Law / United States / 
New York
Website accessibility: state agencies
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Governance, Disclosure
What it requires
- If you are a New York State agency, conform any of your websites that are created or modified with changes to form or function after the section took effect to the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, level AA, or any successor standards, by , to the extent practicable (State Tech. Law 103-d).
- If you cannot comply by , post publicly on your website a written progress report describing with specificity the steps taken to comply, the impediments that prevented compliance, the efforts undertaken to come into compliance and an estimated time frame for compliance, and update the report annually from the original posting (State Tech. Law 103-d).
- The section does not require an agency to take any action that would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of a service, program, or activity (State Tech. Law 103-d).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
What this law does
State Technology Law section 103-d requires each state agency, to the extent practicable, to conform websites created or modified with changes to form or function to the most current version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, level AA, by . An agency that cannot comply by that date must post a written progress report on its website describing the steps it has taken, the impediments, its efforts and an estimated time frame, and update the report annually.
The section does not require an agency to take any action that would result in a fundamental alteration in the nature of a service, program, or activity. The section defines changes to form or function as modifications to the visual presentation, informational organization, website infrastructure, or user utility of a website, including redesigns of site layout, color schemes, graphics, branding elements or other aesthetic components, and the integration of dynamic interfaces.
The governor signed the act that added the section as chapter 734 of the Laws of 2023 on . A chapter amendment clarified the compliance standards and requires full compliance by . The governor signed that amendment as chapter 42 of the Laws of 2024 on , to take effect on the same date and in the same manner as the 2023 act. The act takes effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it became a law.
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