In accordance with the requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), the West Jordan City Government will not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs, or activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Employment<\/strong>: The West Jordan City Government does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its hiring or employment practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Effective Communication<\/strong>: The West Jordan City Government will generally, upon request, provide appropriate aids and services, such as sign language interpreters and alternative text such as Braille, in order to effectively communicate with qualified persons with disabilities so they can participate equally in the City of West Jordan’s programs, services, and activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modifications to Policies and Procedures<\/strong>: The West Jordan City Government will make all reasonable modifications to policies, procedures, and programs to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to enjoy all of its programs, services, and activities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The West Jordan City Government believes that the internet services we provide should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium\u2019s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website\u2019s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website\u2019s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here\u2019s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS, and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating, and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Complaints that a program, service, or activity of the City of West Jordan is not accessible to persons with disabilities should be directed to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Human ResourcesWebsite Compliance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Screen-reader and keyboard navigation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, the background process scans all of the website\u2019s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
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Additionally, keyboard users will find quick navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first element of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus to drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as \u201cM\u201d (menus), \u201cH\u201d (headings), \u201cF\u201d (forms), \u201cB\u201d (buttons), and \u201cG\u201d (graphics) to jump to specific elements.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\nDisability profiles supported on our website<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Additional UI, design, and readability adjustments<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Assistive technology and browser compatibility<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Notes, comments, and feedback<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
City of West Jordan
8000 S. Redwood Rd.
West Jordan, UT 84088
Phone: (801) 569-5165 Fax: (801) 563-4747<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-2049","policy","type-policy","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n