City of Pickering - Accessible Pickering

Accessible Pickering

The City of Pickering is committed to providing our community with accessible programs, services and resources.

Accessible Pickering is an easy and convenient way to access information about accessibility within Pickering and the broader community.

Links:

2011 Accessibility Plan
Access Ontario [external website]
Accessibility Advisory Committee
Accessible Customer Service Statement
Accessible Programs, Services, Equipment
BrowseAloud
Community Resources [contact directory for groups and services]
Disability Doorway [external website]
Language Resources [for City services only]
Program Cancellations & Services Disruptions
Seniors & Persons with Disabilities Snow Clearing Program
Temporary Road Closures
Transportation - Durham Region Transit Specialized Services [external website]

Forms:

By-laws:

Property Standards By-law [PDF]
Traffic & Parking By-law [PDF]

Policy:

Accessibility Standards for Customer Service Policy [PDF]

Website:

Following is a description of tools that will assist you to navigate this website.

Scalable viewing to make text and web content more readable for the visually impaired, may be accessed as follows:

holding the control key, use the scroll wheel on your mouse to scale the content pages larger or smaller
in Mozilla Firefox, the website size can also be adjusted by accessing the View menu, then Zoom controls
in Internet Explorer, content text size can be adjusted by accessing the View menu, then Text Size controls.

Alternative Text

Images on this web-site have alternative text attributes, often known as alt text. This means that the image can be understood by text browsers and assistive technologies such as screen readers.

Browsealoud

Browsealoud is a software program that reads aloud all website content and is free to users. As you move the cursor over words, they are spoken aloud. To find out more and to download the program visit http://www.browsealoud.com/ca/download

Software Utilities

Some documents on this web-site are available in a PDF format. Adobe Reader is required to open these files, and is available free of charge by clicking here.

Online conversion tools for Adobe PDF documents: Adobe's PDF Converter allows you to convert PDF files to text or HTML.