Access Brief

This episode is a reading of Chapter 2 from Real. Relevant. Required.: A Practitioner's Guide to ADA Title II Digital Accessibility for State and Local Government by Becky Rehorn. The DOJ's April 2024 final rule is 90 pages long. Most practitioners will never read it. Chapter 2 breaks down what the rule actually requires in plain language: the technical standard (WCAG 2.1 Level AA), the...

This episode is a reading of Chapter 1 from Real. Relevant. Required.: A Practitioner's Guide to ADA Title II Digital Accessibility for State and Local Government by Becky Rehorn. The ADA was signed into law in 1990 and required state and local governments to provide equal access to their programs and services. What it did not do, and could not have done, was specify what equal access looked...

In this special episode, Becky Rehorn introduces her new book, Real. Relevant. Required.: A Practitioner's Guide to ADA Title II Digital Accessibility for State and Local Government. The book is written for the people within public agencies and AEC firms who are responsible for making digital accessibility happen, but have not had a resource on how their work is actually done. It covers what...

Most content on a state DOT’s website was not produced by the agency. It was produced by AEC consulting firms under contracts written before the ADA Title II mandate existed. Those firms deliver exactly what was asked for, but what was asked for is no longer sufficient. In this episode, Becky Rehorn explains why assigning digital accessibility to IT misses the structural gap, why the deadline exte...

The DOJ extended the ADA Title II compliance deadlines. But there is another federal rule requiring the same WCAG 2.1 AA standard, and its deadline did not move. In this episode, Becky Rehorn breaks down the HHS Section 504 final rule, who it covers, how it overlaps with ADA Title II, and why the May 11, 2026 deadline still matters for any organization receiving federal financial assistance from t...

Most PDFs on state DOT websites do not meet WCAG 2.1 AA. The documents were produced in Word or InDesign, exported, and posted without an accessibility review. Now they are in scope under the DOJ’s ADA Title II final rule. In this episode, Becky Rehorn walks through the five PDF failures that appear most often in transportation agency documents: missing tag structure, visual formatting used in pla...

On April 20, 2026, the Department of Justice published an Interim Final Rule extending the ADA Title II digital accessibility compliance deadlines by one year. Large entities now have until April 26, 2027. Smaller entities and special districts have until April 26, 2028. In this episode, AOG founder Becky Rehorn breaks down what changed, what did not, and what public agencies and AEC firms should...