Abstract
A joint “Dear Colleague” letter issued in May by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Education Department outlines the Section 504 and Americans With Disabilities Act accessibility obligations that govern educational institutions’ public‐facing webpages. Although the “Dear Colleague” letter reiterates that all public‐facing web pages should be accessible to low‐vision, hearing‐impaired, and limited motor control users, it offers little new guidance on compliance timelines, suggesting instead that the Departments will afford some flexibility to institutions that haven’t yet come into compliance. Thus, while institutions should already have ensured as a matter of self‐interest that critical public‐facing web pages — including those related to applications, marketing, and news announcements — are accessible, institutions need not scour all public‐facing web pages to immediately root out inaccessible archival material.
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