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A K-12 District Audit, Because Title II Gave You a Date
For the district that wants parents with disabilities checking grades, reading menus, and following board meetings like any other parent, with DOJ's dates already on the calendar.
What We Keep Finding
A district website is really a parents' website. The portal holds the grades and the bus route, the lunch menu is a PDF, and the board minutes decide next year's boundaries. Some of those parents are blind, some are Deaf, some drive a keyboard instead of a mouse, and every one of them was handed the same login as everybody else.
Title II now puts a standard and a date on that. WCAG 2.1 Level AA, by April 26, 2027 for public entities whose population is 50,000 or more and April 26, 2028 for smaller ones. Both dates moved back a year in April 2026, so district guidance written before then names 2026 and 2027 and is simply out of date. The part worth quoting at your vendors is how the rule handles them. It exempts third-party content only where that content was not posted under a contract with you. Your grade portal, your menu system and your agenda platform are all contracted, so all three are yours to answer for, and that one sentence is what gets a vendor ticket taken seriously.
The rule gives something back too, and almost nobody has read that part. Conventional electronic documents posted before your compliance date, meaning the word processing files, the presentations, the spreadsheets and the PDFs, are exempt. A decade of board minutes is a smaller job than your team fears. What the exemption never touches is anything you publish from your date onward, which is where an audit should be pointing anyway. One thing to check with your business office while you are at it. A district taking HHS money, through Head Start or school-based Medicaid billing, picks up a second clock under Section 504 on the same technical standard. It lands about two weeks after the Title II one, so Title II is still the date that governs you.
What We Check
- Sign in to the parent portal and read a report card with a screen reader
- Test lunch menus, calendars, and closure alerts for a route that does not need eyes
- Read board agendas and minutes, the PDF library every district keeps
- Complete enrollment and permission forms by keyboard alone
- Sample school sites across the district for the template failures that repeat
- Mark each finding against the Title II baseline, dated to your own deadline
What You Get
Every service on this site runs the same three-pass engine: an automated scan, an expert review of all 55 WCAG 2.2 A and AA rules, and a hands-on session with a professional blind screen-reader user. You get one report with every finding screenshotted, ranked by user impact, and linked to its fix. Your team fixes, we verify: the re-audit is half price within 3 months.
The format is not a mystery either. Read the sample report before you spend anything.
The Honest Limit
One honest limit, and it is the one every superintendent asks about. A district estate runs to dozens of school sites plus the vendor portals bolted onto them, and no audit opens every page of that. We sample by template and by traffic, which is how you find the one fix that repairs forty school sites at once, and the report says exactly what was sampled. What it can never do is produce a conformance claim for the district. Conformance in the standard is defined for a web page rather than for a website, and W3C's own evaluation method says a sample cannot carry a claim for a whole estate. What you get is dated evidence in priority order, which is what a board update and a vendor ticket both actually need.
What It Costs
Rapid Audit: $499, up to 10 pages you pick, report in 5 business days. Standard Audit: $1,499, up to 25 pages in 10 business days. Flat rates, no discovery calls, and a real blind screen-reader user on every engagement. Pick your pages. We bring the humans.
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