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Docketline

Meeting agendas, packets and minutes posted as accessible web pages, not only PDFs - and no meeting published until everything on it can be read by a screen reader.

For city, county, township, special-district and school-board clerks.

The Justice Department's ADA Title II rule asks state and local government web content to meet WCAG 2.1 AA from April 26, 2027 (population 50,000 or more) and April 26, 2028 (smaller governments and special districts). Agendas and minutes posted as scanned PDFs are the usual gap.

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What it does

Inside Docketline

Type the agenda, not a PDF

one item a line, indent for sub-items. It becomes a real numbered list.

The packet, checked

every file needs link text that says what it is ("click here" and bare file names are refused), and is either marked as checked accessible or carries a summary typed onto the page.

Minutes as text

draft or approved, with the approval date.

Cancelled or postponed

said in words, with the reason, not only in red.

Notice

the agenda's posting time against the hours your state's open meetings law asks for (72 by default).

The door

Publish refuses, naming every reason, until nothing is in the way. Editing a published meeting into a problem takes it off the archive.

The archive

[docketline] - a table with a caption and header cells, filtered by year and by board. [docketline body="City Council"] shows one board.

What it needs

Before you start

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