A demonstration. This is not the city's website. It is a working proposal for the City of Mission, built with the city's real logo, officials and departments. Every agenda item, vote, vehicle and dollar figure is invented, and each page says so. About this proposal Developed by Pragmatic Business Solutions, LLC (opens in a new tab), a Rio Grande City, TX custom software company.

A butterfly on wildflowers in Mission, Texas.

A proposal for the City of Mission

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 Mission's own logo, 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

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.

What we measured on the city's current site

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.

The council and its record

The city

  • 85,778Residents
  • 1908Founded
  • 30Departments
  • 355Vehicles

Mission sits on Business 83 in Hidalgo County, founded in 1908 and named for La Lomita, the chapel that still stands south of town and that the city carries in its seal. The Ruby Red grapefruit was discovered in a Mission grove in 1929, the Texas Citrus Fiesta has run here since 1932, and the butterflies that give the city its other name are why people drive down from Dallas in November.