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This page checks CROL-List against standards New York City and New York State have published. One part covers languages. The other covers accessibility. What we actually do is stated as a plain observation, never as a certification.

Language access, side by side

New York City's Local Law 30 of 2017 (opens in new tab) names ten citywide languages, beyond English, that city agencies must support. The table below checks that list against CROL-List's own language switcher, live: if a language is ever added to or removed from the switcher, this table changes with it.

Local Law 30's ten languages compared to CROL-List's language switcher
Language (Local Law 30) In CROL-List's switcher Translation review status
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The accessibility target, and where it's headed

Today
New York City's own website accessibility statement (opens in new tab) targets WCAG 2.1 Level AA and describes the City's sites as "partially conformant."
January 2027
New York State's technology law (STL §103-d (opens in new tab)) requires State Entity websites to move up to WCAG 2.2 Level AA. That binds state agencies, not New York City directly — but it is the clearest published signal of where the standard is heading next.

CROL-List's own accessibility posture

These are targets and continuous observations, not a certification.

CROL-List target
CROL-List targets WCAG 2.2 Level AA today.
Continuous observations
  • The axe accessibility gate runs on every pull request across each public page and activated tab state. A new critical or serious violation fails the build.
  • The Local Law 30 table above reads the site's current language switcher live. It changes when a language is added to or removed from the switcher.
  • The reading-level ratchet runs on every pull request across the public pages. A page that gets harder to read than its committed baseline fails the gate.

What we actually built (checked on this page)

None of this is a certification. Some lines are checked live against this page's own markup. The rest are plain facts about how the site works. View source any time to check for yourself.

Snapshots over time

Every time the published standard moves, or our own posture changes, we add a dated entry below instead of editing the numbers above. The record stays honest even when the target does not.

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