Accessibility

The City of Menlo Park is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, the City of Menlo Park strives to maintain a website that is highly compliant with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, WCAG 2.1 Level AA, produced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C, the web's governing body) and commercial screen reading software. Our website is coded to allow individuals with vision and other impairments to understand and use the website to the same degree as someone without disabilities. We welcome feedback and can often resolve issues in a timely manner if they arise. If you need any special assistance or accommodations regarding this website, please contact us. 

Using this site

If you use assistive technology (such as a Braille reader, a screen reader, or TTY) and the format of any material on this Web site interferes with your ability to access information, please contact us. To enable us to respond in a manner most helpful to you, please indicate the nature of your accessibility problem, the preferred format in which to receive the material, the Web address of the requested material, and your contact information. Users who need accessibility assistance can also contact us by phone through the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY/Voice communication.

Accessibility design guidelines

Our website has been designed with the following accessibility guidelines in mind:

• The standard font used throughout the site has been chosen to be easily legible.
• Wherever possible, we use live text instead of graphics to reduce the download time of pages and increase your control.
• Our pages are designed to display without horizontal scrollbars when they are viewed at a screen resolution of 1024x768 pixels.
• No information is exclusively conveyed using color. This doesn't mean that colors are not used to organize information; instead it means there are also other, non-color dependent ways of doing this.
• All images and hyperlinks, where appropriate, have an alternative text attribute. This means when an image or hyperlink is conveying important information its content is described with an alternative text.
• We have attempted specifically to comply with Section 508 referring to website accessibility standards.
• If you have difficulty accessing the site or have any comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Accessibility in modern web browsers

Many popular browsers contain built-in accessibility tools.

• Firefox accessibility information
• Google Chrome accessibility information
• Microsoft Edge accessibility information

PDF Reader

PDF reader software is required to view and print PDF documents that appear on this website. We recommend Adobe's free PDF Reader software.

• To download this program for free, visit the Adobe website.
• To read PDF documents with a screen reader please visit the Adobe Reader Accessibility website that provides useful tools and resources.

Additional file types

Free software is available to access additional file types that may be found on this website.