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Oklahoma state agency accessibility of information technology for individuals with disabilities, with the Section 508 standards and the contract accessibility clause
Okla. Stat. tit. 62, Sec. 34.28
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding government bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
- Obligation class
- Governance
- Conformance standard
- US Section 508 standards
What it requires
- If you are a state agency, a term that includes the State Regents for Higher Education, the institutions and constituent agencies of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, the State Board of Career and Technology Education and Technology Center school districts, ensure when developing, procuring, maintaining or using information technology, or administering contracts or grants that include its procurement, development, upgrading or replacement, that the technology gives employees, program participants and members of the general public access to information and data comparable to the access of individuals without disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency (62 O.S. Sec. 34.28(B); the term state agency is defined in 62 O.S. Sec. 34.29).
- Submit evidence of assurance of compliance with the state's information technology accessibility standards when the Information Services Division requires it (62 O.S. Sec. 34.28(C)(9)).
- If you are the Information Services Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, adopt accessibility standards for every Section 508 technical standard category and an accessibility clause for all contracts for the procurement of information technology by or for state agencies, review custom-designed systems before state funds are spent, and establish complaint procedures (62 O.S. Sec. 34.28(C)(1) to (3) and (7)).
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What this law does
Section 34.28 of Title 62 charges the Information Services Division of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services with working to assure state compliance regarding accessibility of information technology for individuals with disabilities, based on Section 508.
When developing, procuring, maintaining or using information technology, or administering contracts or grants that include its procurement, development, upgrading or replacement, each state agency must ensure, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency, that the technology gives employees, program participants and members of the general public access to information and data comparable to the access of individuals without disabilities.
A state agency is any office, officer, bureau, board, counsel, court, commission, institution, unit, division, body or house of the executive or judicial branches of state government, excluding political subdivisions of the state, and it includes the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the institutions, centers or other constituent agencies of The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education, the State Board of Career and Technology Education and Technology Center school districts.
The Information Services Division must adopt accessibility standards that address all technical standard categories of Section 508, to be used by each state agency in procuring information technology and in developing and implementing custom-designed information technology systems, Web sites and other emerging information technology systems.
The Division must adopt an accessibility clause that is included in all contracts for the procurement of information technology by or for the use of state agencies. The Division must establish and implement a review procedure to evaluate the accessibility of custom-designed information technology systems proposed by a state agency before state funds are spent.
The Division must also review and evaluate the accessibility of information technology commonly purchased by state agencies and provide accessibility reports on those products to those responsible for purchasing decisions. The Division must establish complaint procedures for an individual who alleges that a state agency fails to comply with the section. The Division must require state agencies to submit evidence of assurance of compliance with the state standards.
The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services must promulgate rules, as necessary, to implement the section. The section was enacted by House Bill 2197 of 2004 with an emergency effective date of . It was amended in 2005, 2009, 2012 and 2013 and renumbered from section 41.5t of Title 62 in 2009.
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