General Disclaimer & Accessibility Information

The City of Watertown maintains this website to provide basic information about the municipality and present general information to the public.

The information on this website originates from various sources and may not be current. The City of Watertown does not warrant the accuracy or completeness of the information. Viewers should verify the accuracy of the information with the responsible City department, before acting on it.

Communications made through the email or messaging system of this website shall in no way constitute "legal notice" to the City of Watertown or any of its departments, officers, employees, agents, or representatives, where such notice to the City is required by any law, rule, or regulation.

For ease of accessibility, please review the items below if you are having trouble viewing any page or document.

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 the webmaster. 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.

Accessibility Design Guidelines

Our website has been designed with the following accessibility guidelines:

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 contact contact us.

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 which provides useful tools and resources.

AudioEye

To provide a fully accessible and optimized user experience for all site visitors, this website is monitored by audioeye.com to ensure an excellent user experience, regardless of the assistive technology being used to access this site or the specific abilities of those individuals seeking access to this site.

This website is regularly tested using a variety of assistive technologies. We recommend using the following web browser / screen reader combinations for an optimized experience:

For Windows users: JAWS and Chrome or NVDA and Firefox
For Mac users: VoiceOver and Safari or VoiceOver and Chrome
For mobile users: VoiceOver for the iPhone and TalkBack for Android devices