Districts in three states already signed. Yours has a deadline.
Illinois. California. New York. School districts signed federal resolution agreements over their websites years before the DOJ set a hard date. The documents are public, the pattern is consistent, and the fix is more manageable than most leaders expect.
About a minute, no email required to see results. Just your district's actual starting point.
Wisconsin district? Read the Wisconsin edition, with your state's own enforcement record.
Which deadline applies to your district?
Deadlines reflect the DOJ's April 2026 extension of the Title II web rule. Population is generally determined from federal estimates for your district's service area. These are compliance deadlines, not target dates.
Three districts, three states, one pattern
Each case below is a real OCR website-accessibility matter with the federal document linked. Different districts, nearly identical obligations.
Community High School District 128
A complaint alleged the district's website contained barriers denying people with disabilities equal participation. The district signed: accessibility policies for all new content, vendor-claim verification, annual documented training, and OCR monitoring with a 60-day cure clause.
Benicia Unified School District
The full package: an OCR-approved outside auditor, an audit covering every page including intranet sites, a corrective action plan on an 18-month clock, an accessibility notice linked from every page, annual training, and reports to OCR every six months.
Rye City School District
OCR investigators examined specific pages and documented specific failures, then the district signed the standard package: auditor, 18-month corrective plan, public notice, and training. The federal letter names every page and every barrier.
What federal investigators actually looked at
From the Rye City resolution letter: the exact pages OCR examined, and the exact barriers it found. Notice the pattern: they check the pages families depend on.
Pages OCR examined
- District homepage
- Special education pages
- School calendar
- Food service site
- English language learners pages
- Curriculum & assessments
- Student forms & regulations
Every one of these is detectable, fixable, and preventable with publishing standards. None of them requires a seven-figure rebuild to correct.
Enforcement comes from three directions
The rule does not depend on any one agency's priorities. All three channels are open today.
OCR complaints
Free to file, no lawyer required, from anywhere in the country. One advocate generated ~2,400 K-12 complaints in two years, and more than 1,000 districts signed agreements.
DOJ enforcement
The Title II web rule makes WCAG 2.1 AA the enforceable federal standard after your deadline. Seattle Public Schools operated under a DOJ consent decree years before the rule existed.
Private lawsuits
Families can sue in federal court whether or not OCR acts, as OCR itself reminded Rye City in writing. Web accessibility suits keep climbing year over year.
Want the rules without the pitch? Start there.
The fastest way to get your board, IT director and web vendor on the same page is a resource none of them has to be sold on. These are free, plain-language, and built to be forwarded.
TitleII.org
The Title II web rule in plain language, with the deadline tracker. The reference your board can read in ten minutes.
Free · No signup ✅Title II Checklist
Interactive checklist with Plain Language and IT Specialist modes. Print it, assign it, track it.
Free · Interactive 🧭Learning Center
The 7-step journey from Learn to Train, with pass-along actions for every role in the district.
Free · Built to shareForward them internally. When your team is ready for a baseline, the free scan is one click away.
Five steps, sized to a district budget cycle
Districts that start now spread the work across budget years. Districts that wait do the same work on a federal clock.
Free scan
Machine-detectable issues on your homepage, in about a minute.
Readiness review
Sites, documents, platforms and vendors inventoried into one prioritized plan.
Remediation
Templates, high-traffic pages, PDFs and captions, human-verified.
Training
Publishing standards for office staff, communications, teachers and IT.
Monitoring
Continuous scanning and progress records that document good faith.
Get your district's baseline.
Free automated scan of your district homepage against WCAG. Results in about a minute, prioritized in plain language.
No email required to see results. Prefer to talk first? Request a Readiness Review.
What district leaders ask us
Which deadline applies to our district?
Is this actually being enforced, given all the federal changes?
What does OCR actually check?
Does Google Classroom or Canvas content count?
Do we have to rebuild the whole website?
Our web vendor says accessibility is handled. Are we covered?
What does it cost?
What should we do first?
Public records cited on this page
- Resolution Agreement, Community High School District 128 (IL), OCR 05-17-1134 (ed.gov)
- Resolution Agreement, Benicia Unified School District (CA), OCR 09-17-1238 (ed.gov)
- Resolution Letter, Rye City School District (NY), OCR 02-16-1475 (ed.gov)
- ADA.gov, "First Steps Toward Complying with the Title II Web Rule"
- The 74, on the ~2,400 OCR complaints and 1,000+ resolution agreements
- K-12 Dive, DOJ deadline extension to 2027/2028
Access is a civil right. Every family deserves a district website that welcomes them.
That is the whole company. The tools, the audits, the training and the deadlines all serve it. Our nonprofit mission lives at AX4E.org; the work happens here.
Other districts signed on OCR's schedule. Start on yours.
A one-minute baseline today beats an 18-month federal corrective action plan tomorrow.
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