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Hawaii
Digital accessibility in public accommodations: inaccessible information and communication technology (Act 257 of 2026)
In force since .
A disability discrimination rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Governance
What it requires
- If you operate a place of public accommodation, do not deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of your goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations, or information related to them, by requiring the use of information and communication technology that is inaccessible to the person (Haw. Rev. Stat. section 489-5(c)).
- Comply with the rules the civil rights commission adopts to implement that prohibition, which must be consistent with the Department of Justice Title II web accessibility framework as in effect on (new section of chapter 489, subsections (a) to (c)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
Act 257 of 2026 makes it a discriminatory practice to deny a person with a disability full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages or accommodations of a place of public accommodation, or information related to them, by requiring the use of information and communication technology that is inaccessible to the person. The civil rights commission must adopt rules under chapter 91 to implement that prohibition.
The rules must be consistent with the web accessibility framework of the Department of Justice Title II final rule, as in effect on . A violation of the rules is an unlawful discriminatory practice under chapter 489, subject to all remedies available under the chapter. The governor signed Act 257 on . Act 257 takes effect upon its approval.
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