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The Department of Information Technology, along with the Office of Public Affairs and with input from the Disability Services Board, works to ensure that all county departments and agencies comply with these standards by providing technical assistance and accessibility awareness to their staff. The county Web technical standards include guidelines for accessibility and the county Web Accessibility Standards include steps which all developers and content contributors are required to follow when developing and maintaining Web pages. Web browsers are updated frequently to offer new features, improve performance and most importantly, address security issues. The county website is optimized for the latest recommended version of the major browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Safari) that are in the current official release, and one release prior as supported by the vendor. You can download a free copy of a PDF Reader at Adobe or Foxit. There are numerous Portable Document Format (PDF) documents, forms and brochures on the Fairfax County Website to help users download and print easily. To navigate through text-only PDF files using a screen reader, such as JAWS, you will need a PDF reader.

Contact information is provided consistently throughout the site at the bottom of each page along with links to information about ADA Accessibility and Website Accessibility.

Content such as podcasts include a text-only version so users can still access the information regardless of format.ĭepartments and agencies of the county provide alternative formatted documents of information from the Website upon request. In an effort to improve accessibility, the county Website utilizes various features like text sizing to increase font size use of descriptive alternative text or 'alt tags' on images to aid users who listen to content on the site using a screen reader text only version of the Website and a 'skip to' link which allows users to bypass the header and go directly to the main content of the page.