Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 260 - Office of Management and Enterprise Services › Chapter 15 - Accessibility of Information Technology › Section 260:15-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
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]
Added at 23 Ok Reg 3162, eff 9-8-05 through 7-14-06
				  (emergency) 
				  1 ; 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
1 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.