Saturday, Sept. 14 – Sunday, Sept. 15
The Main Library is hosting the Jaipur Literature Festival Saturday and Sunday. Services, hours and parking will be impacted.

Digital Accessibility Plan

Approved June 18, 2024

Accessibility Standards

In accordance with Colorado law, the District is committed to applying standard configurations for technologies and services, in accordance with the technical standards provided by:

  • World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1 Level AA or higher;
  • Section 508 of the S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Chapters 3,4,6; and
  • R.S. 24-85-101 to 24-85-104, ARTICLE 85.

II. The District’s Efforts

The District is committed to providing accessible digital information to all persons. The District will engage in continuous efforts to make online services and digital communications accessible to the public, including equal access for persons with disabilities. The District will prioritize, evaluate, remediate, and continuously improve its online services and digital communications.

III. Accessibility Maturity

The District is at the following maturity level for 2024:

Check One Stage Criteria
Inactive No awareness and recognition of need. At this stage organizations are inventorying their technology, have begun to make investments, etc….
X Launch Recognized need organization-wide. Planning initiated, but activities are not well organized.
Integrate Roadmap including a timeline is in place, overall organizational approach defined and well organized.
Optimize Incorporated into the whole organization, consistently evaluated, and actions taken on assessment outcomes.

IV. Maturity Level Discussion

The District has encountered the following challenges:

The District currently has limited staff resources to perform this work due to the foundational work required to set up equipment and systems for the District. This has slowed the progress in 2024. The District is planning to hire a third party to review the website periodically and conduct an audit of the posted documents and external links and update those that are not in compliance.

The District has enjoyed the following successes:

The District has performed an initial evaluation of the website and posted documents, corrected obvious compliance issues, and has written a digital accessibility statement and developed a plan and timeline for compliance. The Board of Trustees approved the accessibility statement on May 28, 2024, and the statement is posted on the library website https://boulderlibrary.org/website-accessibility-statement/

V. Organizational Measures

The District has taken the following measures:

  • Define an accessibility roadmap including timeline, goals, roles, responsibilities, and policies as needed for our organization.
  • Incorporate accessibility into our procurement
  • Conduct an inventory of all technology, prioritize remediation, validate through testing, and address issues.
  • Create and implement a plan for providing reasonable accommodation and modification until the technology can be made accessible.
  • Engage a website accessibility vendor to make the District’s front-facing web pages
  • Validate through testing all front-facing web pages are compliant with WCAG 1 Level AA.
  • Provide the current Plan for the period July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2025, contact information, and support for receiving accessibility feedback and requests for

The District has designated its Compliance Officer to coordinate and implement the plan.

The District’s Compliance Officer’s contact information is:

Boulder Public Library District
1001 Arapahoe Avenue
Boulder, CO 80302

Attn: Aimee Schumm, Compliance Officer Phone No.: (303)441-3100