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Accessibility Policy

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Prince George’s County ADA Notification (PDF)

Portable Document Format (PDF)

Assistance for Americans with Disabilities

This website has been designed with consideration for those who use web accessibility assistive technology. If you are having difficulty accessing any file or page on this website due to difficulties with adaptive technologies, please contact us via the Customer Service Feedback Form for assistance so that your question can be researched.

Notice Under the Americans with Disabilties Act

In accordance with the requirements of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, the County will not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in the County’s services, programs, or activities.

Employment: The County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in its hiring or employment practices and complies with all regulations promulgated by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Effective Communication: The County will generally, upon request, provide appropriate aids and services leading to effective communication for qualified persons with disabilities so they can participate equally in the County’s programs, services, and activities, including qualified sign language interpreters, documents in Braille, and other ways of making information and communications accessible to people who have speech, hearing, or vision impairments.

Modifications to Policies and Procedures: The County will make all reasonable modifications to policies and programs to ensure that people with disabilities have an equal opportunity to enjoy all County programs, services, and activities. For example, individuals with service animals are welcomed in County offices, even where pets are generally prohibited.

Anyone who requires an auxiliary aid or service for effective communication, or a modification of policies or procedures to participate in a County program, service, or activity, should contact the County’s Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) Coordinator as soon as possible, but not later than 48 hours before the scheduled event. If you believe that a County program, service, or activity is not accessible to persons with disabilities, please direct your complaint to Patricia Sanders, ADA Coordinator, at (301) 985-3800/Maryland Relay 711.

The ADA does not require the County to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative burden.

The County will not place a surcharge on a particular individual with a disability or any group of individuals with disabilities to cover the cost of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs.

Prince George’s County
Department of Family Services
Mental Health and Disabilities Administration
(301) 985-3800/Maryland Relay 711

Prince George’s County ADA Notification (PDF)

Additional Resources

Browsealoud

To further assist people with disabilities, Prince George’s County now offers speech enabled content via Browsealoud. The service is designed to provide speech-enabled content to users with:

This site is speech enabled. Click here to download browsealoud.
  • Low literacy and reading skills.
  • Limited English proficiency.
  • Dyslexia or related disabilities.
  • Mild visual impairment.

PDF File

Many downloadable files on our site are supported by a Portable Document Format (pdf).

What is a PDF file?

A Portable Document Format (pdf) file is a self-contained cross-platform document. In plain language, it is a file that will look the same on the screen and in print, regardless of what kind of computer or printer someone is using and regardless of what software package was originally used to create it.

Although they contain the complete formatting of the original document, including fonts and images, PDF files are highly compressed, allowing complex information to be downloaded efficiently.

To view and print PDF documents you must have a browser that supports the PDF format natively or through plug-ins (e.g. Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer) or you can use an external application, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader or Adobe Acrobat Exchange. Both the plug-ins and Adobe Acrobat Reader are free from Adobe Systems.

To download the free Acrobat Reader from the Adobe Web Site: Download the latest version of Adobe Reader


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