Accessibility Testing in Missouri, Done by Hand

The rules in force in Missouri

Which date applies to a public body in Missouri

This is the part public bodies get wrong most often, and it is worth two minutes. The Title II rule sorts you by population, and the Department of Justice says in as many words that your population is not the number of people you serve. Four rules decide which figure is yours.

• You have a Census population of your own. Use it. A city, a county, a state.
• You are an independent school district. Use your figure from the 2022 Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates instead, not the district's enrollment.
• You have no population of your own. Take the Census population of the government you are part of. A library branch, a parks department, a transit agency, a public university. This is the one that moves people into the earlier tier, and it is why the figure above matters to more than the local government itself.
• You are a special district government. There is no Census population to count, and your date is April 26, 2028.

The DOJ's own example is the one that lands. A state university with 40,000 students, sitting inside a state of six million, has a population of six million and the earlier date. The student count never came into it. The full ADA page works through the rest, including the five kinds of content that are exempt and the cost defense and who has to prove it.

Take federal health money as well and a second clock runs beside this one, because the HHS Section 504 rule counts employees rather than population. We audit against both dates at once for government bodies and school districts.

What we test, and how, in Missouri

Start with the honest part. The audit is the same in Missouri as it is anywhere, because WCAG does not change at a border. What changes is which law is watching and what it costs to fail, and the section above settles that.

The work itself runs in three passes. A machine finds the failures a machine can prove. A human works every one of the 55 A and AA rules by hand. Then a professional blind screen-reader user opens your real journeys and tries to finish them, the way your customers would. Every finding arrives with its screenshot and the fix that closes it, drawn from our free library of 432 guides.

None of the reference sits behind a form, either. Every number below counts pages you can go and read right now, free, whether you ever buy an audit or not.

A and AA rules we check

55

Techniques and failures

432

ACT test rules

90

ARIA roles documented

94

Terms in the glossary

131

Checklists to work from

9

• A free 10-page scan that finds what a machine can prove, before you spend anything
• Paid audits at fixed prices on the pricing page, $499 for 10 pages in 5 business days, $1,499 for 25 in 10
• The exact deliverable, free to read, as the sample report

What owners in Missouri want to know first