Things worth knowing if you run a fire department website. Accessibility, the federal deadline, and getting people to actually apply. Every claim here links to its source, and the sources are primary.
You recruit hard at the booth, then send people to a website with no application, no requirements and no name to contact. Five things a recruitment page needs, a ten minute check you can run on your phone, and the scanned-PDF trap that is also an accessibility problem.
If your department is a fire protection district or part of a town or county, yes, and the date is April 26, 2028. If it is a private volunteer company, it depends. Five questions that tell you which one you are, with the rule linked throughout.
The standard the federal rule names, in plain language and without the jargon. What it asks for, what it does not, and which parts of a typical department site fail it today.
There is a good chance your department is already on the board, with a finished site built to WCAG 2.1 AA, online right now and waiting.