Colorado officials said their state will become the first in the country to require that all state and local government websites meet a set of yet-to-be-determined accessibility standards.
The requirement, signed into law by Gov. Jared Polis last month, directs each state agency to submit a plan to make their websites accessible within the next 12 months, after which the state’s IT office will work with them to ensure they’re compliant with the new standards. The state’s chief information officer, currently Tony Neal-Graves, will be tasked with consulting people with disabilities and agency heads to figure out what the state’s accessibility standards should look like. International standards, like those developed by the World Wide Web Consortium will be used as guidelines, according to the law.
