Government
Accessibility operations for ADA Title II teams.
State and local government websites face a hard deadline. Parity helps digital service and contractor teams run the operational side — monitoring, prioritization, evidence collection, and reporting — without the cost of treating every scan finding as new work.
For a Title II–first narrative, read ADA Title II — what to do now. For a stakeholder-specific overview, see Solutions — state & local.
Who Title II applies to
ADA Title II reaches state and local government and the public-facing services they provide. That includes counties, cities, school districts, public universities, transit authorities, special districts, and most agencies that serve the public. If your organization touches one of these and publishes content on the web, your sites and the documents you publish are in scope.
What WCAG 2.1 AA actually means in practice
The web rule adopts WCAG 2.1 AA as the technical standard. In operations, that means every public-facing page and document — HTML and PDF — needs to meet criteria like color contrast, keyboard accessibility, alt text on meaningful imagery, form-field labels, predictable navigation, and many more. Automated scans can detect a meaningful slice of these criteria; the rest requires manual review by someone trained in accessibility evaluation.
Why automated scans aren't a full audit
Automated tools — Parity included — catch around 30–40% of WCAG failures depending on the page. They're excellent at finding the high-volume, machine-detectable issues: missing alt attributes, contrast failures, missing labels, heading order. They cannot judge whether your alt text is meaningful, whether your link text makes sense out of context, or whether the screen reader experience flows. Parity is designed to make the automated layer continuous and accountable so your manual review effort lands where it counts.
How Parity supports the operational side
- Continuous monitoring. Schedule scans across every site you own. Catch regressions when a CMS template changes or content goes live.
- Prioritization by root cause. Findings are deduplicated into fix surfaces — durable remediation units that span every page sharing a cause. Fix once, not once per page.
- Evidence-based reporting. Export PDF compliance reports, CSVs, and VPAT/conformance matrices with severity breakdowns and WCAG references — useful for legal, procurement, and constituents.
- Regression detection. When a fix breaks tomorrow, you find out before the next audit.
Who should be involved on your side
The teams we work with most often have: a digital services lead steering scope, an accessibility lead reviewing manual issues, contractors or in-house developers shipping remediation, and a procurement contact handling the contracting pathway. Parity slots alongside whichever of those roles your org has.
Frequently asked
Does Parity certify our WCAG conformance?
No. Parity supports accessibility operations and evidence-based remediation. It does not issue legal compliance attestations or replace expert manual testing. Your accessibility lead, auditor, or counsel makes final conformance claims.Does Parity check Section 508 specifically?
Parity checks WCAG 2.1 AA via axe-core. WCAG 2.1 AA coverage satisfies Section 508 references in federal procurement and reporting. There is no separate 508-only engine.How does Parity handle PDFs?
Parity discovers PDFs during crawls and runs structural heuristics — checking for tagged-PDF markers, document language, and image-alt indicators. This is discovery and triage, not PDF/UA validation.What about content in CMS templates that nobody on the team can edit?
Fix surfaces are typed by remediation context: template, content, media, or site-wide. Template-class issues route to developers; content-class issues route to content managers. Each role sees the work they actually own.
See it against your real sites.
We'll set up a procurement-ready demo using one or two of your actual URLs so you can see what Parity finds and how the workflow handles it.
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