The Wayne County Care Center is committed to providing a fully accessible website experience for all users of all abilities, including those who rely on assistive technologies like screen readers, screen enlargement software, and alternative keyboard input devices to navigate the web.

Ongoing Efforts to Ensure Accessibility

We follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.1 as our guiding principle for determining accessibility. These are internationally agreed-upon standards that cover a wide range of recommendations and best practices for making content useable. As we add new pages and functionality to our website, all designs, code, and content entry practices are checked against these standards.

Website accessibility is an ongoing process. We continually test content and features for WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance and remediate any issues to ensure we meet or exceed the standards. Testing of our website is performed by our team members using industry-standard tools such as Iris by Birdeye, color contrast analyzers, keyboard-only navigation techniques, and Flesch-Kincaid readability tests.

Accessibility Features on Our Website

The following is a list of items we have included in our website to improve its accessibility:

  • Seizure Safe: stops animations and reduces saturation to prevent seizure triggers.
  • Vision Impaired: enhances contrast, font size, highlights titles and links.
  • Cognitive Disability: readable font, increased spacing and content highlights.
  • ADHD Friendly: read mode, stops animation and reduces distractions.
  • Screen Reader:  ARIA enhancements for JAWS, NVDA and Voiceover
  • Keyboard Navigation: Full keyboard with ALT+key shortcuts
  • PDF Accessibility: Uploaded and converted to HTML for ADA

Where We’re Improving

In our efforts to bring our website up to standard, we are targeting the following areas:

  • Navigation

This is part of our broader effort to make everyone’s experience at the Wayne County Care Center a welcoming and enjoyable one. Please note that while we make every effort to provide information accessible for all users, we cannot guarantee the accessibility of third-party websites to which we may link.

Accessibility Support Contact

We welcome comments, questions, and feedback on our website. If you are using assistive technologies and are having difficulty using our website, please email commit@wayneohio.org. We will do our best to assist you and resolve issues.