Resolution of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (January 2026)

RESOLUTION NO. 26-1

RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ADOPTION OFTHE WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES

WHEREAS, the Lake Bluff Public Library (“Library”) strives to ensure that everyone hasaccess to its full range of collections, programming, events, meetings, and services, including digital materials; and

WHEREAS, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) requires state andlocal governments to ensure that their services, programs, and activities are accessible to peoplewith disabilities. On April 24, 2024, the Federal Register published the Department of Justice’s(“DOJ”) new final rule (the “Final Rule”) updating its regulations for Title II and setting specificrequirements to ensure web content and mobile applications provided by state and localgovernments are accessible to people with disabilities. The Final Rule requires small localgovernment entities, such as the Library, to conform to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines(“WCAG”), Version 2.1, Level AA, on or before April 26, 2027; and

WHEREAS, the Lake Bluff Public Library as began the process to upgrade its website toconform to WCAG Version 2.1, Level AA in 2025 with the anticipated completion in 2026; and

NOW BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Library Trustees of the Lake Bluff PublicLibrary, Lake County, Illinois, as follows: The Board of Library Trustees of the Lake Bluff PublicLibrary hereby adopts the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”), Version 2.1, LevelAA, as its accessibility standard. The Library Director, and/or her designee(s), is hereby authorizedand shall take all necessary steps to implement the WCAG, Version 2.1, Level AA, standard toensure the Library’s digital offerings are accessible to people with disabilities and in compliance with the DOJ’s Final Rule.

This Resolution shall be in full force and effect upon its adoption.ADOPTED this 20th day of January, 2026 by the following vote:

AYES: Trustees Sobolak, Jardine, Shaul, Friedeman Reidy

NAYS:

ABSENT: Trustees Heck t Kearney

President, Board of Library Trustees of the
Lake Bluff Public Library

ATTEST:
Sandrsyar Secretary Pro Tem, Board of Trustees of the
Lake Bluff Public Library

SECRETARY’S CERTIFICATЕ

I, Sandy Jardine, the duly qualified and acting Secretary Pro Tem of the Board of LibraryTrustees of the Lake Bluff Public Library, Lake County, Illinois, and the keeper of the recordsthereof, do hereby certify that attached hereto is a true and correct copy of a Resolution entitled:

RESOLUTION NO. 26-1

A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ADOPTION OFTHE WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES

adopted by the Board of Library Trustees of the Lake Bluff Public Library at a meeting of saidBoard on the 20th day of January, 2026, and that said Resolution was duly approved by thePresident and Board of Library Trustees of the Lake Bluff Public Library on the same date.

I do further certify that said Resolution is entrusted to my care and custody, that the sameis duly spread upon the records of said meeting and that I am the custodian of all records of theLake Bluff Public Library, including the minutes and resolutions.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set signed said resolution for the Lake BluffPublic Library, Lake County, Illinois, this 20th day of January, 2026.

Sandy Jardine, Vice-President
Board of Library Crustees
Lake Bluff Public Library