GOODWILL SOUTHERN OHIO
ACCESSIBILITY STATEMENT


Making Our Lives Accessible
Accessibility means breaking down barriers in our communities -- and the wider world -- to ensure everyone has opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their community. If you don’t have a disability, you may not think twice about the curb cuts you cross on your way to work, closed captions that appear on your favorite TV shows, or signs marked “handicap accessible,” but to people with disabilities and their families, these are accessibility features that are vital for full inclusion in society. Learn more about accessibility and the ways in which we’re building a more accessible world.

What is accessibility?
Accessibility can be defined as whether someone with a disability can access, experience, or interact with something. This can apply to the following:
• Employment
• Public spaces
• Transportation
• Healthcare
• Technology
• Housing
• Education

Notice a pattern? The items listed above are vital resources or activities we should have in our lives; this is why accessibility is key to ensuring inclusion for people with disabilities.

Accessibility in public spaces, including the workplace and schools, is required by law with the passing of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. However, there are still many ways society falls short in ensuring our communities can be accessed by people with disabilities. It’s on all of us to consider accessibility.

What is web accessibility?
Web accessibility is about making sure people with disabilities can access websites.
With so much information and socialization happening online, it is crucial that we ensure everyone can access content on the internet.

Web accessibility includes captions for videos, descriptions of images, high contrast and resizing for text, screen-reader friendly websites, and more.

While Title II of the ADA rules that all state and federal websites must be accessible to people with disabilities, there is still a long way to go until the internet is barrier free.

To learn more about web accessibility, visit the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for guidelines for web designers and developers.

What does handicap accessible mean?
Typically, the term handicap accessible means a space or terrain can be traversed by someone who uses a wheelchair or other mobility aid. Note that the term ‘handicap’ is no longer used by the disability community; instead, you can say “accessible to disabled people.” Also, accessibility doesn’t just include people with mobility aids; it encompasses those with invisible disabilities, like chronic or mental illness, and autism.

What are the ADA accessibility guidelines?
There are hundreds of guidelines in the ADA for accessibility compliance. These guidelines pertain to building entrances, ramp inclines, elevators, bathroom access, parking spaces, alarms, table heights, and more. These rules ensure that people with disabilities have access to their community, and gives them a legal recourse if they encounter unnecessary barriers. You can visit the official ADA guidelines website to learn more.

How is Goodwill Industries of Southern Ohio making the world more accessible?
Our locations across Ohio and Kentucky are directly responding to the needs of their communities to break down barriers to rights like employment, community access, housing, transportation, technology and more.

We assist several people annually in bridging the employment gap in the disability community through our employment and training program located at 324 Chillicothe Street Portsmouth, Ohio 45662.

All Our Locations:
Accessible entrances
Accessible Parking
Accessible emergency exits
Workforce Development Center:  Accessible route to and from public entrance and offices. Visual (strobe lights) alarms.
Services animals are welcome at all locations.
No Public Restrooms

We Welcome Feedback:
Goodwill Industries of Southern Ohio website may contain material from social media sites such as google.com/maps, kcc.ky.gov, ood.ohio.go, Facebook and Youtube, which are used to share additional content about our property, facilities and services. These third-party sites may have accessibility issues that are beyond our control. We invite you to review further public accessibility information directly from Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Instagram.

From a digitally-accessible website to complete descriptions of all onsite amenities and features, we wish to provide a positive experience from start to finish. Please note that this accessibility statement applies to all content on the goodwillsouthernohio.org website. Pacer's Italian Cuisine & Steakery is not responsible for any third-party content on the website.

Any questions about accessibility or feedback email contact: humanresources01@frontier.com