A proposal for the City of Edinburg
A city website nobody has to audit later
Accessibility is not a report you buy after the site is built. It is a property of how it is built. This is the City of Edinburg's own seal, own officials, own departments and own photographs — rebuilt so that every page passes a conformance check before it is allowed to publish.
What this replaces, and what it costs you not to See the fleet dashboard
- A website nobody has to audit later — WCAG 2.2 AA checked on every page, every build
- Both languages, written — not machine-translated
- 9 city vehicles on the road right now
The three things this proposal shows
Not a slide deck. Three working pieces of the same platform, each one built on the city's real structure.
Agendas and minutes, as textThe August council meeting: every motion, the recusal with its affidavit, and how each member voted by name — searchable, translatable, and readable by a screen reader.
The public record
Fleet GPS and maintenanceWhere every city vehicle is on a real map of Edinburg, what it is doing, and which ones cannot legally be driven tomorrow morning.
16 units on this view
Two apps, one systemWhat a resident sees when they report a pothole, and what the crew sees when it lands on their board. The same record from both ends.
Resident and staff
Why you would not need to buy an audit
An accessibility audit tells you what is wrong after you have paid to build it wrong. It is a bill for a problem that a different build would not have had.
- The check runs on every build, not once a year. Every page on this site is tested for a unique title, one h1, no skipped heading levels, alternative text on every image, a name on every control and link, a skip link, and no broken internal link. If any page fails, the build stops and nothing publishes.
- The colours were checked before they were chosen. Every colour here is measured off the city's own seal, and every pair a reader sees is run through a contrast test that gates the deploy. Body text is 16.4:1 — above AAA.
- The page a screen reader needs most is the one built best. The public record is a web page here, not a document inside a viewer.
Who decides
Your mayor and council
The elected members and the office that carries out what they decide. Every one of those decisions appears first on a posted agenda — and on this build, every vote appears afterwards with each member's name against it.
Mayor
Council Member, Place 1
Council Member, Place 2
Council Member · Mayor Pro Tem
Council Member, Place 4
Myra L. AyalaCity Manager
The city
- 100,243Residents
- 1908Founded
- 34Departments
- 355Vehicles
Edinburg is the seat of Hidalgo County, laid out in 1908 as Chapin and renamed three years later. The county courthouse, the university and the ballpark are all inside four square miles of each other, the city has been named an All-America City three times — 1968, 1995 and 2024, the years its own seal carries — and it is still the fastest-growing city of its size in the Valley.