The Department of Justice finalized ADA Title II rules in 2024 requiring all state and local government websites to meet WCAG 2.1 AA standards. For entities serving populations of 50,000 or more, the deadline is April 24, 2026. After that date, non-compliant government websites face federal enforcement action, lawsuits, and consent decrees — with no grace period.
Government websites and mobile apps must be fully accessible to residents with disabilities. This includes city websites, county portals, public transit sites, court systems, permitting systems, public library sites, parks and recreation registration, emergency alert systems, and every other digital service a government provides.
The standard is not aspirational — it's a federal mandate. Courts have already applied ADA requirements to government websites for years. The new Title II rule simply removes remaining ambiguity and sets explicit deadlines.
Once the deadline passes, law firms representing individuals with disabilities have clear legal grounds to file federal complaints against any non-compliant government entity. Illinois saw a 746% spike in ADA lawsuits in 2025 — this trend will accelerate when government sites become explicit targets.
Government agencies — especially those handling sensitive constituent data — need compliance solutions from U.S.-based vendors. Unlike AccessiBe (Israel) and UserWay (Israel), Compliapoint is headquartered in the United States. Your data never leaves American servers.
Government forms, ordinances, meeting minutes, and public notices as scanned image PDFs with no accessible text.
Links like 'Click Here', 'Read More', and 'Download' with no context — a major screen reader problem.
City council, board meetings, and public hearings posted as video without captions.
Aging government website designs with poor contrast ratios that haven't been updated in years.
Multi-language government sites without proper lang attributes — screen readers use the wrong language engine.
Large government portals with extensive navigation and no skip-to-content links.
A resident with low vision tries to submit a building permit application online. The PDF form is a scanned image — not fillable, not readable by screen readers. They must drive to City Hall, take time off work, and wait in line. This is an ADA violation under Title II.
Your city posts council meeting recordings to YouTube without captions. A deaf resident cannot follow local governance. Under Title II, all government video content must be captioned.
During a wildfire evacuation, your emergency alert website crashes for screen reader users due to unlabeled modal dialogs. A blind resident cannot access evacuation instructions. This is both an ADA violation and a life safety failure.
Over 70% of federal agency websites and a majority of state and local government portals run on Drupal. It's the dominant CMS in government for good reason — it handles complex content structures, role-based access, and multi-department publishing workflows that WordPress and other platforms aren't designed for.
But Drupal sites are just as vulnerable to WCAG violations as any other platform. Custom Twig templates, contributed modules, and legacy theme layers all introduce accessibility gaps that the DOJ Title II rule doesn't care about — the deadline applies regardless of what CMS you use.
Compliapoint performs full WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility audits on Drupal sites, WordPress sites, and any other platform that serves HTML. Our scanner evaluates your live pages against 50+ WCAG rules and produces a detailed remediation report your team or vendor can act on immediately.
If your agency uses Drupal, you don't need to switch platforms to get compliant. We audit what you already have and deliver actionable results — no new CMS migration, no overlay widget, no vendor lock-in.
Every fix Compliapoint makes is written directly into your site's code. No JavaScript overlay. No band-aid. Real fixes that courts recognize as genuine compliance effort.
Unlike AccessiBe and UserWay (both Israeli companies), Compliapoint is U.S.-based. Built for ADA, Section 508, and U.S. legal standards. Your data never leaves American servers.
We review your site and confirm scope before any work begins
Compliance takes time — scanning, fixing, testing, documenting. Every month you wait is a month closer to the deadline without protection. Start now for Source-level fixes that hold up in court.