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Accessibility at APS

Albuquerque Public Schools is committed to supporting an environment that is accessible to all members of the public. This includes individuals with disabilities, users of assistive devices, and the APS community.

APS Non-Discrimination Statement

The Albuquerque Public School system does not discriminate nor condone discrimination by students, employees, or third parties on the basis of age (40+), color, ethnicity, gender identity, genetic information, HIV status, mental or physical disability, national origin, natural or protective hairstyles or cultural or religious headdresses, pregnancy/lactation, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation, spousal affiliation, serious medical condition, or veteran status in any program or activity of, or sponsored by, the school district and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

Accessibility Quick Links

Requesting Accommodations

APS wants everyone to have access to our programs, facilities, and activities! If you need an accommodation to participate in any aspect of APS, please contact the following:

  • As an Employee: Fill out and submit the ADA Employee Request for Accommodation Form online.
  • As an Applicant: Applicants who need assistance or accommodations due to a disability throughout the application process, should contact the APS ADA Coordinator. 
  • As a Student or Prospective Student: Student accommodations are first created in conjunction with their school or prospective school. Students or parents/guardians can contact their school’s principal in order to discuss needed accommodations to ensure the student has access to all the programs, facilities, and activities of the school. If needed, develop a Section 504 Plan or Individual Education Plan, as appropriate, to identify needed reasonable accommodations.
  •  As a Family Member or Visitor: Contact the school or department where you will be visiting, and advise them of the needed accommodations. If you are unsure of which school or department to contact, please contact APS via Let’s Talk in order for us to connect you to the appropriate school or department. For specific Board of Education meetings or events, please use the APS Board of Education's Meeting Accessibility Request form.

Requesting Translation or Interpretation

Family members needing interpretation in order to attend essential school or district functions or events concerning their children, should contact their student’s school and request interpretation services. APS employees can fill out an interpretation or translation request to meet their families’ language needs.

Interpretation for Deaf and/or Hearing Impaired Persons

Persons who are deaf and/or hearing impaired may contact an Interpreter to obtain sign language services: Richard Harrid - (505) 253-0310 ext. 67202 or
Please contact the above as soon as you are aware of your needs. Requests for interpreters must be made at least 48 hours in advance of the event.

Service Animals

Service animals are permitted in APS facilities and may be used in school environments and for off-campus school activities. Community members may have their service animal with them throughout APS anywhere that community member is allowed to be. A service animal is an animal that has been trained to perform specific tasks or work for an individual with a disability.

Students seeking to use service animals should develop a Section 504 Plan or Individual Education Plan, as appropriate, to identify needed reasonable accommodations and other issues relating to use of a service animal. Students and their parents/guardians should contact their school’s 504 Coordinator to start the process.

APS employees must work through the ADA Coordinator to develop and plan and identify reasonable accommodations relating to use of a service animal.

Web Accessibility

Web Accessibility Notice

The website is the work of many authors and is a dynamic environment. There is the possibility that accessibility difficulties may be encountered. We are continually seeking solutions that will bring all areas of the website up to the same level of overall accessibility. We aim to provide equal access to our websites to the extent that doing so does not impose an undue burden or fundamental alteration.

What We Are Doing

We are updating our website to bring it into compliance with the W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. The measures we are taking include the following:

  • Utilizing accessibility tools with the Finalsite content management system to ensure school websites meet WCAG standards. 
  • Organizing content and using section headings.
  • Adding alternative text for images.
  • Making link text descriptive.
  • Providing ongoing accessibility training to content contributors.
  • Conducting quality assurance checks to ensure we are making continuous progress toward compliance.
  • Addressing site template functionality by including skip link navigation, aria landmarks and focus states.

Most of our site’s content is provided in HTML. Many longer documents are published in the Portable Document Format (PDF). These can be viewed or accessed with the latest version of the Adobe Acrobat Reader. (No endorsement is implied.)

Share Your Feedback

We welcome feedback from all users of our website. If you have any concerns or ideas that would help us improve accessibility, please contact us by filling out the Web Content Accessibility Support Form, or by sending an email to accessibility@aps.edu.

To help us respond in a manner most helpful to you, please include a description of the problem, the web address of the requested material, your preferred format in which you want to receive the material (electronic format, standard print, large print) and your contact information (name, email, telephone, and physical mailing address.)

References

Contacts and Complaints

View Section 504 and Equal Opportunity Services/Title IX contacts as listed by department on the APS Non-Discrimination information page.

To file a complaint, go to the Equal Opportunity Services Complaint Process.