The DOJ’s 2026 Accessibility Rule: What K-12 School Districts Need to Know

Unsure how the DOJ’s new accessibility rule applies to your district’s documents—or what the 2026 compliance deadlines mean for PDFs, forms, and legacy files?

Tuesday, February 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. CT (2 p.m. ET | Noon MT | 11 a.m. PT)

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 K–12 school districts, with key compliance deadlines beginning in 2026.

For K–12 schools, this ruling applies directly to documents and digital files shared with students, families, and the public—including PDFs, forms, board materials, and other publicly available content. Districts are expected to ensure accessible access to these materials proactively, not only in response to 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 K–12 districts, and what document accessibility means in practice. We’ll also explore practical, scalable approaches districts are using to provide accessible access to documents—especially when backlogs, legacy content, and limited staff 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 districts are expected to address by those dates
What “document accessibility” means in practice for PDFs, forms, and legacy content
Common challenges districts face managing large volumes of documents
Practical paths to compliance, including a range of document accessibility approaches
Tools and workflows that can support document accessibility at scale

The DOJ Web Accessibility Deadline is Approaching

* Deadline indicated is for municipalities w/ populations over 50,000. Deadline based on CST.

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Meet Your Speakers

Mac Clemmens

Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Innovation at CivicPlus

CivicPlus® Senior Vice President of Product Strategy and Innovation Mac Clemmens is the Co-Founder of DocAccess and Streamline. Mac is a proud advocate of website accessibility and local government, having presented on the subject at conferences nationwide. He received the prestigious “Vision Award” from Disability Rights California—the nation’s largest disability rights advocacy organization—in recognition of his commitment to creating accessible website experiences for all users. Mac is passionate about helping local governments tell their stories and engage with their communities, ensuring that the fear of ADA noncompliance doesn’t stand in the way.

Driven by the real challenges local governments face around PDF accessibility, Mac created DocAccess, a tool designed to make compliance achievable while significantly improving the user experience for people with disabilities and the public at large. To date, more than 10 million document pages have been made WCAG 2.1 AA compliant through DocAccess.

Carter Temm

Accessibility Consultant and Screen Reader User

Carter Temm is an accessibility consultant and trainer with nearly a decade of experience helping organizations improve their digital and document accessibility. He has worked with a wide range of clients on accessibility auditing, strategy, and practical implementation of standards. A lifelong user of assistive technologies himself, Carter brings both professional expertise and firsthand insight into how people with disabilities actually experience digital content. His work focuses on helping institutions build accessible, usable content and services for all users, and on empowering teams with the knowledge and tools to make accessibility part of everyday practice.