“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged
and used up in order to exist at all.” -William Faulkner

Webinar Wednesday: Accessibility Audits and Remediation - Where to Start
The Colorado legislature passed HB21-1110 requiring all Colorado governments to meet current WCAG guidelines for accessibility compliance by July 1, 2024. If you aren't sure where to start to accomplish this goal, then this webinar is for you! Allyant believes every organization's journey toward equitable access should be simple and seamless - eliminating the worry, stress and uncertainty often associated with accessibility. Learn from the team at Allyant how to address all aspects of accessibility, including digital, document and print mediums. Register to join us on December 13th at 10am!

This month, the Technology Accessibility Program (TAP) team in the Governor's Office of Information Technology launched the Empathy Lab, a virtual inclusion and awareness lab designed to expand awareness and a desire to create accessible and equitable digital products. The lab features an experiential learning site with 19 exercises designed to show, rather than tell, the power of accessibility. 

OIT's November accessibility newsletter has more about this as well as an Accessible Procurement Toolkit for the State, and How To Write Great Alt Text.

SIPA is pleased to announce new accessibility suppliers!

New Service Launches

• Microsoft / Resultant - Bridges of Colorado & City of Lafayette
• Granicus - Department of Labor and Employment
• OGx - Department of Human Services
• Slalom - City and County of Broomfield
• Virtru - Prowers County
• Allyant - Office of Information Technology
• Istonish - Department Public Health and Environment
• Propeller - Department of Early Childhood
• DocuSign - Douglas County

Tyler Colorado's Digital Government Services

• AccessGov - Conejos County
• PromptPay - Department of Revenue
• PayPort - Berthoud Fire Protection District
• Website - Berthoud Fire Protection District
• Website - Bridges of Colorado
• Website - La Plata Regional Housing Alliance

New SIPA Customers

• Rio Grande Conservation District
• Roxborough Village Metropolitan District
• Town of Manzanola

COLORADO.GOV PLATFORM UPDATES!

The colorado.gov website platform is upgrading to Drupal 10 (D10)! Information, training and the migration schedule can be found at cms.colorado.gov. A few highlights: • There is nothing current users need to do to prepare. • Training sessions are available to learn new features and functionality. Join the training sessions hosted at 10 a.m. on 12/6 and 12/20. The link to join can be found at https://cms.colorado.gov/ Please feel free to reach out with any questions or if you are looking to have a website on colorado.gov. Just send us an email at sipa@coloardo.gov.

CISA released its Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence—in alignment with White House Executive Order 14110: Safe, Secure, And Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence—to outline a comprehensive set of actions CISA will take along five lines of effort:

1. Responsibly use AI to support our mission.
2. Assure AI systems.
3. Protect critical infrastructure from malicious use of AI.
4. Collaborate and communicate on key AI efforts with the interagency, international partners, and the public.
5. Expand AI expertise in our workforce.

Learn more about CISA’s Roadmap for Artificial Intelligence at cisa.gov/AI.

▪️ Watch our presentation for the Colorado Innovation    Conference on AccessGov for Workflow Efficiency ▪️ Change the alert banner on your website! ▪️ How to get a .gov domain for emails and websites ▪️ Sign up to receive notifications from Tyler Colorado's Digital     Government Services Statuspage

Digital Government Services (DGS) on Colorado.gov DGS: Payment Processing, Websites, Forms Check out websites on Colorado.gov Website training is here. Demo site here. Changing the alert banner on your website? Tutorial here