In April 2024 the U.S. Department of Justice published a final rule under Title II of the ADA setting a single technical standard for state and local government web content and mobile apps: WCAG 2.1 Level AA. A DOJ Interim Final Rule on 20 April 2026 pushed both compliance dates out by a year — governments serving 50,000 or more residents now have until 26 April 2027, and smaller jurisdictions until 26 April 2028.
If your agency or development shop ships sites for those governments, your client carries the legal obligation under Title II — they can't delegate it. But the procurement questions, the conformance warranties, and the remediation work all flow down to your team. The fastest way to keep your renewals safe is to make WCAG 2.1 AA conformance routine across every project you ship.
Why teams switch to A11y Pulse
Public-sector work now ships under a WCAG 2.1 AA bar, and the procurement, remediation, and conformance flow-downs land in your repos. A11y Pulse keeps your team ahead of that without staffing accessibility in-house.
Pre-launch
Run a full WCAG 2.1 AA scan against the staging URL and surface every blocker before procurement asks. Findings come with element selectors and remediation guidance your developers can ship from.
Staging-friendly scans
Per-project reports
Exportable PDF reports per project. The artefact your client passes to their accessibility coordinator or compliance officer comes straight out of A11y Pulse — no spreadsheet rebuild.
Exportable PDF reports
After launch
Daily scans across every project on your books once the site is live, with Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts when something regresses in production.
Daily scans across every site
Side by side
Two ways an agency can cover WCAG 2.1 AA on a public-sector project. A11y Pulse is built for the continuous one.
Where we fit
A11y Pulse runs axe-core daily across the sitemap, including JavaScript-rendered pages and authenticated flows. Add a project in about five minutes and the dashboard is running. Per-project reports are exportable as PDFs your client can hand to their accessibility coordinator without a separate retainer.
