ADA website compliance check

Federal law gives every Ohio library, school district and park district a dated deadline to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Enter your address to see your own deadline and what an automated read of your site finds today.

Free, no account. Reads up to 20 pages, obeys your robots.txt, and changes nothing.

What the rule requires, and which of the two dates applies to you

Common questions

The U.S. Department of Justice rule at 28 CFR Part 35 applies to state and local government entities, which includes public libraries, school districts and park districts. It requires web content to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA by a dated deadline that depends on population.

26 April 2027 for a public entity with a total population of 50,000 or more, and 26 April 2028 for one under 50,000 or for any special district government. An Ohio school district uses its own population from the Census Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, not the population of a city with the same name.

No, and the report says so plainly. Automated testing of any kind finds roughly a third of the barriers WCAG describes. Color contrast and keyboard focus are not checked here at all, and nothing that needs human judgment can be.

No. The full result and the report are free with no signup. An email address raises the number of sites you can check in a day, and that is the only thing it does.

It reads pages the way a search engine does, obeys your robots.txt, and changes nothing. It reads up to 20 pages and samples the PDFs they link to.