Deadline directory
ADA Title II deadlines and document backlogs by state
The Department of Justice's ADA Title II rule requires state and local governments to make their web content and public documents conform to WCAG 2.1 AA, on dates set by the Department's interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (91 FR 20902). The rule excepts some content, including documents posted before an entity's compliance date that nobody uses to reach a service. Pick your state to see every organization we track, its deadline cohort and, where we have crawled its website, its public document backlog.
Coverage. We currently track 50 public organizations across California, New York, and Texas, and 0 of them have published document statistics from a crawl of their own website — 0 public documents found in all. Other states are not yet surveyed. The deadline itself applies nationwide: look yours up by population for any US state or Canadian province, or read the rule.
Coverage
States in the directory
California
18 organizations tracked
No document surveys published yet
12 due April 26, 2027 · 6 due April 26, 2028
See California deadlinesNew York
16 organizations tracked
No document surveys published yet
10 due April 26, 2027 · 6 due April 26, 2028
See New York deadlinesTexas
16 organizations tracked
No document surveys published yet
11 due April 26, 2027 · 5 due April 26, 2028
See Texas deadlines
The rule and the date
How the deadline is determined
Under 28 CFR 35.200(b), a public entity whose total population is 50,000 or more must comply by April 26, 2027; one under 50,000 has until April 26, 2028. A city, county or township takes the population the Census Bureau calculated for it in the most recent decennial Census; a public school district takes the Census Bureau's Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates figure for the district, not its enrollment.
A special district government has no population calculated by the Census Bureau, so the rule gives it the later date, April 26, 2028, whatever the size of the area it serves. A district that a city or county runs rather than governing itself is not a special district government under the rule: it takes that government's population, which can put it in the April 26, 2027 cohort.
Both dates come from the interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (91 FR 20902(opens in new tab)), which moved each cohort back a year. The deadline table sets out every cohort with its source, and the deadline finder answers for your own organization, with the edge cases that catch people out.
ADA Title II rule timeline
- Final rule published
- Deadlines extended
- 50,000 or more people
- Smaller entities and special districts
Method
What a crawl measures, and what it does not
Deadline data reflects the interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (91 FR 20902(opens in new tab)). No crawl statistics have been published yet.
Document statistics appear only for organizations whose websites we have actually crawled. A crawl fetches an organization's public website, follows its links, counts the PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files it finds, sorts them into categories such as agendas and minutes, forms, policies, newsletters and reports, and runs basic machine checks on a sample of them.
We publish figures only when a crawl finds at least 25 documents and machine-checks at least 20 of them. Below that floor the organization's page says so and shows no numbers. Where a website's robots.txt disallows our crawler, we follow it and publish nothing.
A crawl is not a compliance judgement. A file that passes basic machine checks is not thereby accessible, and a count is a lower bound wherever the crawl stopped at a page, document or time limit. Each organization's page states the date of the crawl behind its figures, which site was fetched and how many files were checked.
FAQ
Common questions
We have not crawled every website in the directory, and none outside it. If yours is not here, scan it yourself: the free website document scan counts the documents on a public site on demand, no account needed.
States in the directory
- Why are only 3 states listed?
- The registry behind this directory currently holds organizations in California, New York, and Texas. A state appears here only once we track organizations in it, so other states are not yet surveyed rather than compliant or exempt. The rule applies in every state regardless, and the deadline finder gives any public entity its date.
- Does the deadline apply to an organization that is not in the directory?
- Yes. The compliance dates in 28 CFR 35.200(b) apply to every state and local government entity covered by Title II, whether or not we track it. Absence from this directory says nothing about an organization's obligations or its status; the rule and its dates are explained in full on the compliance pages.
- How current are the document counts?
- Each figure carries the date of the crawl that produced it. Organizations that have not claimed their page are re-crawled about monthly, and a page whose crawl is older than that says so.
Not listed?
Every public entity has a date, listed here or not.
The deadline finder answers with the rule, the date and the primary source for any US state or Canadian province. If you would rather talk it through first, book a 20-minute demo.