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Northern Mariana Islands
Northern Marianas College Board of Regents Policy 8007: digital content the College creates or obtains must be accessible to persons with disabilities
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance
What it requires
- If you are the Northern Marianas College, make the digital content you create or obtain and disseminate by electronic means accessible to persons with disabilities, including web pages, web-based applications, electronic documents and multimedia, and the third-party applications used to create or disseminate digital content, such as web-based content creation tools, textbook supplemental materials and mobile applications (Board Policy 8007).
- Bring digital content and resources created or obtained before into compliance, or remove them from publication (Board Policy 8007).
- Where an exception for undue burden or non-availability is granted, make every effort to address the defects, and still make reasonable accommodations on request so that users can reach the digital content in an equally effective and accessible alternative manner (Board Policy 8007).
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What this law does
Board of Regents Policy 8007 requires all digital content created or obtained by the Northern Marianas College, such as documents, images and videos disseminated by electronic means, to be made accessible to persons with disability, subject to the exceptions the policy states.
The policy applies to all digital content acquired, developed, distributed, used, purchased or implemented by or for the College and used within teaching, learning, research, service, employment and other official functions of the College.
It covers web pages, web-based applications, electronic documents and multimedia created or obtained after its effective date, and third-party applications used to create or disseminate digital content, such as web-based content creation, textbook supplemental materials and mobile applications. Digital content and resources created or obtained before the policy's effective date must be brought into compliance or removed from publication.
Limited exceptions for undue burden and non-availability may be granted where compliance is not technically possible or is unreasonably expensive or difficult, and an exemption does not relieve the College of its legal obligation to make reasonable accommodations to users on request in an equally effective and accessible alternative manner. The policy took effect on .
Section 1316(e) of title 3 of the Commonwealth Code directs the Board of Regents to adopt, amend and repeal policies governing the conduct of its business and the performance of the powers and duties granted to or imposed upon it by law or the Constitution. The Northern Marianas College is established as a nonprofit public corporation under the general control and direction of the Board of Regents.
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