Knowledge base
Learn: Website Accessibility, Explained in Plain English
A website accessibility knowledge base: short, sourced guides to the ADA web rules and the WCAG standard behind them, written for the administrators and IT staff who have to act on them. The guides cite primary sources, such as the regulation, the DOJ's own materials, or the W3C standard, rather than a vendor's summary.
Sources
Which guide in this website accessibility knowledge base answers your question?
The WCAG 2.1 AA checklist
All 50 checkpoints the ADA Title II rule requires, in plain English, plus the 28 Level AAA criteria the rule does not require.
The Title II deadlines, explained
Where 04-26-2027 and 04-26-2028 come from, who falls under which date, and what to do with the time left.
Automated accessibility scans
What a scanner measures well, what it cannot judge at all, and why no honest vendor sells a compliance certificate.
Accessible documents
PDFs, agendas, minutes and forms: which documents the rule covers, which fall under an exception, and what an accessible document means.
Vendor-run websites
Your vendor built it, hosts it and updates it. The obligation is still yours. What the rule says and how to manage it.
Which guides cover specific audiences and risks?
School district website accessibility
Who is covered under ADA Title II, which deadline applies, and why portals and staff PDFs are the hard part.
City government website accessibility
Which deadline applies, what counts as your web content, and why agendas are a recurring load.
WCAG color contrast requirements
4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large text and controls, and where to check contrast first on government sites.
Accessibility remediation priorities
Blockers before volume, templates before pages, and why a fixed defect can come back unnoticed without repeat testing.
Accessibility overlays and ADA compliance
What the FTC alleged about overlay marketing claims, and why a script added on top cannot fix every problem in the underlying code.
Where should a new reader start?
With the main ADA Title II compliance page, which covers the rule, the deadlines and the service in one read. Then the checklist for the standard itself, and the deadline guide for planning. When you want to see where your own site stands, run a free Website SnapShot.