MOPD
As the mayor's "designee," the NYC Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities (MOPD) is required by Local Law 26 to publish a biennial digital accessibility report "that documents the compliance of websites maintained by or on behalf of the city".
2023's digital accessibility report was published months after its legal deadline –– but even worse, it appears to be a sham report with no audit results: the associated "Appendix 1" is an empty template with no scores, & most of the 2023 report is copied verbatim from the 2021 report, with lengthy passages on testing methods, protocol, & scoring for an audit that does not appear to have happened.
See:
- 2021 report (49 pages)
- 2021 Appendix 1 Survey Tool, with audit of 11 websites
- 2023 Report (17 pages; only substantive new content on pages 10, 11, 15, 16)
- 2023 Appendix 1 (blank template)
- Local Law 26
- Correspondence: the 2023 digital accessibility report was due on July 1, 2023; I asked about the missing report on 11/17/23, & received a response on 12/18/23 saying it was "recently posted" to the MOPD's reports & publications page; the report is dated 11/20/23.
Per Local Law 12, every city agency was required to complete a five-year accessibility plan, in consultation with MOPD, by 12/31/23. As of 1/4/24, the list of proposed agency plans finally included the mayor's office (with a plan that links the same incomplete data referenced above), but the MTA is still missing.
Local Law 12 seems more concerned about some agencies than others, & specifies next steps for "the office," here meaning the MOPD:
"If any agency or entity, including, but not limited to the metropolitan transportation authority does not develop a five-year accessibility plan, the office shall conduct outreach with such agency or entity to share best practices and recommendations regarding accessibility with such agency or entity.
"No later than 90 days after the outreach required by paragraph 1 of this subdivision, if an agency or entity does not develop a five-year accessibility plan, the office shall post on its website a statement that such agency or entity did not develop such plan and a summary of the best practices and recommendations that the office shared with such agency or entity pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision."