HB21-1110 Colorado Accessibility Law and Progress Reports

The City and County of Broomfield is committed to ensuring and improving access to digital information, including for those who are blind or visually impaired, deaf or hard of hearing, in the neurodivergent community, or with additional digital access needs. 

This high priority area aims to meet and exceed the WCAG 2.1 requirements outlined in HB 21-1110, leverage best practices in communications and engagement, and create a permanent culture of digital accessibility for the City and County of Broomfield. A cross-departmental team is leading the efforts to ensure equity of access and inclusion. 

Q1 2025 Accomplishments

This report highlights the work completed in Q4 2024 to enhance digital accessibility within the organization, with a focus on training, organization-wide improvements, departmental engagement, and remediation efforts, all of which will continue to evolve in 2025.

Past Work Highlights

Training

  • Launch of required 2025 digital accessibility training for ALL staff - updated version of Digital Accessibility Core Concepts that all staff accessed in 2024
  • New training content added to the existing (25+) user guides in the City and County of Broomfield internal Learning Management System, including accessible presentations, best practices and updates to the accommodation process. 
  • Continued one-on-one support for advanced users to further ICT content accessible creation skillsets and norms. 
  • Launch of Digital Accessibility Q&A sessions series, open to all. These sessions will cover focus topics and provide FAQ overviews, complementing existing training and support services on digital accessibility. 

Organization

  • Continued use of internal digital accessibility support service portal for: advanced digital accessibility remediation, digital accessibility training request, digital content accessibility audit, one-on-one digital accessibility support, and accessibility audits for potential vendors; furthering norm of having users across organization submit tickets rather than tackle issues one off in order to further the knowledge and reference skillset. 
  • Increasing use of digital accessibility tools, including Grackle PDF for Google Sheets to PDF with accessibility output. 
  • Refinement of accommodation process through ada@broomfield.org for external requests and internal through human resources. 

Accessibility Management

  • Ongoing assessment and engagement with Broomfield’s technology services partners for improvement around digital accessibility.
  • Next steps identified in further streamlining audit of intake of any new technology services agreements to ensure accessibility in 3rd party software
  • Work continued on enhancing organization-wide communications templates, with improvements for better accessibility.

Upcoming Milestones

  • Identification of permanent program ownership within the organization to ensure ongoing digital accessibility efforts.
  • Further remediation of forms and templates for accessibility, alongside training and adoption of new, accessible forms and templates.
  • Continued training refreshers to the entire staff, especially around core concepts and the accommodation process