Union County Website Accessibility Commitment

Union County strives to ensure this website is accessible to individuals with disabilities. We use WCAG 2.0 and Section 508 guidelines, with support from a web accessibility evaluation tool, to create accessible web content. While accessibility is a top priority for us, we know that on a dynamic, frequently updated website we need to continually work to improve accessibility.

Accessibility Improvements

In order to bring important and immediate improvement to our website’s accessibility, we have applied an overlay widget to all pages that assists users with font size, text spacing, contrast, and more. Site users can access this widget by clicking on the small green icon in the left corner to customize their website viewing experience.

Once the PageAssist overlay widget is clicked, the user can adjust font, font size, text spacing and cursor size, among other options. 

Additionally, as we strive to continue to update our website's accessibility, we are working toward these enhancements:

• Provide training and education on accessibility guidelines and standards for Union County employees who contribute website content 

• Launch a chat feature that will answer resident questions and needs by translating our website content in 71 languages

• Execute an extensive manual website audit with support from a third-party vendor

• Audit all PDFs on the website to review accessibility

• Add closed captioning to Board of Commissioners meetings that are streamed live

Contact

If you do see accessibility issues on this website that we have not yet had a chance to address, please contact us and we will do our best to correct the issue as soon as possible.