Finance teams are heading into one of the tightest compliance windows in recent memory, and the documents your office publishes publicly are at the center of it.

Federal ADA Title II rules now require public-facing content, including the budget documents and financial reports your team publishes every year, to meet WCAG 2.1 Level AA digital accessibility standards. And states aren’t waiting on the federal timeline. Florida just passed HB 1329, requiring every county and municipality to post budgets as structured, downloadable documents with narrative analysis and graphical summaries ahead of upcoming deadlines, and it won’t be the last state to move in this direction.

Two converging mandates. The same documents. The same deadline window.

This discussion is built specifically for Finance Directors, Budget Managers, and CFOs. We’ll move past the overview and into what compliant, transparent budget publishing actually looks like for your team.

What we’ll cover:

• Where the ADA Title II deadlines stand after the recent extension, and what WCAG 2.1 Level AA means specifically for the budget documents your office publishes publicly
• What Florida’s HB 1329 requires from local government budget offices and why other states are paying close attention
• Why a standard PDF on your website likely isn’t enough anymore, and what compliant budget publishing looks like in practice
• How OpenBook helps finance teams satisfy both requirements with one transparency solution