why you are getting this notice
On 24 April 2024 the Department of Justice adopted WCAG 2.1 Level AA as the accessibility standard for web content and mobile apps of state and local government entities. Compliance dates were extended on 20 April 2026:
| Deadline | Who it covers |
|---|---|
| 2027-04-26 | Entities with a total population of 50,000 or more |
| 2028-04-26 | Entities with a total population under 50,000, and all special district governments |
What happens if you miss the deadline
What makes this different
Other free scanners hand you a list of every violation in page order. If your site is built from a template, one missing label can appear two hundred times — and that list tells a part-time IT contractor nothing about where to start.
This tool ranks findings by what the failure does to a resident trying to complete a task, and collapses repeated instances of one problem into one fix. You get a short, ordered plan instead of a wall.
What we found across the sector
In a random sample of 80 local-government domains drawn from the federal .gov registry, 47.7% of the sites that loaded had at least one failure that blocks a resident from completing a task outright. Most had only a handful of problems — this is a population where a few specific, fixable things are wrong and nobody has been handed a short list.
What it cannot do
Automated testing reaches roughly a third of the WCAG success criteria. The rest need a person navigating with a keyboard and listening with a screen reader. A clean report here is a floor, not a certificate — and every report says so.