Built for every resident.
Public records belong to the public, including residents who use a screen reader, navigate by keyboard, or need strong contrast to read. Every page Dekree publishes for your government is built and tested to the same accessibility standard the federal government now requires of local government websites.
WCAG 2.1 Level AA, verified page by page.
Dekree’s resident-facing surfaces, the public records portal and the widgets cities embed on their own websites, conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 at Level AA. That is the standard the Department of Justice adopted for state and local government web content under Title II of the ADA.
We verify it the boring, thorough way: automated WCAG checks across every public page and interactive state, a scripted keyboard-only test suite, and screen reader testing with NVDA. The checks run against the live product, and they run again before we update our conformance report.
A formal Accessibility Conformance Report (ACR, the report format procurement teams ask for) is available on request: contact@dekree.ai. No accessibility badge or third-party certificate exists for WCAG, so we do not claim one. We show our testing instead.
Contrast that cannot break
Every color a resident reads on a Dekree page meets the WCAG AA contrast standard, including the brand colors your office picks.
- Pick any header or accent color; the portal derives readable text colors automatically
- Buttons, links, badges, and status colors all hold at least 4.5:1 contrast
- Focus outlines stay visible on light and dark backgrounds
Works without a mouse
Everything a resident can do on a Dekree page, they can do with a keyboard alone.
- Submit a FOIA request, attach files, browse documents, and check status by keyboard
- Document previews trap focus properly and close on Escape
- A skip link jumps keyboard users straight to the content
Reads right in a screen reader
Pages are structured the way screen readers expect: real landmarks, real headings, real labels.
- Every form field is labeled; errors are announced when they appear
- Buttons and controls carry names, roles, and states a screen reader can speak
- Tested with NVDA in addition to automated checks
Documents and meetings included
The records themselves get the same treatment as the pages around them.
- Agendas and minutes publish as real web pages, not just PDFs
- Scanned documents get automatic text recognition so screen readers can read them
- Meeting recordings carry a searchable transcript alongside the video
Government websites now have an accessibility deadline.
Under the current Department of Justice rule, state and local government web content must meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA: by April 26, 2027 for governments of 50,000 or more people, and by April 26, 2028 for smaller governments and special districts. The rule covers content a vendor posts on your behalf, which means the agendas, minutes, notices, and records on your website count.
- ✓Applies to web content and mobile apps your government provides
- ✓Vendor-published content is explicitly your responsibility
- ✓Older archived content is largely exempt; new content is not
- ✓Everything Dekree publishes for you already meets the standard
What the rule actually requires, in plain English, with sources →
Where the edges are
Honesty over badges: documents your office uploads keep whatever structure the source file had (we add automatic text recognition to scans, and Dekree publishes agendas and minutes as accessible web pages alongside the PDF). Captions on YouTube or Vimeo hosted video come from the video host; Dekree adds the searchable transcript. Our conformance report states both plainly.
Something hard to use? Tell us.
If any Dekree page is difficult with a screen reader, keyboard, or other assistive technology, we want to know and we will fix it. Email contact@dekree.ai with the page and what happened. Accessibility issues go to the front of the line.