How usable this site is, measured.
We want everyone to be able to read public money. We are not there yet, and this page says exactly where we fall short. What we measured, on what date, and who is fixing each one. A claim about this site should carry a source, the same as any figure on it.
Effective 10 September 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026.
Conformance status
We know of nothing on this site that falls short of WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Every item our audits found has been fixed. We still do not claim the site fully meets the standard, and the reason is below.
We are committed to making this site usable by everyone, including people with disabilities, and WCAG 2.2 Level AA is the standard we are working to. The list of known problems is empty as of 15 September 2026. That is our own check, not an outside review, and a check can miss what it did not test. So we say what we found, and we do not say more. Every figure on this site carries its source. A claim about this site should carry the same.
In the words the W3C uses for a statement like this one, an empty list would let us say fully conformant. We do not say it. Who ran a test is part of what the result is worth, and no outside firm has reviewed this site.
WCAG 2.2 is the newer version of the standard, published in December 2024. We measured this site against it on 15 September 2026, in addition to 2.1: that pass found two items, and both were fixed the same day.
How we checked
Last checked 15 September 2026. A follow-up pass on the 14 September 2026 audit, this time against WCAG 2.2. Every one of the 45 manifest-declared Colorado pages, plus this page, the front door, /privacy, /terms and /honesty-framework, was tested with axe-core 4.10.2 at 1280 and 390 pixels wide against wcag2a, wcag2aa, wcag21a, wcag21aa, wcag22a and wcag22aa (100 browser runs). On top of that we walked the six success criteria new in 2.2 by hand against the site's shared, generated components rather than page by page, since a defect in a shared header, chip, tour step or form reaches every page that carries it: 2.4.11 Focus Not Obscured (Minimum) on the sticky header and the anchor-scroll offset it can hide a target under; 2.5.7 Dragging Movements against every drag-only control (none found: the map is click-based, the scrollytelling players use scroll and tap); 2.5.8 Target Size (Minimum) against chips, sort buttons, nav items, the info popovers, tour controls and footer links; 3.2.6 Consistent Help: the "Ask us something" control is the header CTA on the house and legal pages, same position on all seven by shared markup; the Colorado locale's own header and footer carry no repeated help mechanism at all, so there is nothing across those 45 pages for this criterion to be inconsistent about; 3.3.7 Redundant Entry against the subscribe and rating forms, neither of which is a multi-step process that could ask twice; 3.3.8 Accessible Authentication (Minimum) against the access-code gate and the site password, both audited as declared even though access_code is off. The axe sweep flagged small citation links inside two source-citation lines on what-it-buys.html and budget.html as under 24 by 24 CSS px; each one sits inline in a sentence of running text ("Sources: A · B · C"), which is 2.5.8's own Inline exception, so these are measured and not counted as failing. 2.4.13 Focus Appearance (AAA) was measured and is not required at Level AA; nothing found this pass fails it. The color-blindness simulation and the 320px/400%-zoom sweep were not re-run this pass; nothing found this pass touched a color token or a layout rule either one depends on. A person read the results.
What was checked. The 45 manifest-declared pages of the Colorado locale (which expand to the 75 pages the locale serves once the templated pages are counted), plus this page, the front door, /privacy, /terms and /honesty-framework. The five Colorado city locales are out of scope for this pass: they inherit Colorado's design system, so a fix made here reaches them without a separate review.
Who checked. This was a self-evaluation. No outside firm has reviewed the site. We say so because who ran a test is part of what the result is worth.
What we know does not meet the standard
Nothing on this list, as of 15 September 2026. Every item that was here was measured, fixed and removed between 5 and 15 September 2026, the last of them under WCAG 2.2 on 15 September. This list is built from a file in our code. A check fails our build if a fixed item is left here, and the next audit adds what it finds. So it cannot quietly go out of date.
What we do to keep the site usable
These are habits with checks behind them, not intentions.
- Every chart on this site has a data table beside it with the same figures in words. No chart is the only way to reach a number.
- No chart depends on color alone. Where two colors are hard to tell apart, the labels sit on the drawing and the table carries the values.
- We test that pages still work at 320 pixels wide with no sideways scrolling. Every page passes today.
- We test that every page has one main heading and no skipped heading levels. Every page passes today.
- We test that every link has a name, every image has a text alternative, and no link opens a new tab without saying so.
- Animation stops for anyone whose device asks for reduced motion.
- We check the site's colors against four kinds of color blindness before we add one.
These run automatically before we publish. When one fails, we do not publish.
If something on this site blocks you
Please tell us. Say which page, and what happened. Write to accessibility@worksbetter.org, our dedicated address for this, or use the contact page. Both reach a person.
To write to us on paper, use the address of our registered office. It is the address on our Certificate of Incorporation, and it reaches our registered agent:
Works Better Corporation
c/o Corporation Service Company
251 Little Falls Drive
Wilmington, DE 19808
We aim to reply within five working days. If we cannot fix the problem quickly, we will tell you what we are doing and get you the information another way. Every figure on this site comes from a published record, and we will point you at it.
What the site needs to work
The site is built from HTML, CSS, SVG and JavaScript. It is written to work with current versions of the common browsers and with the screen readers that come with them.
Some pages draw a chart with JavaScript. Every one of those pages also carries the same figures as ordinary text, so the page is still readable with JavaScript turned off.
We have not tested this site with every screen reader and browser pair. Saying we had would be a claim we cannot back.
The rules we hold ourselves to
No federal rule sets a technical accessibility standard for a private website. Section 508 binds federal agencies. The Justice Department's 2024 web rule binds state and local government. Colorado's own digital accessibility law binds public entities and state agencies.
None of those binds us. We use the same yardstick anyway. A site whose subject is how well government serves people should not hold itself to less than it holds them to.
When this page changes
The list above is built from a file in our code. A check fails our build if an item on it has been fixed and left here. So the list shrinks when we fix something, in the same release. It grows when we find something new.
The date beside the list is the date we last checked, not the date we last edited the page. A statement with no date is a claim with no vintage.
- 10 September 2026. First published.
- 14 September 2026. List emptied under WCAG 2.1 Level AA.
- 15 September 2026. Measured against WCAG 2.2 Level AA.
- 15 September 2026. The last item found by the WCAG 2.2 pass, the front door's step numerals, was repaired and retracted the same day; the list is empty under 2.2.