Accessibility Progress-to-Date

Accessibility Compliance with HB24-1454

A government entity that is not able to meet the steps to comply with the OIT rules by July 1, 2024 may instead pursue compliance with the requirements of HB24-1454 through July 1, 2025. On July 1, 2025 all government entities must comply with the OIT rules.

A government entity may be immune from liability through July 1, 2025 for failure to comply with the OIT rules if they meet the following three criteria:

Make good faith efforts toward resolution of a complaint of noncompliance;
Create a clear, easy-to-find process that is prominently displayed on all front-facing web pages for requesting redress for inaccessible digital products, including contact options that are not dependent on web access; and
Create and post on front-facing web pages a progress-to-date report that is updated quarterly and demonstrates concrete and specific efforts toward compliance with the OIT rules.

Accessibility standards applied

The Governor’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) has developed accessibility technical standards with the intent of providing enterprise standard configurations for technologies which provide service to those with disabilities, in accordance with the technical standards provided by:

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA or higher
Section 508 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Chapters 3,4,6
and following C.R.S. 24-85-101 to 24-85-104, ARTICLE 85

Our efforts

Caprock Academy is committed to providing equitable access to all Coloradans. Our ongoing accessibility effort works towards the day when all services, programs, and activities are accessible, providing equal access to information and services to all Coloradans.

To that end, Caprock Academy has a plan to prioritize, evaluate, remediate and continuously improve every digital touchpoint within our services, programs, and activities. Below, you’ll find just some of the measures that Caprock Academy is undertaking.

Accessibility Maturity

Caprock Academy is at the following accessibility 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….
	Launch	Recognized need organization-wide. Planning initiated, but activities not well organized.
X	Integrate	Roadmap including 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.

Why we are at this stage

We’ve made great progress since HB21-1110 has passed considering substantial challenges, including but not limited to:

Limited budget for accessibility compliance
Small dedicated Communications and Technology Team of four employees
Two full websites, one with a large volume of resources (documents, PDFs)
One FTE that manages the website and communications
Undue burden

Organizational measures

Caprock Academy has taken many steps, including, but not limited to:

Accessibility Committee taking the lead on responsibility for accessibility compliance
Create Accessibility page with plan, progress, challenges, and statement
Define an accessibility roadmap including timeline, goals, roles, responsibilities and policies as needed for our organization
Ensuring an up-to-date Accessibility Statement with a plan to provide reasonable accommodations with clear contact information
Include accessibility into our procurement processes
Testing and auditing of our website with online tools
Provide contact information and support for receiving accessibility feedback and accommodations requests.
Create and post on front-facing web pages a progress-to-date report that is updated quarterly and demonstrates concrete and specific efforts toward compliance with the OIT rules. (This is required to be in compliance with the requirements of HB24-1454 through July 1, 2025)
Installing a permanent homepage link to our Accessibility page
Installing a digital message on all company emails with a link to our Accessibility page
Contacting vendors to investigate their accessibility options and tools
Adding Alt+Text on all new photos and images added to our site after 10/23/24 that will describe the image to the user

Formal approval

Tisha Moore, Communications & Marketing Director, authorizes this statement which was last updated in October of 2024. Tisha Moore can be reached at [email protected] or 970-243-1771.