KnightByrd Tech LLC · independent measurement
American local government is not ready for the ADA Title II deadlines
Every US city, county and special district holding a .gov domain — taken from the CISA registry rather than any list of ours — with its homepage tested against WCAG 2.1 Level A and AA, the standard the Title II rule points to.
Look up any government
A .gov domain, or the name of a city or county. Free, no account.
Two deadlines, not one
The Interim Final Rule of 20 April 2026 set 26 April 2027 for public entities with a total population of 50,000 or more, and 26 April 2028 for entities under 50,000 and for all special district governments. Remediation, document cleanup and vendor contracts routinely run 12 to 18 months, so the 2027 cohort is already inside the window.
What this does not show
- Homepage only. One page per entity. A site can pass its homepage and fail everywhere behind it.
- Automated only. Automated testing catches roughly a third of real accessibility problems. It cannot judge whether alt text is meaningful, whether a form works with a screen reader, or whether a keyboard user can escape a menu. Passing every automated check is not compliance.
- Entities that did not answer are counted separately, never folded into either side of a ratio.
Every figure is a floor rather than a verdict. If you think a result is wrong, say so and it will be re-run — corrections are welcome and the method is meant to be checked.
Working on this professionally?
The per-entity data is free to any government asking about itself, and free to any journalist. For firms working the deadline commercially, the state files are ranked by severity, tagged with the platform each entity runs, and split by which deadline applies.
David A. Thompson, KnightByrd Tech LLC — davidat@knightbyrd.com. No vendor commissioned or paid for this measurement, and no rating is for sale.