ColombiaTransparency Law, differential accessibility criterion for the information published by the obligated subjects, and accessible electronic media
Ley 1712 de 2014, arts. 5 y 8, y Decreto 1081 de 2015, arts. 2.1.1.1.2, 2.1.1.2.2.1 y 2.1.1.2.2.2
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
As of .
What it requires
- If you are a private person that provides a public service, or a political party or movement or a significant group of citizens, publish the related public information in the languages of the communities when their authorities ask, and prepare alternative formats those groups can understand (Ley 1712 de 2014, Art. 8).
- Adapt the media through which you communicate that information so that they make access easier for persons in a situation of disability (Art. 8).
- Make every electronic communication medium you use to disclose that information meet the accessibility directives that the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies issues (Decreto 1081 de 2015, Art. 2.1.1.2.2.2).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Ministerio Público (Procuraduría General de la Nación), which Article 23 of Ley 1712 de 2014 charges with overseeing compliance with the obligations that Law sets
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which of the Article 8 duties bind a private subject without a request from a community, given that the request condition is written into the sentence on languages and alternative formats?
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
Under paragraph 1 of Article 5, private natural or legal persons that are users of public information are not obligated subjects. Article 5 also obligates public entities and independent State bodies (literals a and b), persons that perform a public function or exercise public authority (literals c and d), entities that administer parafiscal institutions, funds or resources of public origin (literal f), and persons that receive or intermediate public funds (last paragraph); those duties are covered on law.ungovr.org in the public-sector accessibility entry for Colombia.
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- a private natural or legal person that provides public services, with respect to the information directly related to the provision of the public service ("respecto de la información directamente relacionada con la prestación del servicio público", Ley 1712 de 2014, Article 5(c)), attending to the special rules that regulate each sector ("atendiendo las reglas especiales que regulan cada sector", Decreto 1081 de 2015, Article 2.1.1.1.2, paragraph)
- a political party or movement, or a significant group of citizens (Ley 1712 de 2014, Article 5(e))
What this law does
Article 5(c) of Ley 1712 de 2014 binds natural and legal persons, public or private, that provide public services, with respect to the information directly related to the service. Article 5(e) binds political parties and movements and significant groups of citizens.
Article 2.1.1.1.2 of Decreto 1081 de 2015 applies its Title to the subjects in literals c, d and f and the last paragraph of Article 5 with respect to the information related to the public function or service they provide, or the public funds they receive, intermediate or administer. Article 8 requires the obligated subjects, at the request of the authorities of the communities, to publish public information in diverse languages and to prepare alternative formats those groups can understand.
Article 8 also requires the communication media to be adapted so that persons in a situation of disability can access that information. Article 2.1.1.2.2.1 of the Decree understands by alternative format the form, size or mode in which the information is presented for ethnic and cultural groups and for persons in a situation of disability.
Article 2.1.1.2.2.2 of the Decree requires all electronic communication media used to disclose the information to meet the accessibility directives that the Ministry of Information and Communications Technologies issues.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app ships a consumer interface.