Is Lehi's Website Ready for the ADA Title II Deadline?

Compliance deadlineApril 26, 2027about 7 months away
Population (2024 est.)93,446≥ 50,000 — first-wave tier
ClassificationMunicipal government (general purpose)Utah
Required standardWCAG 2.1 Level AADOJ-adopted standard

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If your compliance calendar still shows the original date, it's out of date: on April 20, 2026 the DOJ issued an Interim Final Rule that moved every ADA Title II web deadline back one year.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 Lehi, the operative date is now April 26, 2027. The public comment period closed June 22, 2026 — the deadline is set, and the clock is running.

Lehi's latest accessibility scan

Overall compliance risk: High — 1 citizen service residents with disabilities may be unable to use

95/ 100
Page score
28/ 100
Document score

www.lehi-ut.gov · 120 pages scanned · July 17, 2026

📖 Reading level: grade 9.5 average — above the grade-8 plain-language target for government content.

📄 PDFs found: 229, failing basic accessibility checks: 165 — documents are covered by the same DOJ rule as pages

⚠ 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 ARIA accessibility attributes are used incorrectly and may mislead screen readers (WCAG 4.1.2 · 2 pages)
  • critical Composite controls are missing required child elements for assistive tech (WCAG 1.3.1 · 1 page)
  • serious Elements presented as images have no text alternative (WCAG 1.1.1 · 71 pages)
  • serious Links have no readable text — screen reader users can't tell where they lead (WCAG 2.4.4 · 7 pages)
  • serious Text is too low-contrast against its background to read comfortably (WCAG 1.4.3 · 5 pages)
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What WCAG 2.1 Level AA means for city government websites

Because Lehi serves 93,446 residents — above the DOJ's 50,000-person threshold — it falls in the first enforcement wave, with the earlier of the two federal deadlines.

The rule points to WCAG 2.1 Level AA — a widely used technical checklist. Stripped of jargon, it asks simple questions: can a blind resident using a screen reader pay a bill on your site? Can someone who can't use a mouse complete a form with just a keyboard? Is the text readable against its background?

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.

Lehi 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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