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GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #3

By GIC on November 10th, 2025

Accessibility Countdown: 165 Days(5 months, 14 days)until Accessibility Deadline (4/24/26) Special Dates in November Highlight Accessibility Awareness November is a special month in the world of digital accessibility! There are two days that have been designated for awareness that have spawned literally hundreds of events around the world. World Usability Day, Thursday November 13th World […]

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Lighthouse Ghost Stories!

By GIC on October 29th, 2025

‘Tis the season to share scary ghost stories! We’ve been talking a lot about the Lighthouse design system in this platform. But, in the spirit of the season, we thought we’d take a look at some of the spooky stories involving Delaware’s actual lighthouses. We discovered some fascinating and freaky ghost stories! We make no […]

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GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #2

By GIC on October 22nd, 2025

DTI to Host Online Digital Accessibility Training Series As part of Delaware’s Digital Accessibility Initiative, the Department of Technology and Information (DTI) is launching a four-part Accessibility Training Series to support all Level Access users and agency accessibility leads. This series will help build practical skills for creating, reviewing, and remediating accessible PDFs in alignment […]

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Quick Catch-up: Lighthouse and Storybook

By GIC on October 21st, 2025

We’d like to welcome our new subscribers to the blog and newsletter by offering a bit of context. The newsletter is specifically about accessibility: tips, tricks, events, regulatory info. The blog is a longer-form platform where we certainly get into accessibility, but often as it pertains to the Lighthouse design system. In a nutshell, Lighthouse […]

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GIC Accessibility Newsletter: Issue #1

By GIC on October 08th, 2025

Welcome to our new newsletter! Our goal is to inform, to alert, and to provide digital accessibility resources for editors and stakeholders of Delaware state agencies that work with the GIC. We’ll be counting down to the pending ADA accessibility deadline of April 24, 2026, reminding you to keep your website’s remediation on your radar […]

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It’s Time to Sign Up for Lighthouse!

By GIC on September 24th, 2025

It’s an exciting time for Delaware state agency websites, and we have an exciting announcement: We have created a queue for Delaware agencies looking to upgrade their websites! Those who have been following this blog are pretty up to speed at this point regarding the pending WCAG Accessibility Deadline (4/24/26). They are also hopefully aware […]

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Archives and Accessibility

By GIC on August 25th, 2025

How an archive section can help your agency reach website compliance Concerns About Content Volume Something we heard a lot at our recent Accessibility Workshop was concern about the sheer volume of content that needs remediation on some agency websites. If your site has literally thousands of PDFs dating back a couple decades, you aren’t […]

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Help Us with a Quick Response!

By GIC on August 18th, 2025

Hello! As you know, we at the GIC are helping our great Delaware state agencies prepare for the April 24, 2026, ADA Accessibility Deadline. We have a simple question that we’re hoping will help provide inspiration among those of us in the same boat: What is your agency doing these days to prepare for the […]

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Workshopping WordPress Accessibility

By GIC on August 07th, 2025

An invigorating forum in Dover last month, as the GIC hosted a Website Accessibility Workshop for dozens of dedicated Delaware state agency website stakeholders. We had a great group of engaged web editors and agency members, and we can’t thank them all enough for taking time out of their busy schedules to focus on this […]

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Consequences of Accessibility Non-Compliance

By GIC on August 04th, 2025

April 24, 2026 is less than nine months away as of this writing. By now, almost everyone who works with government websites has heard this date repeated; it’s the pending deadline for the new ADA Accessibility Rules. First and foremost, our concern should be with helping disabled citizens who are being unfairly kept from public […]

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