Arizona Department of Administration Statewide Policy 1300: accessibility of electronic or information technology

Statewide Policy 1300 of the Arizona Department of Administration provides that all State of Arizona electronic or information technology shall be accessible to people with disabilities. Each budget unit must adopt a standard for its electronic or information technology systems that complies with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, and for websites and online applications it may use the latest version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines at levels A and AA.

All electronic or information technology systems under a budget unit's control or management must be regularly tested for accessibility using an industry-accepted tool. The policy applies to all budget units and to IT integrations and data exchange with third parties that perform IT functions, activities or services for or on behalf of budget units, and its applicability to a third party is governed by the contract between the budget unit and that party.

A budget unit need not include Braille, synthesized speech production or voice input in its websites, and need not enforce the policy for third-party systems, the intranet, the internet or an extranet outside its control. The Department issues the policy under section 18-104 of the Arizona Revised Statutes, and the policy states its purpose as compliance with section 18-132 and rules R2-18-101 to R2-18-503. Revision 2.0 of the policy took effect on May 19, 2021.