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To: Town Commission
From: Cathy DeKarz, Management Analyst
Date: 1/19/2021
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Discussion of Draft Digital ADA Compliance Policy
Summary:
Over the past three years, staff has been working to understand, analyze, and remediate the Town of Belleair's website and associated content to ADA compliance standards. As the Town's Consent Decree from the Tampa Division District Court expires on August 29, 2021, staff is seeking feedback from the Commission on several large decisions that will affect the presented Digital ADA Compliance Policy.
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Previous Commission Action: As a part of the strategic planning process, the Commission identified "Ensure digital communications are accessible per ADA WCAG 2.1 AA standards" as an objective to be completed between 2020 and 2023.
Background/Problem Discussion: See attached and below.
Expenditure Challenges Though some compliance tasks will not incur any significant additional costs to the Town, several items do present expenditure challenges.
* Third-party accessibility checker: A digital tool integrated with a website that automatically flags compliance gaps and instructs users on compliance solutions.
The Town of Belleair partnered with Monsido in September of 2020 to assist with the digital ADA compliance of our website. Since onboarding Monsido, site-wide compliance has risen from roughly 67% compliance to almost 84%.
Annual cost: $3,410
No Commission action required
* External PDF remediation: Most PDFs uploaded directly to the Town's website can be remediated for ADA compliance in-house. However, some larger documents may require external remediation.
If external remediation is required, the Town will benefit from a reduced pricing structure for document remediation through CommonLook (these savings are available to all Monsido customers).
Remediation cost per page: $5 - $15
Known pages for remediation: ~ 460 pages x $5/...
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