[Colorado-Talk] Colorado ranks #1 in web site accessibility

[THERESA MONTANO]

Greetings all!
I  am sharing some great news we received yesterday.  When I first started at the Governor's Office 7 years ago,
Colorado ranked 48 out of 52.  Today with the help of the Advisory Board and my team of 10, we are at number 1!!
This proves the collaborative  success of the Technology Accessibility Program and the    Technology Accessibility Advisory Board.
As we all know the work is never done and moving the Government into operationalizing accessibility completely is a slow moving effort. Many challenges, dead ends and work arounds.   we are diligently working to make a "One Colorado for all."
I am so proud of my teams and shout out to our NFB Board members-
Curtis Chong
Chelsea Cook
Jim Pilkington
Julia Zanon
Christine McGroarty
Nancy Feldman
Show Trela
Cynde Vaughn

Colorado was ranked by an independent evaluation of our websites, mostly based on the Colorado.gov CMS                                , as the most accessible state in the country! Colorado and Vermont are much further ahead than other states. You can read more about it in the Government Section of the Accessibility Chapter in the Web Almanac<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__almanac.httparchive.org_en_2024_accessibility-23government&d=DwMFaQ&c=sdnEM9SRGFuMt5z5w3AhsPNahmNicq64TgF1JwNR0cs&r=POXFNpI9lzB-36NXnN77zUaZUGHpZJgDLQuTybdO0vs&m=Bzzt5rZzvV8h4GJzk78wvXtON3DmEynQbcrtxukR9TRkKeZdZqdHBVYn4UVYBeYk&s=ULEgnOTFTwoMKYAMTBoa8m_oxjToLs2zyAgTZnBW_JA&e=>.

[Web Almanac accessibility scores for top 15 sites. Colorado ranks #1 at 96% and Vermont ranks #2 at 94%.]

Here is a link to the specific data points that he sent me via LinkedIn.
[https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/32/type/application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet] Colorado Independent Statewide Accessibility Evaluation by Web Almanac<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_open-3Fid-3D1WPhQdu-5F-2DIf8lLaz5AvSP5OiFjvnUjwZB7oHIL2azA0Y&d=DwMFaQ&c=sdnEM9SRGFuMt5z5w3AhsPNahmNicq64TgF1JwNR0cs&r=POXFNpI9lzB-36NXnN77zUaZUGHpZJgDLQuTybdO0vs&m=Bzzt5rZzvV8h4GJzk78wvXtON3DmEynQbcrtxukR9TRkKeZdZqdHBVYn4UVYBeYk&s=rWfvsthhsFQKjMmykDpNClOOfsJ-JoXmSRcockT7MSM&e=>


Theresa Montano PMP/CSM
Senior Solutions Architect of Accessibility
Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology
303-862-1683

State Scoop award 2022
International Association of Accessibility Professionals member
Senior Advisor EDI Action Alliance


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