CivicSuite / CivicAccess
-Accessibility support that keeps humans responsible.
-CivicAccess is the accessibility, plain-language, multilingual, and ADA Title II review-support module for CivicSuite.
+Public notices everyone can read — and you can stand behind.
+CivicAccess helps your office catch accessibility problems before a notice goes out, trade jargon for plain language, draft other-language versions for review, and keep a clean, exportable record of every check. So when a resident — or an auditor — asks, you can show your work in seconds.
Current State
-The package contains deterministic accessibility review support, CivicCore v1.2.0 release-wheel alignment, readiness gates, database-backed review records that default to the shared CivicCore PostgreSQL (with a SQLite dev fallback), accessible form planning, accessible publishing workflow checks, plain-language rewrite, multilingual draft variants, ADA Title II review-support packages, tagged-PDF expectations, records-ready export checklists, a stateless public accessibility checker, and a token-guarded staff persistence/export surface with persisted audit events. The previous v1.0.0 release was published in error and is superseded by this honest sub-1.0.0 label.
CivicAccess does not provide legal advice, certified ADA compliance, official translation certification, live LLM calls, or final publication approval.
+ Early release · v0.4.0 +What it does for your office
+Paste in a draft notice and CivicAccess checks it for the things that actually trip up readers — a missing title, an image with no description, wording that’s too dense — and hands back specific fixes, each tied to the accessibility standard behind it. It rewrites stiff municipal language into words residents use, prepares draft translations for a qualified reviewer to approve, spells out what an accessible form or tagged PDF needs, and walks an ADA Title II review step by step.
+Every saved review and export lands in your CivicSuite records with a time-stamped note of who did what. A public-records request or an accessibility complaint becomes a quick lookup instead of a scramble through old email.
Product Promise
+What you can count on
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- Surface actionable accessibility fixes with WCAG references. -
- Rewrite municipal jargon into plainer public language. -
- Mark multilingual variants for human review before publication. -
- Support ADA Title II review workflows without claiming certification. -
- Preserve source/rewrite provenance for records requests. +
- Clear fixes, not vague warnings. Each issue comes with the exact change to make and the standard it meets. +
- Plain language. Turns “remit payment prior to the deadline” into “pay before the deadline.” +
- Translations marked as drafts. Ready for a human reviewer — never sent out as official on their own. +
- ADA Title II review support that guides the work without pretending to be certification. +
- A complete paper trail. Every review is saved and exportable, ready for the next records request.
What it won’t do
+CivicAccess is a tool for your staff, not a rubber stamp. It doesn’t give legal advice, certify ADA compliance, or issue official translations, and it never publishes anything on its own — you and your ADA coordinator always make the final call.
+We version honestly: this is v0.4.0, an early release we stand behind for evaluation and pilots — not a finished 1.0, and not a compliance guarantee.
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