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 Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021)
 TITLE 260. Office of Management and Enterprise Services
 Chapter 15. Accessibility of Information Technology

  SECTION 260:15-1-2. Definitions  

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  •   The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter, shall have the following meaning unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
    "Accessibility" means compliance with nationally accepted accessibility and usability standards, such as those established in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220), August 7, 1998;
    "Appointing authority" means the chief administrative officer of an agency. As the term is used in this chapter, the term includes employees of an agency to whom the Appointing Authority has lawfully delegated authority to act on his or her behalf.
    "Director" means the Director of the agency.
    "Individual with Disabilities" means any individual who is considered to have a disability or handicap for the purposes of any Federal or Oklahoma law.
    "Information Technology" or "IT" means equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment that is used in the acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, telecommunications, or reception of data or information. The term shall include computers, ancillary equipment, software, firmware, and similar procedures, services, including support services and consulting services, software development, and related resources.
    "Oklahoma Information Technology Accessibility Standards" or "IT Accessibility Standards" or "Standards" means the accessibility standards adopted by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services (OMES) to address all technical standard categories based on the provisions of Section 508 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, which are to be used by each state agency in the procurement of information technology, and in the development and implementation of custom-designed information technology systems, websites, and other emerging information technology systems.
    "Section 508" means Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d), as amended by the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220), August 7, 1998.
    "State agency" means any office, officer, bureau, board, counsel, court, commission, institution, unit, division, body or house of the executive or judicial branches of the state government, whether elected or appointed, excluding political subdivisions of the state. State agency shall include 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. [62 O.S., Section 34.28]
[Source: Added at 23 Ok Reg 3162, eff 9-8-05 through 7-14-06 (emergency); Added at 23 Ok Reg 3211, eff 9-11-06; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 2367, eff 9-11-11; Amended at 30 Ok Reg 1113, eff 7-1-13; Amended at 32 Ok Reg 1749, eff 9-11-15]

Note

EDITOR’S NOTE: This emergency action expired before being superseded by a permanent action. Upon expiration of an emergency action enacting a new Section, the text of the Section is no longer effective. Therefore, on 7-15-06 (after the 7-14-06 expiration of the emergency action), the text of Section 260:15-1-2 was no longer effective, and remained as such until added by permanent action on 9-11-06.