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25-26-203. Assurance of nonvisual access.
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25-26-203. Assurance of nonvisual access.
In general, the head of each covered entity shall ensure that information technology equipment and software used by employees, program participants, or members of the general public:
(1) Provide blind or visually impaired individuals with access, to the extent provided in this subchapter, to interactive use of the equipment and services that is equivalent to that provided to individuals who are not blind or visually impaired;
(2) Are designed to present information, including, but not limited to, prompts used for interactive communications in formats intended for both visual and nonvisual use; and
(3) Have been purchased under a contract which includes the technology access clause required pursuant to § 25-26-204.
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-26-203
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25-26-203. Assurance of nonvisual access.
In general, the head of each covered entity shall ensure that information technology equipment and software used by employees, program participants, or members of the general public:
(1) Provide blind or visually impaired individuals with access, to the extent provided in this subchapter, to interactive use of the equipment and services that is equivalent to that provided to individuals who are not blind or visually impaired;
(2) Are designed to present information, including, but not limited to, prompts used for interactive communications in formats intended for both visual and nonvisual use; and
(3) Have been purchased under a contract which includes the technology access clause required pursuant to § 25-26-204.
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25-26-204. Procurement requirements.
(a)(1) The technology access clause specified in § 25-26-203 shall be developed by the Division of Information Systems and shall require compliance with nonvisual access standards established by the division.
(2) The technology access clause shall be included in all contracts for the procurement of information technology by or for the use of entities covered by this subchapter on or after July 30, 1999.
(b) The nonvisual access standards established by the division under subsection (a) of this section shall:
(1) Include the specifications necessary to fulfill the assurances in § 25-26-203;
(2) Follow the standards for software applications and operating systems provided by 36 C.F.R. § 1194.21, as it existed on January 1, 2019, subject to the provisions of 36 C.F.R. §§ 1194.1 — 1194.4, as they existed on January 1, 2019;
(3) Follow the standards for web-based intranet and internet information and applications provided by 36 C.F.R. § 1194.22, as it existed on January 1, 2019, subject to the provisions of 36 C.F.R. §§ 1194.1 — 1194.4, as they existed on January 1, 2019; and
(4) Include the following minimum specifications:
(A) That, to the extent provided in this subchapter, effective, interactive control and use of the technology, including without limitation the operating system, software applications , and format of the data presented is readily achievable by nonvisual means;
(B) That, to the extent provided in this subchapter, the technology equipped for nonvisual access is compatible with information technology used by other individuals with whom the blind or visually impaired individual interacts;
(C) That, to the extent provided in this subchapter, nonvisual access technology is integrated into networks used t
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 25-26-204
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 25-26-204. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.