ADA Title II

On April 24, 2024, the Federal Register published the Department of Justice’s (Department) final rule updating its regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The final rule has specific requirements about how to ensure that web content and mobile applications (apps) are accessible to people with disabilities.

General Counsel’s rule is all websites, mobile apps, and digital documents made available to students, or the public must comply with the Title II digital accessibility rule.

This includes content students access through login or password. Anything students can access through their role as students must be compliant

Per general counsel, web and mobile apps exclusively used by employees or faculty with no student-facing components are excluded from the ADA title II compliance scope.

Note: Some web and mobile apps contain both student-facing and employee-only parts; the employee-only parts are exempt per General Counsel’s rule, but the student-facing parts are not exempt and must be compliant.

Key Terms Defined 

Website Vs. Webpage: A webpage is a single page within a website, while a website is a collection of interconnected webpages, accessible under a shared web domain name.

Web Domain: A domain name is the unique name or address of a website.

The websites below are separate web addresses, which makes each site a unique web domain.

UNF'S Unique Domains 

UNF’s Unique Domains is a catch-all term for all the websites or applications outside the main Cascade www.unf.edu web domain.

The Unique Domains are public or student-facing websites and mobile apps that are required to be compliant under ADA Title II’s digital accessibility rule.

UNF’s total web presence includes more sites and apps than what’s under Cascade’s www.UNF.edu web pages.

IPTM & MOCA are unique domains because their web domains are subdomains of www.unf.edu with their URL domains being https://iptm.unf.edu/ & https://mocajacksonville.unf.edu/, respectively.

Examples of UNF'S Unique Domains (Sites Outside Cascade): 

• The Athletics site (unfospreys.com), uses the Sidearm content management system (CMS). 

• Websites created using WordPress for example, unfprintguild.wordpress.com or www.unfsae.org/.

• Websites created using programs such as Wix, Drupal, or GoDaddy (for example, https://unfgolfcomplex.com/, which uses GoDaddy).

• Blog sites created using platforms such as, but not limited to Blogger, Weebly, Squarespace, or Tumblr (for example, http://unfprintguild.tumblr.com. 

• Websites created through UNF Faculty Domains (https://domains.unf.edu/).

• Any other website created, maintained, and edited with a CMS that isn’t Cascade, such as https://dineoncampus.com/unf/ or https://studyabroad.unf.edu/_portal/.

Note: personal blogs or sites created by employees/students to represent themselves (i.e., they don’t represent UNF as a public entity) are out of scope. Sites in scope are ones created and maintained for university departments, units, clubs, events, etc.

ADA Title II Archive Introduction

• • Title II restricts what can be archived; pages and documents actively needed for ongoing services, events, or activities cannot be archived.

  • After the April 2026 deadline, you cannot archive new content.

  • Title II requires that you create an archive and move archive content to that archive location.

  • Web pages and documents that are not deleted or archived must be reviewed and made WCAG compliant.

ADA Title II Qualification Requirements

• 1. The web content was created before the date of April 24, 2026, or reproduces paper documents or other physical media that were created before April 24, 2026, (The DOJ anticipates that public entities may identify or discover historic paper documents or historic content contained on physical media that they wish to post in an online archive following the time they are required to comply), AND

  2. The content is retained only for reference, research, or recordkeeping , AND,

  3. The content is kept in a special area for archived content, AND,

  4. The content has not been changed since it was archived.

• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Rocelia Roman de Gonzalez, Director, ADA Compliance
• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Justin Sorrell, Senior Assoicate, General Counsel
• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Megan Kuehner, Assistant Vice President, Enterprise & Strategy
• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Courtenay McLeland, Head of, Digital Strategies & Technology
• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Rozy Parlette, Director, CIRT
• Executive Committee ADA Title II Digital Accessibility| Michael Binder, Professor
• ADA Compliance Department| Rocelia Roman de Gonzalez, Director, ADA Compliance
• ADA Compliance Department| Rachel Fieschko, Tech Analyst I, Accessibility
• ADA Compliance Department| Jay Patel, Student Assistant, Accessibility