E-470 Public Highway Authority’s Accessibility Statement
The E-470 Public Highway Authority (the “Authority”) is committed to providing equitable access to our services, programs, and activities to all members of the public. The Authority’s ongoing accessibility efforts work toward being compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1, level AA criteria. The Authority welcomes comments on how to improve its technology’s accessibility for users with disabilities as well as requests for reasonable modifications and/or accommodation to any Authority services, programs, and/or activities.
Please let us know if you encounter inaccessible information and communication technology. The Authority is committed to responding to requests for reasonable modifications and/or accommodation as well as reports of accessibility issues in a timely manner.
For reports of inaccessible information and communication technology or to request reasonable modifications or accommodations to Authority information and communication technology, please contact the Authority at:
Phone: 303-537-3775
E-mail: adarequests@e-470.com
Information and Link to Quarterly Progress to Date Report
Pursuant to House Bill 24-1454, the Authority is engaged in good faith efforts toward compliance with the Governor’s Office of Information Technology Rules Establishing Technology Accessibility Standards published in 8 CCR 1501-11 in accordance with Section 24-85-103, C.R.S.(the “OIT Rules”).
These efforts have included the creation of a progress to date report (“Report”) which can be found below.
E-470 PUBLIC HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
INITIAL PROGRESS-TO-DATE REPORT
JUNE 27, 2024 (Q2 Report)
The E-470 Public Highway Authority (the “Authority”) has conducted regular monitoring and scanning of its information and communication technology (“ICT”), as such term is defined in 8 CCR § 1501-11.4, as further described below:
- Initial website audits on both E-470.com and ExpressToll.com were completed in the first quarter of 2024.
- An audit summary for each website was provided to the Authority for review.
- Findings were broken out into Critical, Serious, Moderate, Minor and Best Practices classifications.
- Priority trackers were created by the Authority to identify the areas to focus remediation, as follows:
| Severity | Description | E470.com (Total Identified) | E470.com (Total Remaining) |
| Critical | A disabled user would not be able to use the page, or properly view content given its current state. This is a launch blocker. | 23 | 14 |
| Serious | A disabled user would face extreme difficulty but not impossibility in using the site with errors of this nature. In most cases, this is a launch blocker. | 33 | 33 |
| Moderate | A disabled user with effort would be able to understand and consume the content on the page. | 56 | 56 |
| Minor | A violation by the standard but one that would present little to no true impact to the disabled user. These would need to be fixed to be considered fully compliant but that could occur as a patch after launch. | 13 | 13 |
| Best Practice | This is recommended work that enhances usability for disabled users but is not considered a violation in its current state. Often these types of issues are changes to the CSS style sheet. | 2 | 2 |
| Severity | Description | ExpressToll.com (Total Identified) | ExpressToll.com (Total Remaining) |
| Critical | A disabled user would not be able to use the page, or properly view content given its current state. This is a launch blocker. | 31 | 31 |
| Serious | A disabled user would face extreme difficulty but not impossibility in using the site with errors of this nature. In most cases, this is a launch blocker. | 35 | 35 |
| Moderate | A disabled user with effort would be able to understand and consume the content on the page. | 42 | 42 |
| Minor | A violation by the standard but one that would present little to no true impact to the disabled user. These would need to be fixed to be considered fully compliant but that could occur as a patch after launch. | 3 | 3 |
| Best Practice | This is recommended work that enhances usability for disabled users but is not considered a violation in its current state. Often these types of issues are changes to the CSS style sheet. | 12 | 12 |
The results of the regular scanning and monitoring show the Authority’s ICT having an overall compliance score of 74% for E-470.com and 58% for ExpressToll.com with the Technical Standards, as such term is defined in 8 CCR § 1501-11.5. The Authority continues to remediate known compliance issues in the following areas:
- The Authority will continue efforts to address the findings of the audit and make improvements to the existing websites working towards ADA compliance.
- The Authority also plans to develop an entirely new ExpressToll.com website that meets ADA Compliance requirements, as well as maintain compliance in the future.
Since the Authority’s previous Quarterly Progress-to-Date Report, the Authority has remediated the following issues:
- N/A- this is the Initial Progress-to-Date Report
The Authority is committed to providing equitable technological access to our services, programs, and activities. The Authority’s ongoing technology accessibility efforts work toward being compliant with the Technical Standards. To that end, the Authority endeavors to continuously improve the technological accessibility of its ICT demonstrated by this Progress-to-Date Report.