ADA website compliance

Every Kentucky city, county, and special district has a web accessibility deadline. Here is the affordable way to meet it.

The Department of Justice now requires state and local government websites to meet the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard. That includes small cities, fiscal courts, water and fire districts, libraries, health departments, and school districts. Prodigy27 modernizes the site you already have for a flat rate, makes your documents and meeting videos accessible, and keeps it all compliant month after month.

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Who this covers
  • Cities and towns of any size
  • Counties and fiscal courts
  • Water, sewer, fire, and ambulance districts
  • Libraries, health departments, school districts
  • Private businesses that want to stay out of court
The deadlines

Two dates every clerk and board member should know.

The rule is the ADA Title II web accessibility regulation from the U.S. Department of Justice. It applies to websites, mobile apps, online forms, PDFs, and video that a public entity puts in front of the public. The standard it requires is WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

The dates below reflect the Department of Justice's April 2026 update. That extension is being challenged in court, so planning for the earlier end is the safe choice. Budgets for the next fiscal year are being set now, and this belongs in them.

April 26, 2027 Population of 50,000 or more

Larger cities and counties, and any entity serving that many people.

April 26, 2028 Under 50,000, and all special districts

Nearly every city and county in Southeast Kentucky, plus every water, fire, library, and health district regardless of size.

Standard required: WCAG 2.1 Level AA. The duty to be accessible under the ADA already applies today; the dates are when the specific technical standard becomes enforceable.

What you get

Modernized for a flat rate, then kept compliant

Most small-government sites were built years ago by a vendor who is no longer around, or they live on a Facebook page. Starting over costs what the big municipal vendors charge, which small towns cannot carry. Prodigy27 takes the other route.

Free accessibility check

A scan of your current site and a plain-English summary of what fails, what it would take to fix, and a flat price. No charge, no obligation.

Flat-rate modernization

Your existing site rebuilt on current tools: the same content and address, now fast, mobile-friendly, and meeting WCAG 2.1 AA. One number a board can approve.

Accessible documents

Agendas, minutes, ordinances, budgets, and forms remediated so screen readers can use them, with a process for new ones going forward.

Captions and transcripts

Accurate captions and transcripts for council and board meeting recordings, posted alongside the video.

Monthly scans and a report

Every page checked automatically each month, new problems fixed, and a dated conformance report you can keep on file.

The essentials, done right

Agendas and notices, ordinances, public records requests, staff directory, emergency banner, and payments if you take them. Staff can update it all themselves.

A word about widgets

An accessibility overlay is not compliance.

You will be offered a "one line of code" accessibility widget. They are inexpensive, and they do not work. The Department of Justice rule does not accept them, the people who rely on screen readers largely disable them, and about one in four organizations sued over web accessibility in 2025 already had one installed. Some of those suits named the widget itself.

Real compliance means fixing the website, the documents, and the video. It is more work up front, and it is the only version that holds up when someone checks.

Private business? This applies to you too.

More than 5,000 website accessibility lawsuits were filed against businesses in 2025, most of them against small and mid-size companies with online stores, menus, or booking. The same fixes and the same monthly scanning keep you out of that pile, at a scale that fits a small business budget. It can be added to any Prodigy27 website or done on a site you already have.

Questions

Questions from clerks, boards, and business owners

Under the Department of Justice's ADA Title II web rule, as updated in April 2026, state and local governments serving 50,000 or more people must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 26, 2027. Smaller cities and counties, and every special district regardless of size, have until April 26, 2028. The extension is being challenged in court, so the dates could move earlier again. Either way, the general obligation to be accessible already applies today.

It is the technical standard the rule points to. In plain terms: text that screen readers can read, enough contrast to see, everything usable by keyboard, captions on video, descriptions on images, and forms and documents that work for people who cannot use a mouse or see a screen. It covers your website, the PDFs on it, your meeting videos, and any app or portal the public uses.

No, and that is the most important thing to know. Overlay widgets do not make a site compliant, the rule does not accept them as a fix, and roughly one in four businesses sued over web accessibility in 2025 already had one installed. Real compliance means fixing the site itself, which is what Prodigy27 does.

Usually not. Most existing city and district sites can be modernized: the content and address you already have, rebuilt on current tools so it is fast, works on phones, and meets the standard. That is done for a flat rate so a clerk or board can approve one number.

They are covered by the rule too, and they are usually the biggest job. Prodigy27 remediates agendas, minutes, ordinances, and forms so they read correctly, and adds accurate captions and transcripts to meeting videos. Newer tools make this far less expensive than it was even two years ago.

Every page is scanned automatically each month, anything new that slipped in gets fixed, and you receive a short conformance report you can keep on file. If a complaint or records request ever comes, you can show a dated history of the site being checked and maintained.

The 2028 deadline is for governments, but private businesses are sued over website accessibility every day under Title III. More than 5,000 of those lawsuits were filed in 2025, most against small and mid-size companies with online stores or booking. The same fixes and monthly scanning protect you, at a smaller scale.

A flat fee for the modernization and a flat monthly fee for hosting and scanning, both in writing before any work starts. For most small cities and districts the total falls well under the threshold that would require a formal bid, so a clerk or board can approve it directly. Prodigy27 is a Kentucky LLC and provides a W-9 and references.

Start with a free check of your current site.

Send your website address. You get a plain-English summary of what fails, what it would take to fix, and a flat price, usually within two business days.

Request the free check (606) 391-8770