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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings all!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am sharing some great news we received yesterday. When I first started at the Governor’s Office 7 years ago,
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<p class="MsoNormal">Colorado ranked 48 out of 52. Today with the help of the Advisory Board and my team of 10, we are at number 1!!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This proves the collaborative success of the Technology Accessibility Program and the Technology Accessibility Advisory Board.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am so proud of my teams and shout out to our NFB Board members-<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Curtis Chong<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chelsea Cook<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jim Pilkington<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julia Zanon<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christine McGroarty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nancy Feldman<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Show Trela<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cynde Vaughn<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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 <a href="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=" target="_blank">
<span style="color:windowtext">Government Section of the Accessibility Chapter in the Web Almanac</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="643" height="489" style="width:6.6979in;height:5.0937in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01DB383E.41E77FE0" alt="Web Almanac accessibility scores for top 15 sites. Colorado ranks #1 at 96% and Vermont ranks #2 at 94%."><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#444444">Here is a link to the specific data points that he sent me via LinkedIn. </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><a href="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=" target="_blank"><span style="color:#202124;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" id="_x0000_i1026" src="https://drive-thirdparty.googleusercontent.com/32/type/application/vnd.google-apps.spreadsheet"> Colorado
Independent Statewide Accessibility Evaluation by Web Almanac</span></a></span> <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Theresa Montano PMP/CSM<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Solutions Architect of Accessibility<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">303-862-1683<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">State Scoop award 2022<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">International Association of Accessibility Professionals member<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Advisor EDI Action Alliance<o:p></o:p></p>
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