Kankakee Community College needed to rapidly align its public-facing digital ecosystem with federal accessibility requirements under the DOJ Title II Final Rule (WCAG 2.1 AA).
Kankakee Community College
June 2025 – April 2026
The institution had no formal accessibility governance structure, a decentralized content ecosystem, and significant legacy document exposure. I led the development of an institution-wide accessibility program, shifting the approach from reactive remediation to structured, risk-aligned execution.
The initiative spanned public-facing websites, institutional documents, and systems used across academic and administrative departments. Accessibility responsibilities were distributed, with no centralized intake, prioritization, or accountability framework.
These conditions created both legal exposure and operational ambiguity.
Established an Accessibility Coordination Group and secured VP-level sponsorship. Defined a clear institutional compliance posture to guide prioritization and execution.
Implemented a risk × usage model to focus remediation efforts on high-impact content and student-facing systems.
Achieved a defensible, risk-aligned compliance posture ahead of the federal deadline by prioritizing high-impact remediation, establishing governance, and reducing future accessibility risk through system-level improvements.
Accessibility at institutional scale is not achieved through full remediation under deadline pressure. It is achieved through governance, prioritization, system design, and continuous execution.
This initiative required aligning executive leadership, technical teams, content owners, and external vendors into a coordinated, sustainable accessibility program embedded within institutional operations.