ADA Title II Compliance: Take a Team Approach in Public Health, Healthcare, and Public Safety

This is the third post in a blog series about the updated Title II Rule in the Americans with Disabilities (ADA).

In the first post, we talked about what the Title II Rule change is, why it is important to our field, and we highlighted important compliance dates.

In the second post, we discussed how to get started. Specifically, we highlighted how to fight overwhelm and start by taking small action steps.

Today, we are talking about why it is important to take a team approach to Title II compliance and digital accessibility.

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EducationalLeah RomanPublic health, Health education, NHEW, accessibilityComment
ADA Title II Compliance: Where to Start in Public Health, Healthcare, and Public Safety?

This is the second post in a blog series about the updated Title II Rule in the Americans with Disabilities (ADA).

In the first series post, we talked about what the Title II Rule change is, why it is important to our field, and we highlighted important compliance dates.

Today, we are talking about how to get started! We discuss fighting overwhelm and highlight some specific action steps to “start small” in our Title II planning.

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EducationalLeah Romanaccessibility, Public health, NHEWComment
Updated Title II Rule for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): Why It Matters for Public Health, Healthcare, and Public Safety Workforces

On April 24, 2024, the Federal Register published the Department of Justice’s final rule updating its regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Title II of the ADA mandates that state and local governments ensure their services, programs, and activities are accessible to individuals with disabilities.

This change is highly relevant to the settings where public health, healthcare, and public safety professionals work and the services we provide. This post gives an overview of Title II, why it matters for our workforces, and highlights important compliance dates.

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EducationalLeah RomanPublic health, Instructional Design, NHEW, accessibilityComment
September 2025 Webinar: How to Build Accessibility Planning into Your Health Education Training Workflow

RPH Consulting has a webinar collaboration with SOPHE on September 17, 2025.

Designing accessible health education training content has wide-ranging individual and organizational-level benefits. These include compliance with funder and legal requirements, reaching a broader learning audience, creating a better user experience, and shifting from an individual accommodation-based framework to designing for all learners. Unfortunately, accessibility planning is often an afterthought in our workforce development efforts. It is a quick final review to confirm we have video captions or transcripts. It is an item to be checked off before our training or course launches.

Join the webinar and let’s learn together how to change that!

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RPH Presentation, RPH ServicesLeah RomanPublic health, Health education, Training, accessibility, CHESComment
Disability Inclusion in Public Health: How We Can Strengthen Workforce Capacity

I had the pleasure of watching the recent NACCHO webinar “Embedding Disability Inclusion in Public Health: Strategies to Strengthen Systems and Workforce Capacity.”

Their Health and Disability team conducted a landscape analysis to identify systems-level strategies that help local health departments (LHDs) build workforce capacity and embed disability expertise into core public health practices.

Today, I’m sharing key takeaways and resources from the webinar, along with their applications to my work in public health instructional design, with a special interest in accessibility.

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Professional Development, AdvocacyLeah Romanaccessibility, disability, Public health, webinar, Professional DevelopmentComment