In student-run newsrooms at public colleges, what does the practical work of making a publication digitally accessible actually involve, especially when it comes to older archives, images without alt text, videos without captions, and legacy website content? I am reporting on how college news organizations are responding to the Department of Justice’s 2024 rule requiring public institutions to meet WCAG 2.1 accessibility standards by April 2026, and I am interested in the real workload behind compliance for smaller or student-run publications with limited staff and large back catalogs. In practice, how difficult is it to bring older content up to modern accessibility standards, and how do newsrooms decide what is realistic to update? Were student publications already thinking about accessibility as part of audience reach or digital best practices, or are many only confronting it now because of the new requirements? What technical, staffing, or editorial challenges should they expect?