<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Great news. How exciting. Thanks for sharing.<div>Jessica</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 3:45 PM THERESA MONTANO via Colorado-Talk <<a href="mailto:colorado-talk@nfbnet.org">colorado-talk@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-8705086187387129727">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Greetings all!<u></u><u></u></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!!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">This proves the collaborative success of the Technology Accessibility Program and the Technology Accessibility Advisory Board.<u></u><u></u></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.”<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I am so proud of my teams and shout out to our NFB Board members-<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Curtis Chong<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Chelsea Cook<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jim Pilkington<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Julia Zanon<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Christine McGroarty<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Nancy Feldman<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Show Trela<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Cynde Vaughn<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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>. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="643" height="489" style="width: 6.6979in; height: 5.0937in;" id="m_-8705086187387129727_x0000_i1025" src="cid:ii_19345f39d5b4cff311" alt="Web Almanac accessibility scores for top 15 sites. Colorado ranks #1 at 96% and Vermont ranks #2 at 94%."><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="m_-8705086187387129727gmaildefault"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68)">Here is a link to the specific data points that he sent me via LinkedIn. </span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><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:rgb(32,33,36);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" id="m_-8705086187387129727_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> <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Theresa Montano PMP/CSM<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Solutions Architect of Accessibility<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Colorado Governor’s Office of Information Technology<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">303-862-1683<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">State Scoop award 2022<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">International Association of Accessibility Professionals member<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Senior Advisor EDI Action Alliance<u></u><u></u></p>
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