County · Maryland

Washington County

154,707 people · Deadline April 26, 2027 · washco-md.net · 20 pages and a keyboard test, checked November 2, 2026

Status

Scanned

From our checks · November 2026

Not yet claimed by its staff

44out of 100

ScoreFar behindMany problems found across the pages checkedAutomated checks of 20 pages, November 2, 2026. They find many problems, not all.

1critical barrier

Controls a resident can’t use at all. Any one keeps a site at Behind, whatever its score.

Compared

Maryland counties of 100,000 to 249,999 people average 81.

Fixing the 1 critical barrier would raise this from 44 (Far behind) to 48 (Behind).

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What we found

What is wrong and who it affects, most serious first.

1
1 button has no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says just “button”, with no clue to what it does.

Critical barrierBlocks a task
- Screen readers
- Voice control
204
Text in 204 places is too faint against its background, so people with low vision, or anyone reading a phone in sunlight, may struggle to read it.
- Low vision
- Color blindness
44
44 links have no name, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says just “link”, with no clue to where they go.
- Screen readers
- Voice control
33
33 embedded sections, such as maps, videos or forms from other sites, have no title, so a blind visitor’s screen reader can’t say what they are.
- Screen readers
28
28 buttons or links are so small, or so close to others, that people with shaky hands may tap the wrong thing.

Not in the score
- Limited hand movement
21
21 images have no description, so a blind visitor’s screen reader says only “image” or reads out file names.
- Screen readers
13
13 controls sit inside others, such as buttons inside links, so screen readers may skip some of them and keyboard users may not reach them.
- Screen readers
- Keyboard users
6
6 pages have to be scrolled sideways on a narrow phone screen, so people who enlarge text must scroll back and forth to read each line.
- Low vision
6
6 list items sit outside a list, so screen readers may not announce them as part of one.
- Screen readers
2
2 controls show no sign when a keyboard user moves to them, so they can’t tell where they are on the page.

Not in the score
- Keyboard users
- Low vision
1
1 menu, list or set of tabs is built incompletely, so screen readers may announce it without its items or not let a blind visitor move through them.
- Screen readers

The keyboard test

We pressed Tab 116 times through the homepage, as someone who can’t use a mouse would. What it found is shown here and is not yet counted in the score.

Problem: 1 control shows no sign of focus. Keyboard users may not be able to tell where they are.

Questions about this page

Does this mean the county is breaking the law?

No. This is an automated check against WCAG 2.1 AA, the standard the ADA Title II rule sets for state and local governments. Automated checks find many problems but not all, and only a full review can say whether a site meets the rule.

How often is this page updated?

Every three months, in January, April, July and October. Once its staff claim this page, they can also scan the site again, once a day; the new result shows here like our regular check, marked as checked at their request. The date at the top shows the latest check, and the score can go up as problems are fixed.

How can the county respond?

Staff with an email address ending in @washco-md.net can claim this page to set its status for residents, see where each problem is, and scan the site again. Think a result is wrong? Tell us and we will check it again.

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