Local government website accessibility

Hello,

I am a web developer for a city government in North Carolina. We are 
moving towards increasing the accessibility of our web site. I have been 
trying to find other local governments that have adopted accessibility 
design standards, much like San Jose, so we can compare what other 
communities have done.

We currently have an extremely non-accessible site. There are some in my 
organization who would like to maintain a separate "text-only" site, 
especially since the site was redesigned less than a year ago. I feel 
that we should instead redesign our site to make it accessible to all, 
and then only maintain the one site. I'm concerned it will be an uphill 
battle to convince the powers-that-be that we should not have a separate 
text-only site. Does anyone have any advice for arguing this issue?

Thanks,
Ken

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