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Good Communication Has Always Been Accessible. Now It's Also the Law.

PIO Toolkit Team
March 5, 2026
5 min read
Starting April 2026, government communicators must ensure their digital content is accessible to all, following new legal standards to enhance communication for individuals with disabilities. Don't miss out on adapting your practices now!

A compliance deadline is coming in April 2026, and most government communicators assume it belongs to someone else. The web team. The IT department. Legal. Someone with "accessibility" in their job title.

It applies to the content you create and publish every day. Your social media posts. Your videos. Your PDFs. The update you put out at 11pm during an incident. All of it.

That's not meant to alarm you. It's meant to make sure you're in the room when your organization figures out what to do next — because that conversation is already happening somewhere without you.

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