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  • 2027 cohort · 196 days left

Fort Bend County: ADA Title II document accessibility deadline and status

Our September 17, 2026 crawl of fortbendcountytx.gov(opens in new tab) found at least 2,000 public documents, about 17,281 pages. 10 of the 50 files we checked passed basic machine checks.

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documents found
2,000+
estimated pages
17,281
checked files passed
10 / 50
crawl date
Sep 17, 2026

What our crawl found on fortbendcountytx.gov

Counts from our September 17, 2026 crawl, which visited 528 pages. Our crawler found 2,000 public documents on fortbendcountytx.gov — an estimated 17,281 pages your team would otherwise inventory by hand.

The crawl stopped at its document and time limits, so every count here is a minimum: the site has at least this many documents.

Documents by category

  • Other1,700 · 85%
  • Reports160 · 8%
  • Forms108 · 5%
  • Agendas & minutes25 · 1%
  • Policies7 · <1%

No single category dominates this inventory — the largest bucket is uncategorized material at 85% — so a short sampling pass is the fastest way to establish remediation priorities.

By file format

  • PDF 1,967 · 98%
  • Word (DOCX) 25 · 1%
  • Excel (XLSX) 5 · <1%
  • PowerPoint (PPTX) 3 · <1%

Checked sample

10 of 50 passed(20%)

  • Passed basic checks: 10
  • Did not pass: 40

The checked files are mixed: some pass the basics and some don't. Fixing the templates you publish from now, while working through older files in batches, usually saves the most time.

The rate covers the 50 files we checked, not all 2,000 documents. Checks cover tag structure, document language, title, image alt text and form-field labels.

Scanned share

12% scanned

Most of the collection is digital-native text, which keeps remediation at the lighter end: tagging and structure work rather than OCR.

Scanned images need text recognition (OCR) before they can be tagged.

Forms are a small part of this inventory (5%), but each one needs labeled fields and a working tab order before someone using a screen reader can fill it in.

Crawl scope

Crawl date
September 17, 2026
Pages visited
528
Documents in the inventory
2,000
Files checked
50
Limits hit
document and time
Started from
fortbendcountytx.gov(opens in new tab)

These are machine checks on a sample, not a compliance finding, and they say nothing about the people who publish Fort Bend County's documents. The results for the sampled files are public above. The full inventory of every document we found, with detailed per-file reports, is available to verified staff of Fort Bend County after claiming this page.

Documents we found on fortbendcountytx.gov

Links go to the files on fortbendcountytx.gov as we found them on September 17, 2026.

Examples we found

A few of the public documents the crawl found in each category, newest first. Only files on the organization's own site are linked.

Agendas & minutes

Forms

Policies

Reports

Other

The full list of 2,000 documents is part of the claimed page.

How we measured this

  1. 1.Crawl

    We start at the organization's website and follow its sitemaps and links on the same site. We respect robots.txt and crawl delays, and skip login areas.

  2. 2.Classify

    Each document is sorted by file format and, from its link text and file name, into a category such as forms or agendas. Page counts are estimated, often without downloading the whole file.

  3. 3.Check a sample

    We open up to 50 PDFs and run basic machine checks: tags, document title, language, image alt text and form-field labels.

  4. 4.Publish only with evidence

    Figures appear only when a crawl finds at least 25 documents and checks at least 20 of them.

Limits of this method

  • We only see public pages we can reach through links or sitemaps. Documents behind logins or on other services may be missed.
  • Crawls stop at page, document and time limits. When one is hit, the counts are minimums.
  • Categories and page counts are estimates from links, file names and file metadata.
  • Machine checks can't judge reading order, alt text quality or table structure. Passing them is not WCAG 2.1 AA conformance.
  • Figures describe the site on the crawl date, not today.

This page's evidence

  • Crawled September 17, 2026: we fetched 528 pages from https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/ and found 2,000 documents.
  • The pass rate comes from machine checks on 50 of those documents, not from checking every file.
  • Changelog: September 17, 2026 — inventory refreshed from the latest crawl.
  • How we crawl, classify and check documents

Plan the work before April 26, 2027

With 196 days left, start with the documents people use most and fix the rest in batches.

Where Fort Bend County should start

Start with high-traffic services: elections, property tax, courts and public health documents, before archived material.

Voters, property owners and court users need these files to meet their own deadlines.

Serving 822,779 people means many departments publish documents; a central inventory with department owners keeps the work moving.

Usually owned by the county clerk, the elections office and department heads.

A timeline to April 26, 2027

  1. Inventory and triage

    by November 10, 2026

  2. Fix the documents people use most

    by February 7, 2027

  3. Everything in use conforms

    by April 26, 2027

A planning split of the time left, not a legal requirement.

Estimated cost with DocoMatic

$10,830 – $16,244

≈ 54,148 credits for 17,281 estimated pages

  • 933 form pages at Level 3 (field labeling and tab order)
  • 1,962 scanned pages (OCR plus Level 2 tagging)
  • 14,386 standard pages at Level 1

This is a directional estimate from crawler statistics, not a quote. Run the remediation cost calculator with your own page counts for a tailored figure.

What DocoMatic does

  • Finds the PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel files on your website and estimates the backlog.
  • Fixes documents at three levels, from basic tagging to complex forms.
  • Checks every fixed file, with veraPDF PDF/UA-1 validation from Level 2 up.
  • Human review: turn it on when you request a fix, or arrange it with our team.
  • Monitors your site so new documents don't rebuild the backlog.
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Frequently asked questions

When is Fort Bend County's ADA Title II deadline?

April 26, 2027. Fort Bend County is in the 2027 cohort under the Department of Justice's rule on web and mobile accessibility for state and local governments, with compliance dates as set by the Department's interim final rule of April 20, 2026 (91 FR 20902).

How was Fort Bend County's deadline set?

Fort Bend County's total population is 822,779 (2020 Census), at or above the 50,000 threshold in 28 CFR 35.200(b), so the earlier compliance date applies.

How many public documents does Fort Bend County have?

Our crawl on September 17, 2026 fetched 528 pages from https://www.fortbendcountytx.gov/ and found at least 2,000 documents (it stopped at a crawl limit), an estimated 17,281 pages. The full file-level list is available to verified staff after claiming the page.

How many of Fort Bend County's documents pass accessibility checks?

10 of the 50 files we checked passed basic machine checks (20%). That is a sample of the 2,000 documents we found, and passing basic checks is not full WCAG 2.1 AA conformance.

How much would it cost to fix Fort Bend County's documents?

Our directional estimate is $10,830 to $16,244 with DocoMatic: about 54,148 credits for 17,281 estimated pages, based on this crawl. It is not a quote.

Which documents should Fort Bend County fix first?

Start with high-traffic services: elections, property tax, courts and public health documents, before archived material.

Do older PDFs have to be made accessible too?

Not all of them. Documents already posted before the compliance date are excepted unless they are currently used to apply for, gain access to, or participate in the organization's services, programs or activities (28 CFR 35.201(b)). Genuinely archived content is excepted too, but only while it is kept solely for reference, research or recordkeeping, sits in a clearly identified archive area and is not changed. Everything published from the compliance date on is covered, and so is any older file people still use to reach a service.