Accessibility

Website Accessibility Design Guidelines

Mountain Water and Sanitation District

Website Accessibility Statement

Mountain Water and Sanitation District (the “District”) is fully committed to providing accessible facilities, elements and channels of communication to all members of the public. As part of this commitment, the District has a policy of providing an accessible website compatible with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and commercial screen reading software. All features of the website are 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.

Ongoing Compliance Information

Compliance Officer

The District has designated a compliance officer for website disability-related accommodations. The compliance officer has received training in website accessibility and updates the site in accordance with those best practices. Contact our accessibility officer to report an issue.

Compliance Procedures and Reports

In addition to testing with users with a wide range of disabilities and coding our website to WCAG standards, the District regularly scans its website to ensure ongoing compliance, and makes timely changes to any inaccessible changes, if any are found.

Linked Documents and Third Parties

Please note that this site may link out to third-party websites, such as state or federal agencies, that do not have accessible content. This site may also include documents provided by third parties included in our agenda packets, for example. While we cannot control the accessibility of content provided by third parties, we are happy to assist any member of the public with reading and accessing content on our site.

See an opportunity for us to improve? Please contact our accessibility officer at tc@mtwaterandsan.com or via telephone at (303) 838-1800.

Progress-To-Date Report - July 1, 2024

The Mountain Water and Sanitation District (the “District”) is committed to continued work to maintain an accessible website as described in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA and HB21-1110 and HB24-1454 (the “accessibility standards”). The District will be updating this report quarterly based on the Compliance Stages described as Exhibit A.

As of July 1, 2024, the District makes the following progress report and is on Step Three:

Stage One:           The District has assessed the accessibility of the website and noted actions that must be taken to improve the site’s accessibility.

Stage Two:          The District or a representative has attended various training seminars and webinars related to website accessibility and remediation.

Stage Three:    The District has taken steps to assign a compliance officer and/or contract with a website host to begin maintaining and/or updating the website pages to be navigable and accessible to all users.

Stage Four:        The District has prepared a plan and policy to comply with the necessary accessibility standards and actions necessary to remediate all documents found on the District’s website to be accessible to all users.

Stage Five:          The District has completed all necessary updates to become compliant with accessibility standards and will continue monitoring and updating the website indefinitely.

The District intends to complete all Stages no later than July 1, 2025.

Mountain Water & Sanitation District makes every possible effort to make this website compliant with the American with Disabilities Act. We welcome comments on how to improve the​ website's accessibility for users with disabilities.

This 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.
  • 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 call us directly or contact us through this website.
  • We work to comply with Section 508 as well as 2.0 A and AA referring to website accessibility standards.
  • If you have difficulty accessing this site or have any comments or feedback, please do not hesitate to call us directly or contact us through this website.

If you use assistive technology (such as a Braille reader, a screen reader, or TTY) and the format of any material on this website interferes with your ability to access information, please contact us. Alternatively, users who need accessibility assistance can contact us by phone through the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY/Voice communication.

To help us serve you better, please include the following information when contacting us:

  • the nature of your accessibility problem
  • the web address of the requested material
  • the format in which you prefer to receive the material, and
  • your contact information

Web Browser Accessibility Tools

Many popular web browsers contain built-in accessibility tools. Please follow the links below for instructions on optimizing web browsers for persons with accessibility issues.

Other Resources