A proposal for the City of Pharr
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 Pharr's own seal, own officials, own departments and own video — 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 commission 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 Pharr, 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 commission
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.
City Commissioner
City Commissioner
City Commissioner
City Commissioner
City Commissioner
City Commissioner
Dr. Jonathan B. FloresCity Manager
The city
- 79,715Residents
- 1909Founded
- 27Departments
- 340Vehicles
Pharr sits on Business 83 in Hidalgo County — the Hub City, named for the highway department headquarters that landed here in 1932, on what was once called the longest Main Street in America. The international bridge at the south end of Cage Boulevard is the busiest produce crossing on the southern border.