The DOJ’s 2026 Accessibility Rule: What CSU and UC Institutions Need to Know

In 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice finalized a major update to the ADA Title II rule, establishing clear digital accessibility requirements for public entities, including public university systems such as the California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC), with key compliance deadlines beginning in 2026.

For CSU and UC institutions, this ruling applies directly to documents and digital materials shared across academic, administrative, and student-facing environments—including PDFs, syllabi, course materials, policies, research-related documents, board materials, and other publicly available files. Institutions are expected to ensure accessible access to these materials proactively, not only in response to individual accommodation requests or complaints.

In this educational webinar, we’ll break down what the DOJ’s Title II ruling requires for documents and PDFs, how the 2026 deadlines apply to CSU and UC campuses, and what document accessibility means in practice within large, decentralized university systems. We’ll also explore practical, scalable approaches institutions are using to provide accessible access to documents—especially when legacy content, distributed ownership, and limited remediation capacity make manual remediation challenging.

What We’ll Cover

• An overview of the DOJ’s ADA Title II ruling as it applies to documents and digital files
• Key 2026 compliance deadlines and what CSU and UC campuses are expected to address by those dates
• What “document accessibility” means for PDFs, syllabi, forms, and legacy academic content
• Common document accessibility challenges across large, decentralized university systems
• Practical paths to compliance, including a range of document accessibility approaches
• Tools and workflows that can support document accessibility at scale

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