City of Chico, CA

On October 23, 2026, this review followed public links across 150 pages on chicoca.gov and found 3,094 PDFs. 3,091 PDFs are City of Chico, CA documents, including 516 in the site's document storage. 3 links to other organizations were excluded. This review checked 111 of them, covering 1,446 pages. This review stopped at its page limit, so a PDF linked only from a page that was not reached is not included.

Of the 111 PDFs checked, 49 (44%) have no tags. 17 (15%) are fully or partly scanned images with no text a screen reader can read. 88 (79%) have no document title and 58 (52%) have no language set. 15 (14%) passed every basic check. Passing these checks is not a certification that the PDF is accessible.

87 PDFs look like forms, applications, or current notices. They are likely still in use for a service or program, so the pre-existing document exception is unlikely to apply. 38 high- or medium-priority PDFs that fail a basic check account for 386 pages. Checked PDFs that fail a basic check total 1,394 pages. 8 other high- or medium-priority PDFs passed the basic checks and are still on the fix list because they appear to be in use.

627 PDFs are in an area labeled as an archive and may qualify for the archived-content exception. 16 older PDFs may qualify if they are moved into a clearly labeled archive. Confirm this before relying on an exception.

Under the Department of Justice rule (28 CFR 35.200, as extended in April 2026), the WCAG 2.1 AA compliance date for City of Chico, CA (City (population 50,000 or more)) is April 26, 2027.

This is an inventory and an exception register, not a compliance certification. Methodology explains what the checks cover and what they do not.