Digital Accessibility

Current Status:

December, 2025

Goal setting, core leadership training

January 2026:

Core leadership training, Notebook LM project for planning

February 2026:

Website creation, document guides, website plans

March 2026:

Website audit to remove old content, change file formats and identify major content creators for training.

April 2026

Preparing to move to new web provider, storing documents older than 3 years offline (but available upon request), All images on website now have included alt text.

4/20/26: DOJ postponed deadline for compliance for one year

May 2026

Temporary Website lost the alt text we had entered, but the new one when it is launched will have it once again. Additionally, no image can be added to the new website without alt text.

June 2026

This placeholder marks the future home of our district’s Single Source of Truth, a centralized documentation hub designed to verify that we are earnestly working toward fixing current digital barriers and operationalizing accessibility across all services.

This hub will eventually serve as a comprehensive planning template that helps the district achieve two primary outcomes:

Immediate Remediation: It will house our Digital Asset Inventory, a detailed list of all "technology touchpoints" (including websites, mobile apps, and internal documents) that are being assessed and remediated to meet mandatory technical standards. By putting these into a maturity model, we can transparently show what content has been made accessible, what is currently being worked on, and what remains in the backlog.
Operationalizing Accessibility: The hub will build accessibility directly into our organizational roles and daily processes. This proactive "accessibility-by-design" mindset is intended to help the district avoid "costly accessibility debt" in the future, where inaccessible content is created and must be expensively retrofitted later.

As this page grows, it will be organized around six core criteria for adopting accessibility:

Governance & Roles: Defining who is responsible for specific digital domains.
Evaluation & Remediation: Tracking the testing and validation of our digital content.
Skills: Housing training resources and hiring toolkits to ensure staff have the necessary expertise.
Communication & Support: Establishing "well-tended channels" for receiving and resolving accessibility feedback from the community.
Procurement & Vendor Management: Ensuring third-party tools are vetted via Accessibility Conformance Reports (ACR) and VPATs before purchase.
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC): Incorporating accessibility into the maintenance and development of digital tools in a consistent, repeatable fashion.

The ultimate goal of this "Single Source of Truth" is to move the district beyond a "checkbox" compliance mindset. By formalizing these processes, we ensure that digital equity is integrated into the fabric of our operations and is not dependent on a specific individual to "carry the torch" for any single event or project.

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