Colleges Must Revise Millions of Web Pages. It Will Be ‘Painful.’

Public colleges nationwide will enter 2025 with a pressing mandate to make their web and mobile-app content accessible for all students. The U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year formally added new language to Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act that — for the first time — lays out specific technical standards for web content that public colleges and other government entities need to meet. That means colleges must remediate existing digital content, which includes course materials, to meet those standards, and will also need to apply the standards to any new content they create or use.

And many have just under a year and a half to do it.

Private colleges that receive funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should also pay attention, accessibility advocates said, because of separate regulatory changes that recently imposed the same standards under a similar deadline.