Is Garland's Website Ready for the ADA Title II Deadline?
Did you know the deadline already changed?
If your compliance calendar still shows the original date, it's out of date: on April 20, 2026 the DOJ issued an Interim Final Rule that moved every ADA Title II web deadline back one year. For Garland, the operative date is now April 26, 2028. The public comment period closed June 22, 2026 — the deadline is set, and the clock is running.
Garland's latest accessibility scan
Overall compliance risk: High — 1 citizen service residents with disabilities may be unable to use
⚠ Critical Service Risk
These citizen services appear to have no accessible alternative pathway — the highest-exposure findings in this scan:
- Public records / records request — The only pathway we found for this service fails 2 serious accessibility checks — including: text is too low-contrast against its background to read comfortably. Residents using assistive technology may be unable to complete it.
Top issues, in plain English
- critical Form fields have no label — users can't tell what to type in them (WCAG 4.1.2 · 10 pages)
- serious Text is too low-contrast against its background to read comfortably (WCAG 1.4.3 · 35 pages)
- serious Links are distinguishable only by color, invisible to color-blind users (WCAG 1.4.1 · 5 pages)
- serious Links have no readable text — screen reader users can't tell where they lead (WCAG 2.4.4 · 3 pages)
- moderate The page blocks zooming, so low-vision users can't enlarge text (WCAG 1.4.4 · 61 pages)
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What WCAG 2.1 Level AA means for city government websites
With 2,772 residents, Garland falls under the DOJ's small-entity tier (under 50,000 population), which comes with the later of the two federal deadlines — but the same technical standard.
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.
Smaller entities sometimes assume they're exempt. They aren't — the later deadline is the only accommodation the rule makes for size. Services like business licensing, utility sign-up, and code enforcement requests all need to work for residents with disabilities.
Garland is a smaller community, 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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