WCAG 2.1 AA compliance for state and local governments.
The DOJ Title II rule applies to state and local governments, public schools, universities, and special districts. Scan your site, see what's required, and remediate before April 2027.
Who's covered
If your organization fits any of these descriptions, the rule applies to your digital content.
- State and local governments
- County and municipal websites
- Public schools and K-12 districts
- Public universities and community colleges
- Special districts (transit, water, library, housing, MPOs)
- Tribal governments (Title II applies via separate authority)
Title II in plain language.
U.S. Department of Justice — 28 CFR Part 35
DOJ Title II ADA Web Accessibility Rule
Applies to web content and mobile applications provided by state and local government entities, including content provided through contractual or licensing arrangements with third parties.
Current compliance deadlines
Extended from original April 26, 2027 dates via Interim Final Rule, 91 Fed. Reg. 20902.
From "where do we stand?" to "here's the plan."
Most government accessibility teams aren't underfunded — they're under-resourced for the scale of the problem. A typical county website has 300 pages and a 500-document PDF library. Manual remediation at $7–$11 per page would cost six figures and take a year. OctoComply does the parts that don't require human judgment automatically, so your team can focus on the parts that do.
Starting from where you are
Most counties, cities, and MPOs don't have a baseline accessibility scan of their public-facing website and document library. You can't plan remediation if you don't know the gap. OctoComply auto-discovers your domain on signup: pages, PDFs, social channels, and CMS platform. Then a 10-page scan against WCAG 2.1 AA shows you immediately where you stand — at no cost, no credit card.
From the baseline, the platform shows you which issues are template (a single fix on the CMS resolves them across the whole site) and which are content (each page needs its own attention). For most government sites, 80% of the issues live in 20% of the templates. Knowing that changes the remediation strategy.
The transportation-plan PDF backlog
Metropolitan Planning Organizations and transportation agencies produce documents that don't fit standard remediation tooling. A Long Range Transportation Plan is 200–600 pages with complex tables, project maps, financial projections, and multi-column public-engagement sections. Auto-taggers fail on these. Manual remediation takes months and costs tens of thousands of dollars per document.
OctoComply's Document Remediation Service extracts content with Azure Document Intelligence, restructures it with Claude into a clean HTML version, and validates conformance with axe-core. The output is a real, properly-structured document — readable on a phone, navigable by keyboard, intelligible to a screen reader. We did this for Broward MPO's TIP and Palm Beach TPA's Vision 2050. The same pipeline handles your documents.
- •Tier 1: Technical compliance — automated remediation with confidence scoring, published with notice if ambiguous
- •Tier 2: Complex restructuring — tables flattened into narrative + simplified tables, charts described, maps annotated
- •Pre-deadline archive: docs you don't need to actively remediate get classified and quarantined per the rule's archive exception
Documenting good-faith effort
DOJ enforcement doesn't expect instant perfection — it expects a documented, credible compliance program. The Title II final rule cites good-faith effort as a key factor in evaluating compliance: a completed audit, a prioritized remediation plan, an active accommodation request process, and ongoing monitoring.
Every interaction with OctoComply is logged — scans run, issues found, accommodation requests received and responded to, documents remediated, certificates issued. When a complaint lands or a federal reviewer asks, you don't scramble. You export the record.
Built for small teams
Most government accessibility programs are run by one or two people. The platform is designed around that reality: zero IT setup (the widget is a single script tag, scans run from the dashboard, no plugin installation required for core features); plain-language explanations of every WCAG issue with fix instructions for non-developers; weekly monitoring that emails alerts only when something changes.
Two MPOs in Florida are running production scans against OctoComply today. We're adding new clients monthly across Florida and nationally. The price is structured to be defensible against procurement scrutiny — full enterprise pricing under $25,000 a year for most entities, free tier covers entities with minimal scope.
Government teams using OctoComply.
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See where your site stands.
A scan takes minutes. You'll see exactly which pages and documents need work — and what remediation looks like for government organizations.