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Usability Compliance
Website Accessibility
Published by the Government
Information Technology Agency
State of Arizona Statewide Policy P130
Draft
1. Authority
The Government Information Technology
Agency (GITA) shall develop, implement and maintain a
coordinated statewide plan for information technology (A.R.S.
§41-3504(A (1))), including, the adoption of statewide
technical, coordination, and IT Policy and Standards (A.R.S.
§ 41-3504(A (1(a)))).
2. Purpose
To establish a statewide policy that lowers the
technical barriers to accessibility on Arizona web sites
for persons with disabilities.
3. Scope
This applies to all budget units. Budget unit is
defined as a department, commission, board, institution or
other agency of the state organization receiving,
expending or disbursing state funds or incurring
obligations of the state including the board of regents
and the state board of directors for community colleges
but excluding the universities under the jurisdiction of
the board of regents and the community colleges under
their respective jurisdictions and the legislative or
judicial branches. A.R.S. § 41-3501(2).
The Budget Unit Chief Executive Officer (CEO), working
in conjunction with the Budget Unit Chief Information
Officer (CIO), shall be responsible for ensuring the
effective implementation of Statewide Information
Technology PSPs within each Agency.
4. Policy
To provide an accessibility model in which web content
authors, format designers, and software developers within
State agencies understand their roles in providing persons
with disabilities, access to existing and developing State
web sites. The following web page designs and features for
completing the accessibility model are to be addressed for
all State web sites.
4.1 GRAPHICS Simple images; linked images; content
images; graphical text; ASCII Art; list bullets; spacer
images; animated graphics-text equivalent; animated
graphics-frame rate.
4.2 INFORMATION IN COLOR Information in color; color
contrast.
4.3 MOVING CONTENT Static background color; moving
text.
4.4 DOWNLOADABLE FILES Graphics in downloadable files;
PDF files.
4.5 REPETITIVE CONTENT Skipping navigation links.
4.6 DATA TABLES Identifying row and column headers;
using SCOPE to group table cells.
4.7 MULTIMEDIA Sounds 10; speech-short clips (up to 60
seconds); speech-long clips; video-short clips (up to 10
seconds); video-long clips.
4.8 IMAGE MAPS Image map graphics-text equivalent;
client-side image map regions; server-side image map
regions.
4.9 STYLE SHEETS Style sheets.
4.10 FORMS Forms-label placement; forms-associating
labels and controls; forms-time responses.
4.11 SCRIPTS Scripts-text equivalents; scripts-keyboard
accessibility.
4.12 APPLETS and PLUG-INS Applets and plug-ins-links;
applets and plug-ins-text equivalent information or
functionality.
4.13 FRAMES Frames-labeling; frames-NOFRAMES elements.
4.14 KEYBOARD CONTROL Keyboard control.
4.15 TEXT-ONLY PAGES Text-only versions.
4.16 BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION Alternative
identification.
4.17 EQUIVALENT FACILITATION Equivalent access.
5.0 RESPONSIBILITY
It is the responsibility of each agency to remain
current with the development of accessible information
technology through their ADA/508 Coordinators.
6.0 KNOWN LIMITATIONS OF THIS
POLICY
Individuals with (or without) disabilities access the
Web with widely varying sets of capabilities, software,
and hardware. While this policy does provide the ability
for individuals with disabilities to access Web based
information, this policy does not include requirements for
the production of every known accessibility need, due to
known limitations on existing technology. The limitations
of this policy, at this time, are as follows:
6.1 Braille - this policy does not address Braille
rendering.
6.2 Synthesized Speech - not covered by this policy.
6.3 Input Modalities - no voice input, only keyboard
and pointing devices.
7.0 REFERENCES
7.1 Developmental
7.1.1 A. R. S. § 41-621 et seq., "Purchase of
Insurance; coverage; limitations, exclusions;
definitions".
7.1.2 A. R. S. § 41-1335 ((A (6 & 7))), "State Agency
Information".
7.1.3 A. R. S. § 41-1339 (A), "Depository of State
Archives".
7.1.4 A. R. S. § 41-1461, "Definitions".
7.1.5 A. R. S. § 41-1463, "Discrimination; unlawful
practices; definition".
7.1.6 A. R. S. § 41-1492 et seq., "Prohibition of
Discrimination by Public Entities".
7.1.7 A. R. S. § 41-2501 et seq., "Arizona Procurement
Codes, Applicability".
7.1.8 A. R. S. § 41-3501, "Definitions".
7.1.9 A. R. S. § 41-3504, "Powers and Duties of the
Agency".
7.1.10 A. R. S. § 41-3521, "Information Technology
Authorization Committee; members; terms; duties;
compensation; definition".
7.1.11 A. R. S. § 44-7041, "Governmental Electronic
Records".
7.1.12 Arizona Administrative Code, Title 2, Chapter 7.
7.1.13 Arizona Administrative Code, Title 2, Chapter
10.
7.1.14 Arizona Administrative Code, Title 2, Chapter
18.
7.1.15 Statewide Information Technology Policy P100.
7.1.16 Digital Millennium Copyright Act (1998).
7.1.17 Title 17 United States Code.
7.1.18 Title 18 United States Code § 2319 & 2320.
7.1.19 Federal Rehabilitation Act, Section 508.
7.1.20 State of Arizona Technology Related Assistance
for Individuals with Disabilities Act, Section 103. | 
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