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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II – Website Compliance

Accessibility at the UW

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title II is a set of regulations that the federal government passed to “ensure that people with disabilities can fully participate in all aspects of civic life.” These regulations apply to all forms of communication produced by state and local government entities, which includes the University of Washington. Websites produced at the University of Washington must comply with the Web and Mobile Applications Accessibility Rule by April 24, 2026.

How Can I Ensure that My Website is in Compliance with ADA Title II?

The first step you can take is to test your website for elements and structure within the code that fall out of compliance. The UW provides several resources and tools for testing your website, one of which is DubBot, a free crawler that can check your website periodically and send you a report that includes a visual overview of your website’s accessibility rating.

How Can Creative Communications Help Me Meet the Requirements?

Creative Communications designs and builds websites across campus. Because our experts know code and know these new regulations and guidelines, we can help you test your website and get it into compliance. Here is what we can assist you with:

  • Testing. We’ll install and configure DubBot to crawl your site and test for content and structure out of compliance. We also use browser-based tools to drill down to specific elements, such tables, infographics and other visuals to isolate and document issues that may repeat throughout your site.
  • Exclusions. We’ll work with you to determine what content on your site is archival material and can be labeled as such to reduce your exposure to non-compliance. Archived materials are not subject to the regulations. That PDF that you uploaded in 2005 and is still -somewhere- on your website may fall into this category. Some areas of your website, for example, your intranet which is behind a password and targets a specific or small audience may also not be subject to the rules.
  • Remediation. Once we have determined all the problem content and structure areas, and eliminated archival materials, we can systematically go through your site and apply fixes. In many cases, there are specific and repeated problems that can be found and corrected quickly. In some circumstances, we may suggest rebuilding elements or individual pages.

If you are unsure how to procced, just need some quick advice, or want to move forward to ensure your website is in compliance contact one of our Account Managers to arrange a consultation with our web developers.