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03 — ADA Title II
Title II covers all public K-12 districts and public colleges. The 2024 DOJ final rule on web accessibility is the biggest compliance shift in the past decade — with hard deadlines in 2027 and 2028.
In 60 seconds
Title II requires public entities — including NJ school districts and public colleges — to provide effective communication for individuals with vision, hearing, or speech disabilities. That means qualified sign-language interpreters, CART, captioning, accessible electronic formats, and other auxiliary aids, at no cost to the person.
The April 2024 DOJ final rule extended Title II to web content and mobile apps. All public entities must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA. Compliance deadlines were extended one year by DOJ's April 2026 Interim Final Rule.
The deadlines
WCAG 2.1 AA contains 50 success criteria, including alt-text, keyboard navigation, captions for prerecorded video, audio descriptions, color-contrast minimums, and consistent navigation.
What this creates demand for
WCAG 2.1 AA's captioning and audio-description requirements directly create demand for multilingual captioning, subtitling, and audio description — for instructional video, school-board recordings, public-meeting broadcasts, and any video served from a public-school website.
The accessible-document requirements (PDF remediation, alt-text, screen-reader compatibility) cross over with translation when those documents need to exist in multiple languages for LEP families.
Captioning and accessible documents