Is Telluride's Website Ready for the ADA Title II Deadline?
Did you know the deadline already changed?
Here's something many local officials missed: the original compliance deadline has already moved once. On April 20, 2026, the Department of Justice issued an Interim Final Rule pushing each deadline back a full year — which means Telluride's date is now April 26, 2028. A one-time extension is a grace period, not a reprieve. There is no indication another one is coming.
Telluride's latest accessibility scan
Overall compliance risk: Moderate — page-level accessibility failures across the site
Top issues, in plain English
- critical Composite controls are missing required child elements for assistive tech (WCAG 1.3.1 · 106 pages)
- critical Accessibility attributes point at elements that don't exist (WCAG 4.1.2 · 8 pages)
- critical ARIA attributes must conform to valid names (WCAG 4.1.2 · 3 pages)
- critical Images have no text alternative, so screen readers can't describe them (WCAG 1.1.1 · 2 pages)
- critical Buttons have no accessible name — assistive tech users can't tell what they do (WCAG 4.1.2 · 2 pages)
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What WCAG 2.1 Level AA means for town government websites
With 2,486 residents, Telluride falls under the DOJ's small-entity tier (under 50,000 population), which comes with the later of the two federal deadlines — but the same technical standard.
The rule points to WCAG 2.1 Level AA — a widely used technical checklist. Stripped of jargon, it asks simple questions: can a blind resident using a screen reader pay a bill on your site? Can someone who can't use a mouse complete a form with just a keyboard? Is the text readable against its background?
Smaller entities sometimes assume they're exempt. They aren't — the later deadline is the only accommodation the rule makes for size. Services like utility bill payment, permit applications, and public meeting agendas all need to work for residents with disabilities.
Telluride is a smaller community, and its website is the front door for utility bill payment, permit applications, and public meeting agendas. Under ADA Title II, that front door has to work for every resident.
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