# Web Accessibility
The DOJ’s 2026 Accessibility Rule: What California Community Colleges Need to Know
Unsure how the DOJ’s new accessibility rule applies to your community college’s documents—or what the 2026 compliance deadlines mean for PDFs, forms, and legacy files?
Monday, February 2, 2026, at 12 p.m. CT (1 p.m. ET | 11 a.m. MT | 10 a.m. PT)
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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 community colleges, with key compliance deadlines beginning in 2026.
For community colleges, this ruling applies directly to documents and digital materials shared with students, faculty, staff, and the public—including PDFs, forms, syllabi, policies, 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 community colleges, and what document accessibility means in practice across academic, administrative, and student-facing content. We’ll also explore practical, scalable approaches colleges are using to provide accessible access to documents—especially when legacy content, decentralized ownership, and limited staff capacity make manual remediation difficult.
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 community colleges are expected to address by those dates
- What “document accessibility” means for PDFs, forms, syllabi, and legacy content
- Common document accessibility challenges community colleges face across departments
- 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.
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.