Orange County Elections Office Website Certified Accessible

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections office recently had their website certified accessible by a third-party organization. The website was audited to make sure the content is accessible to people with disabilities.

Our local Lighthouse Works conducted the audit using automatic and manual testing of various pages on the elections office website. Analysts for Lighthouse Works who are blind and visually impaired performed these tests.

“We are very happy to have made our website fully accessible,” said Bill Cowles, Orange County Supervisor of Elections. “It is important that every voter – including voters with disabilities – has access to the information they need to vote.”

The Orange County Supervisor of Elections website was certified accessible according to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA. The website will have to be re-audited once a year to maintain its certification. The seal of certification is on the bottom of their website. For more information, visit www.ocfelections.com or call the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office at (407) 836-2070.

About Lighthouse Works Lighthouse Works provides job training, employment and career opportunities to help advance people who are visually impaired. Lighthouse Works operates as a subsidiary of Lighthouse Central Florida – Central Florida’s only private, nonprofit agency offering a comprehensive range of services to people living with sight impairment in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties. Lighthouse

Works is affiliated with the National Industries for the Blind, the nation’s largest employment resource for people who are blind.