West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 148 - Administration › Title 148 - LEGISLATIVE RULE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION › Series 148-15 - Technology Access For Visually Impaired › Section 148-15-3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
3.1. Definitions.
(a) "State Agency" means any State department
				or agency.
(b) "Alternate formats"
				means formats usable by people with disabilities; may include, but are not
				limited to, Braille, ASCII text, large print, recorded audio, and electronic
				formats that comply with the rule.
(c) "Alternate methods" means different means
				of providing information, including product documentation, to people with
				disabilities. Alternate methods may include, but are not limited to, voice,
				fax, relay service, TTY, Internet posting, captioning, text-to-speech
				synthesis, and audio description.
(d) "Assistive technology" means any item,
				piece of equipment, or system, whether acquired commercially, modified, or
				customized, that is commonly used to increase, maintain, or improve functional
				capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
(e) "Electronic technology" means any
				equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment, that is used in
				the creation, conversion, or duplication of data or information. The term
				electronic technology includes, but is not limited to, telecommunications
				products such as telephones, information kiosks and transaction machines, World
				Wide Web sites, multimedia, and office equipment such as copiers and fax
				machines. The term does not include any equipment that contains embedded
				information technology that is used as an integral part of the product, but the
				principal function of which is not the acquisition, storage, manipulation,
				management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission,
				or reception of data or information. For example, HVAC (heating, ventilation,
				and air conditioning) equipment such as thermostats or temperature control
				devices, and medical equipment where information technology is integral to its
				operation, are not information technology.
(f) "Information technology" means data
				processing and telecommunications hardware, software, services, supplies,
				personnel, maintenance and training, and includes the programs and routines
				used to employ and control the capabilities of data processing hardware. It
				also includes any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment,
				that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management,
				movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception
				of data or information. The term information technology includes computers,
				ancillary equipment, software, firmware and similar procedures, services,
				including support service, and related resources.
(g) "Operable controls" means components of a
				product that requires physical contact for normal operation. Operable controls
				include, but are not limited to, mechanically operated controls, input and
				output trays, card slots, keyboards, or keypads.
(h) "Self Contained, Closed Products" means
				products that generally have embedded software and are commonly designed in
				such a fashion that a user cannot easily attach or install assistive
				technology. These products include, but are not limited to, information kiosks
				and information transaction machines, copiers, printers, calculators, fax
				machines, and other similar types of products.
(i) "Telecommunications" means any
				transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, writings, images or
				sounds of intelligence of any nature by wire, radio or other electromagnetic or
				optical systems. The term includes all facilities and equipment performing
				those functions that are owned, leased or used by the executive agencies of
				state government. The term also includes the transmission, between or among
				points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without
				change in the form or content of the information as sent and
				received.
(j) "Undue burden" means
				significant difficulty or expense. In determining whether an action would
				result in an undue burden, an agency shall consider all agency resources
				available to the program or component for which the product is being developed,
				procured, maintained, or used.
(k)
				"ASCII" (American Standard Code for Information Exchange) means a 7-bit code
				providing 128 character combinations. ASCII is a data processing term to
				describe a specific format for the data.
(l) "TTY or TDD" means a communication
				devices that function as text telephones, used by hearing-impaired or
				speech-impaired, to communicate over regular telephone lines.
(m) "DVD" means a digital video
				disk.