HLCC Web Accessibility Statement

WHEREAS, Highwood Library & Community Center (“Library”) strives to ensure that everyone has access to its full range of collections, programming, events, meetings, and services, including digital materials; and

WHEREAS, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires state and local governments to ensure that their services, programs, and activities are accessible to people with disabilities. On April 24, 2024, the Federal Register published the Department of Justice’s (“DOJ”) new final rule (the “Final Rule”) updating its regulations for Title Il and setting specific requirements to ensure web content and mobile applications provided by state and local governments are accessible to people with disabilities. The Final Rule requires small local government entities, such as the Library, to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”), Version 2.1, Level AA, on or before April 26, 2027; and

WHEREAS, the Board of Library Trustees finds that it is in the best interests of the Library to execute this Resolution to formally select the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Version 2.1, level AA, as its accessibility standard to ensure that the Library’s digital offerings are accessible and in compliance with the DOJ’s Final Rule.