Every Colorado public entity is past deadline. We make the fix fixed-price.
HB21-1110 has required WCAG 2.1 AA of every city, county, school district, and special district in Colorado since July 2025, and the federal Title II rule follows in 2027. The big accessibility vendors will not quote a town, and widgets do not work. We do the whole program at a price a small entity can actually approve.
Full-estate audit
Every page crawled, templates and forms tested by hand with a keyboard and screen reader, and the PDF library inventoried so you know exactly what you own and what is out of conformance.
Remediation of what you control
Templates, components, and top pages fixed in the code. Priority PDFs tagged. Third-party portals documented with vendor gap letters so the record shows what is yours and what is theirs.
Documentation for the record
A conformance report, a published accessibility statement, and a remediation log. When a complaint arrives, the clerk has an answer instead of a scramble.
Staff who can keep it that way
Training for the people who publish agendas, minutes, and notices, plus a monitoring routine, so next month's council packet does not undo the work.
What the law actually says.
HB21-1110 made inaccessible digital services a form of discrimination under Colorado law. Public entities had until July 1, 2024, extended to July 1, 2025 for those showing documented progress, to reach WCAG 2.1 AA. That grace period is over. A person who encounters a barrier can bring a claim, and the statute sets a $3,500 penalty per violation, paid to them.
The federal Title II web rule adds the same standard nationwide. Entities under 50,000 population, which is most Colorado towns and every special district, have until April 2027 after the DOJ's one-year extension, and larger entities a year earlier. Whichever clock you watch, the work is the same, and it is measured page by page.
Sized for a town, not a metro.
The big accessibility firms quote six-figure programs to large cities and universities, so a town of 8,000 or a library district gets a widget salesman instead. Our engagements are fixed price and sized to your estate. Most town, district, and library programs land between $5,000 and $40,000 depending on page count and the PDF library. Larger estates are quoted as a whole up front, and we write the scope so it fits a small-purchase threshold or a cooperative purchasing vehicle where one applies.
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Common questions.
We are a small district with no IT staff. Is this realistic?
Yes. The engagement is designed for entities with zero accessibility staff. We do the audit and remediation, and we train the two or three people who publish content so the site stays conformant. You do not need to learn WCAG.
Our website vendor says the platform is already accessible.
The platform may be. Your content, PDFs, embedded forms, and third-party portals are usually where the failures live, and the entity, not the vendor, holds the liability. The audit separates what the vendor owes you from what needs fixing on your side.
Do we need a formal procurement?
Often not. We scope programs so they fit under small-purchase thresholds where possible, and we can work through cooperative purchasing agreements. Blueprints, the $99 written plan, gives you the scope and price you need to route it through your process either way.
Past deadline and no accessibility staff?
Blueprints gives your entity a written read on where it stands under HB21-1110 and Title II, and a fixed price to fix it. $99.