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

[tkeenan79 at gmail.com]

Wow, that's a hell of a coup. Huge congrats to all involved!

 

 

 

 

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

 

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
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__almanac.httparchive.or
g_en_2024_accessibility-23government&d=DwMFaQ&c=sdnEM9SRGFuMt5z5w3AhsPNahmNi
cq64TgF1JwNR0cs&r=POXFNpI9lzB-36NXnN77zUaZUGHpZJgDLQuTybdO0vs&m=Bzzt5rZzvV8h
4GJzk78wvXtON3DmEynQbcrtxukR9TRkKeZdZqdHBVYn4UVYBeYk&s=ULEgnOTFTwoMKYAMTBoa8
m_oxjToLs2zyAgTZnBW_JA&e=> Government Section of the Accessibility Chapter
in the Web Almanac.  

 



 

Here is a link to the specific data points that he sent me via LinkedIn. 

 
<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_open-
3Fid-3D1WPhQdu-5F-2DIf8lLaz5AvSP5OiFjvnUjwZB7oHIL2azA0Y&d=DwMFaQ&c=sdnEM9SRG
FuMt5z5w3AhsPNahmNicq64TgF1JwNR0cs&r=POXFNpI9lzB-36NXnN77zUaZUGHpZJgDLQuTybd
O0vs&m=Bzzt5rZzvV8h4GJzk78wvXtON3DmEynQbcrtxukR9TRkKeZdZqdHBVYn4UVYBeYk&s=rW
fvsthhsFQKjMmykDpNClOOfsJ-JoXmSRcockT7MSM&e=>  Colorado Independent
Statewide Accessibility Evaluation by Web Almanac  

 

 

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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