Is Longmont's Website Ready for the ADA Title II Deadline?
Did you know the deadline already changed?
The deadline you may have written down last year is no longer the right one. A DOJ Interim Final Rule issued April 20, 2026 extended the original ADA Title II dates by one year, so Longmont now has until April 26, 2027. That extra year is exactly the window to find and fix problems before enforcement begins — the DOJ has given no signal that the date will move again.
Longmont's latest accessibility scan
Overall compliance risk: Moderate — 10 PDFs fail basic accessibility checks
Top issues, in plain English
- critical Buttons have no accessible name — assistive tech users can't tell what they do (WCAG 4.1.2 · 2 pages)
- serious List items sit outside a proper list, so screen readers misread them (WCAG 1.3.1 · 5 pages)
- serious Elements must only use permitted ARIA attributes (WCAG 4.1.2 · 3 pages)
- serious Text is too low-contrast against its background to read comfortably (WCAG 1.4.3 · 1 page)
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What WCAG 2.1 Level AA means for city government websites
Because Longmont serves 99,818 residents — above the DOJ's 50,000-person threshold — it falls in the first enforcement wave, with the earlier of the two federal deadlines.
WCAG 2.1 Level AA is the technical standard the DOJ adopted for ADA Title II. In plain terms, it's a checklist that makes sure residents who use screen readers, keyboard navigation, or captions can actually use your website: text on every image, labels on every form field, enough color contrast to read, and video captions.
For first-wave entities, the practical risk isn't only DOJ action — it's private lawsuits and demand letters that cite the federal standard the moment the deadline passes.
Longmont is a mid-size community that lands in the larger of the DOJ's two enforcement tiers, and its website is the front door for business licensing, utility sign-up, and code enforcement requests. Under ADA Title II, that front door has to work for every resident.
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