Is Taylorsville'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If your compliance calendar still shows the original date, it's out of date: on April 20, 2026 the DOJ issued an Interim Final Rule that moved every ADA Title II web deadline back one year.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 Taylorsville, 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.
Has Taylorsville's website been checked yet?
We haven't published an accessibility scan for Taylorsville yet. Run one now — we'll crawl the site, test every page against WCAG 2.1 Level AA, score reading level, inventory PDFs, and flag any citizen service that residents with disabilities can't reach.
What WCAG 2.1 Level AA means for city government websites
Because Taylorsville serves 57,819 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.
Taylorsville 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.
Don't find out about problems from a demand letter
A11yCheck monitors Taylorsville's website continuously and sends a plain-English weekly digest — no technical background needed.