Montague WebWorks Runs ADA / WAIS Reviews on Municipal Customer Sites

With the deadline for small towns still over a year away, MWW strives to get it done by April of this year

In the past few weeks, several town admins have contacted us about their website's ADA Compliance and an apparent looming deadline. In reality, the deadline is next year - 2027 - for towns with less than 50k residents:

In Massachusetts, state organizations and municipalities with 50,000+ residents must comply with the new ADA Title II digital accessibility rules (WCAG 2.1 Level AA) by April 24, 2026. Smaller municipalities (under 50,000) have until April 26, 2027. These rules cover websites, mobile apps, and digital content.

Despite that, we are moving forward now, with the full intention of meeting the April 24, 2026 deadline.

What We Have Found

Doing a precursory review of just a small handful of the town sites we host, we notice that the biggest issue regarding ADA complance is

• (a) images that don't have an alternative text applied to images for those who are using screen readers, and
• (b) some of the links on the pages have too light a contrast with the background color, making them hard to see for those with bad vision.

Both of these issues are easy to deal with, and each town will get get a custom report for their home page and a random inner page, and will also get a report on how many images on their website are missing the "Alt Text", which they can manage on their own.

This review is free for each municipality.

The reports will be sent throughout March, and all work on our end should be completed in April -- a year ahead of the requirement.

If you have questions, please contact us.

Thanks,

Mik

Posted: to WebWorks News on Tue, Feb 24, 2026
Updated: Tue, Feb 24, 2026