Website Accessibility
Manatee County is committed to making our website accessible to all users, including those with disabilities. Our goal is to provide an accessible website that conforms to World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Levels A and AA.We continue to make every effort to test the website and to remove barriers that prevent persons with disabilities from interacting with or accessing information made available on our website.
If we become aware of content that does not conform to the WCAG 2.0 Levels A and AA standards, we will make reasonable good faith efforts to make the content conform to the standards.
Screen readers
To assist our visitors who are visually impaired or blind, our website is compatible with screen reading software.
Portable Document Format (PDF) Files
Download the latest free version of Adobe Reader in order to improve the viewing of these files. We are currently working on our processes to ensure all PDFs are accessible.
While we strive to adhere to the accepted guidelines and standards for accessibility and usability, it is not always possible to do so in all areas of the website, particularly as it relates to content by third parties. If you are unable to access information on our website, please email us at 311@mymanatee.org or call us at (941) 742-5800 to request the information in another format. The County will make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In accordance with the requirements of 28 C.F.R. § 35.106 and 107, Manatee County Government provides the following notice and designation.
Policy
In accordance with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) Manatee County Government will not exclude from participation in, or deny the benefits of, its services, programs or activities to a qualified individual with a disability. The ADA does not require Manatee County Government to take any action that would fundamentally alter the nature of its programs or services, or impose an undue financial or administrative burden.
Effective Communication
Manatee County Government will generally, upon request, provide appropriate aids and services to facilitate an effective means of communication for qualified persons with disabilities so they may meaningfully participate in County programs, services, and activities. Such aids and services may include, but are not limited to, qualified sign language interpreters, converting documents to alternative formats, and other ways of making information and communications accessible to people who have speech, hearing or vision impairments.
Policy & Procedure Modification
Manatee County Government will make lawful and reasonable modifications to its policies and procedures where doing so will allow qualified persons with a disability to participate in or receive the benefit of its services, programs or activities.
Aid or Modification Requests
Disabled persons desiring auxiliary aids or services or policy or procedure modification related to a Manatee County Government program, service or activity should contact the Department or operating unit offering the program as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled event. Agendas for all meetings and workshops of the Board of County Commissioners provide the contact information for requests related to attendance at or participation in the Board’s meetings.
Make an Accommodation Request
Access Charge Prohibited
Manatee County Government 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.
Coordinator Designation
The following individual is designated by Manatee County Government as the person responsible for coordinating the County’s compliance with its obligations under Title II of the ADA to provide access to its programs, services or activities, and with responding to complaints associated with any alleged noncompliance:
- are spam or include links to other sites
- are clearly off topic
- advocate illegal activity
- promote or oppose particular services, products, or political organizations and candidates
- infringe on copyrights or trademarks; or
- would be offensive to community standards of decency
If you browse or download information during your visit to this website, we collect, and store standard data collected by all web server software. That information is:
- The Internet Protocol (IP) address used for your connection (but not your email address). The IP address is a numerical identifier assigned either to your Internet service provider or directly to your computer. We use the Internet IP to respond to your browser request. Example: 172.20.17.75
- The domain name assigned to your IP Address (if there is one). Example: somedomain.com
- The type of browser and operating system you used. Example: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows NT; IE4WDUS-1998101501)
- The date and time you visited this site
- The web pages or services you accessed at this site
- The website you visited prior to coming to this site. (Note: this is included so that summary analysis can be done on how visitors get to our site, i.e., from a search engine, from a link on another site, etc.)
We do summarize the information listed above to determine:
- What visitors are our most frequent users (item 2 above) to better target our content for the audience
- What browsers are being used on our site to determine what techniques we should use to develop pages that will work with different browsers (item 3 above)
- How often our pages are being visited (item 5 above)
- Traffic from organization names such as search engines that direct people to the site (item 6 above)
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, this site may monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information or otherwise cause damage. If security monitoring reveals evidence of possible abuse or criminal activity, system personnel may provide the results of such monitoring to appropriate officials. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempts are made to identify individual users or their usage habits. Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the state law and federal statutes.
Manatee County does not accept solicitations to add links to external websites and advertising is not allowed on the Manatee County website. Links from Manatee County's website to other sites on the internet do not constitute an endorsement of the County. When an organization or business sponsors or partners with the Manatee County for an event, project, program, campaign or similar, the County may display on the County website images and external links for the entity, to the extent that it pertains to the function or program.
External links are permitted when necessary to help the public obtain timely information about County-related programs, services, activities, policies or committees. These include links to sites operated by other government agencies, nonprofit organizations and private businesses. When you use one of these links, you are no longer on this site and this Privacy Notice will not apply. When you link to another website, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.
When you follow a link to one of these sites neither the County, nor any agency, officer, or employee of Manatee County warrants the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of any information published by these external sites, nor endorses any content, viewpoints, products, or services linked from these systems, and cannot be held liable for any losses caused by reliance on the accuracy, reliability or timeliness of their information. Portions of such information may be incorrect or not current. Any person or entity that relies on any information obtained from these systems does so at his or her own risk.