Digital accessibility for K-12 districts, public libraries, and higher education
The ADA Title II rule requires your websites, documents, portals, and learning systems to meet WCAG 2.1 AA. Most of that exposure sits in the systems your students and patrons use every day, not on your public homepage. We help you find the gaps and fix what matters, so the people you serve can actually use what you offer.
Schedule a 15-minute conversationADA Title II
The rule is set. The question is which date applies to you.
Many school districts and most public universities serve populations over 50,000, which puts them on the earlier 2027 date. Libraries depend on their governance. Which one is yours is worth a short conversation.
Getting started
Where most start: a needs assessment
It’s the entry point we recommend. A holistic review of your public-facing assets, your internal systems (LMS, portals, documents, licensed platforms), the technology you run, and the people and process behind it.
What you get
A high-level evaluation
of each area
A risk analysis
across your whole footprint
Strategic recommendations
prioritized by what matters
All in one plain-language report you can take to your board or administration.
A free vendor scan
Scans your website automatically. It can’t see your LMS, your documents, your licensed databases, or the staff workflows behind them, and it’s built to sell you a subscription.
A Dirigo needs assessment
Looks at the whole picture: public and internal systems, the technology you run, and the people and process behind it. Practitioner-led, with risk-based recommendations you can act on.
No pressure. We’ll tell you what a sensible first step looks like for an institution your size.
The full service set
What the assessment leads to
The assessment points to what you actually need. Most institutions draw on some mix of these.
Audits and evaluations
Manual, assistive-technology testing of a site, LMS, portal, or document set against WCAG 2.1 AA, with findings you can act on.
PDF and document remediation
We fix inaccessible PDFs to WCAG 2.1 AA and help you keep new ones accessible from the start.
Training
For the teachers, faculty, and library staff who publish content. The root-cause fix, not just the backlog.
Procurement and governance
We review vendor accessibility claims (VPATs) and write accessibility into your RFPs before you sign.
Consulting and program management
Ongoing strategy, policy, and a practitioner you can call when a new question comes up.
FAQ
Questions we hear
Our web or LMS vendor handles accessibility. Isn’t that their job?
Hold your vendors to it, but the legal obligation runs to your institution, not them. If a student files an OCR complaint about your LMS, OCR looks at you. And a vendor’s VPAT is a self-reported claim, so we help you check it before you sign.
We ran a scan and it came back clean. Are we covered?
Not necessarily. Automated tools catch only a portion of WCAG failures, mostly rule-based ones like missing alt text and low contrast. They can’t tell you whether a form works by keyboard, a PDF reads with a screen reader, or a portal is usable end to end.
We have years of PDFs and content. Where do we start?
With a clear picture of what carries the most risk. A scanned 2009 menu is not an IEP a parent is trying to read with a screen reader. We help you prioritize the highest-traffic and most consequential items first, then work the backlog while you stop adding to it.
Is OCR really enforcing this?
Yes. Digital accessibility in education has been a steady part of OCR’s caseload, with named, public resolutions over inaccessible sites, PDFs, and uncaptioned video. A complaint from one person is enough to open an investigation, so not having one yet is an opportunity to get ahead, not evidence you’re compliant.
We’re a small district or library with no budget this cycle.
That’s a real constraint, and the needs assessment is the lowest-cost, highest-value first step, because it tells you what you actually need before you spend. Some of the highest-impact fixes, like a staff training session, better procurement language, or the top few pages, cost very little.
Get started
Let’s figure out where you stand
Fifteen minutes is enough to tell you your likely deadline, make sense of an OCR concern, or get a realistic read on what this looks like for an institution your size.
We’re accessibility practitioners, happy to talk through whatever you’re wondering about.